arundhati roy is an Indian leftist activist and author, and this is a criticism of Gandhi and Gandhian politics. this context is important. she’s lived through the failure of gandhi-esque politics.
[ID: Tweet by M. @nuhhhnsense posted May 12, 2021. It reads: “Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.” -Arundhati Roy. This quote knocked like 16 years of liberal pacifism out of me in one go. /End ID]
If that’s too much, the most important thing to highlight is below
If you’re an estranged adult child and you’re looking for a way to get your parents to hear what the problem is, I’m sorry, but you have your answer already. They don’t want to know. They may be incapable of knowing. There are no magic words that will penetrate their defenses.
The good news is that you’re free. You can stop now. If you need permission, I’ll give it to you: You are hereby allowed to stop trying to get through to your willfully deaf parents.
Okay, so I might get a lot of hate for this, I might not. I don’t particularly care either way, as long as word gets out about this, because it’s extremely important to me.
As I’m sure most people know by now, bees are disappearing at alarming rates. Simply put, our entire species could not survive without them. This is due to a syndrome called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
On the other hand, beekeepers are essential to increasing bee populations. They monitor the bees’ health and help protect them from dangerous parasites and pesticides that are suspected to cause CCD. In addition, well-kept bees never need to use the amount of honey they produce; Honey is made by the bees to consume only when there is not enough food for them outside the hive. In the care of a good beekeeper, this will only happen during the winter months, and the keeper will leave enough honey for the bees to thrive until it’s spring again.
It’s best to buy local, organic honey if at all possible. Local beekeepers will not use dangerous factory-farming methods, and it helps maintain your local bee population! If you want to help bees in a more active way than buying local honey, you can plant a bee garden or even become a small-scale beekeeper! (I don’t have a link for this, it’s best to check out local resources. Maybe even ask the person selling honey at your farmer’s market!)
-eating honey alternatives is hurting animals -eating local ethical honey hurts literally no one and nothing -eating local ethical honey SAVES BEES
Please consider it
Eating local ethical honey will also benefit you a lot personally, because the pollen and plants around you are all sort of in the honey and if you i.e. Has pollen allergies they might actually go away, and if you don’t there’s a smaller risk you’ll get them. Other honey works as well of course but the local honey has the exact pollen that surrounds you in your every day life.
(Also some beekeepers gives the bees alternative food for the winter, I don’t think any beekeepers would let their bees starve)