I always look out for your comments Casper because they are so unique but I have come to the conclusion that I am just dumb! Because I barely ever understand a word of them, and just when I think I'm starting to get it then I don't.. Lol... Think maybe its coz I use simple words and ure very smart and know alot! Anyway--- first I had no idea it was possible for agave to go off, but I guess it would never last that long in my house, I use a jar every week almost! Two weeks perhaps. And on a personal note again, and I know we cannot be perfect at everything but if I know I'm causing severe harm and pain to someone (eg bee) then I don't see why eating the product it's put in pain for is worth it, and for honey? Pfft I used to love it but sooooo not worth it. And yes an individual choice but agave IS a good sweetner, perhaps try it and decide for yourselfand don't just listen to us rant on about it being good and bad on Here

. Have a nice happy day all xoxo
ty, i'm terrible with compliments.
me neither about agave... but it was water+just opened tea bags+ agave... I felt errk and it just made sense, being the agave I donated to the reading room.. being unused for too long
yeah, I wasn't being critical of any individual... its' good that you can make the distinction AND act upon it :3 it is a really good thing
but there is my confusion when you lead into saying 'when you know it is causing severe harm'...
to talk about it literally.. in the contexts of common knowledge...
Humans havn't even for one recognized insects to feel pain (not talking terms of opinion)...
which is infuriating... BUT ... on a more humble note... with this great step of understanding not having been accepted by many people... is it known and how... that 'severe harm or pain' is being caused upon honey bees by collecting their honey.
Maybe my ideas are too romantic or .. archaic rather of the methods...
But yeah that is gross that people... I won't call them human.. because these actions are often in the mind set and states personal individuals cause rather than when they are instinctively being human...
..sorry.. gross that people would even try to replicate let alone brashly replace bee food... with sugar or some naive formula...
obviously they take way too much ...
but again... rational gets me... I can't see this being entirely true... because if this was happening to the bee populations keepers hive... ... they would be doing a dis-service to their OWN business. if the next generation of bees were suffering... there would be no prospect of such a business or practice being viable or sustainable.
No bee keeper would let that happen? Let alone cause it..
though not much in Humanity suprises me Esp taking little notice of rhetoric.
I'm not sure about wild aust honey bees.. all I know is that the european bee threat is so great... most the grass roots bee industry is trying to stop the infestation/spread. Last I heard they gave up on erradication.
This is a funny topic for me...
Considering I spend so much time in fasination with bees, or waiting 45mins sometimes on one flower to get a photo I think does justice to them.
It wouldn't be hard/difficult for me to stop using honey... as mentioned, I don't enjoy food. But to me at the moment based on all information I have... inc school camps and travelling around australia as a child.. and visiting a bee farm and honey factory...
To me it is still a benign comodity, in my mind.
Here are a couple of my latest shots:
http://sta.sh/0t5cc18vkvq
http://sta.sh/02b8z16u0z8t
older two:
http://sta.sh/09hk06tl2tq
http://sta.sh/0himw84o8nq
I'm terrible at choosing, so will just put the shiny ones.
Will finish putting together Gifs and share them if anyone is interested.
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Bees,
They are very busy, diligent and mind their own activity.
I can stand there for an hour... inches from a flower...
With their flight paths being demanding, like a butterfly,
trying to catch draft just to leave your yard.
They speed off in strict arks and so don't like you being in their way,
but will find ways around and go about working, taking your presence into account.
But when the sun is setting, they will buzz loudly, to let you know,
they have no time for patience as they hastily rush from flower to flower.
Their balance and agility is tested by their driving force, of impeding earth'shadow.
SO they are grumpy at the end of the day, but still won't sting you,
as they aren't buzzing because you're a threat, but just letting your senses know,
where they are, so that you can keep clear as they face the danger,
of the ever tightening, closing flowers for the night or fall.
I love to keep out of the way,
but I also like to get in close and be out of the way.
Notice the way I breathe is differently and if I falter,
or day dream, one will zoom, keeping me at my desired task.
p.s. nectar is vomit from a flower,
bees collect, compose and process it into an edible mass.
Vomit? Like kissing a love whose been suckling flower nectar all day...
is a little different from the sort of thing you encouter on any given 'night out'...
which is fully acceptible in this society. Some how.
I'd feel like a pervert kissing flowers all day,
bees make it more practicle, even if giving more room for discretionary revolt.
One of the funniest notions i've heard...
the sort of thing, if I ever found myself in a serious situation,
I can imagine myself bursting out with an intangible,
in-explicable laughter.
That Bee Pollen people use as a remidy,
is Pollen.. not collected by people with implements....
But dusted off... of individual bees, ONE at a Time.
It makes me cry giggling at the human folly...
that people can't A. collect pollen themselves,
B. make a bee go out busily, then dust the Pollen off...
C. the most bizare string of thoughts follow.
It is too funny to contemplate this as a reality.
Of course it could easily be taken seriously..
but Wow.