The heavily rumored Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2. Unfortunately Nintendo will probably find a way to screw it up.

No problem, it was great chatting!

Yeah it kind of blew my mind when I started looking into it. Pretty much everyone assumes that beekeeping is beneficial to the environment. There’s a rather famous quote among ecologists, “Conserving honeybees to save pollinators is like conserving chickens to save the birds.”

Most people, including myself consider honey to not be vegan. I’ll admit that it’s a lower moral priority for me, since insects very likely have a much lower capacity for sentience than mammals, birds and aquatic creatures. My specific issues with honey production are both moral and environmental:

• Artificial insemination typically requires the crushing of drones to extract semen.
• It’s pretty common practice to clip the wings of queens to keep them from leaving the hive.
• Transporting bees and hives increases the spread of diseases which can affect wild insects.
• Western Honeybees are invasive to many parts of the world, including the Americas.
• Studies have shown that Honeybees disrupt local plant/pollinator networks by outcompeting local pollinators.

This article goes into more detail: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/

Good question! On the surface, it may look like these cows are happily giving away their extra milk, until you consider the factors of the situation:

• Cows, like other mammals, produce milk to feed their offspring. Dairy cows need to be regularly impregnated, generally through artificial insemination, in order to keep up milk production.
• Since the newborn calves would otherwise drink their own mother’s milk (leaving less for the dairy industry), industry practice is to separate them as soon as possible. Dairy cows have been observed mourning their lost calves.
• Dairy cows have been selectively bred to produce much more milk than their closest natural ancestors. This results in higher rates of mastitis, as well as pain and discomfort from the sheer volume of milk production.

These cows are “freely” choosing to be milked because they’ve been bred to produce painful amounts, and they no longer have calves to drink it.

Because I want the flavor without the cruelty.

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I’ve been vegan almost 5 years and I can say pretty confidently that cheese isn’t overrated. It’s the one thing I miss since going vegan.

That being said, I’ll take mediocre vegan cheese over the real thing knowing the cruelty involved.