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With the use of agents to end insect pollination, there is
presumably going to be some way of ensuring flowering
plants
are still fertilised, and I've long imagined this would be
in the
form of small UAVs transferring gametes from flower to
flower. While they're doing this, they could gather
nectar and store it in central depots, thereby enabling
the production of vegan honey. This has the extra
appeal of
providing ethical honey to precisely the demographic
which is
likely to be most disgruntled at the extinction of the
bees.
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I will be one of the disgruntled brand, when the bees go bye-
bye. So I give you a sticky, golden, +, to go with your
thoughtful and proactive idea. |
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Vegans perplex me. I wonder if there is really money to be made selling stuff to vegans. There is money to be made selling kosher stuff, because people other than those who keep kosher perceive kosher to be higher quality. I understand kosher products command a premium in China. I bet more people buy vegan than are vegan. |
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The thing here is to work on "Vegan" as an orthodox label under central control of people poised to make money from it. For example, have vegan grand poobahs (not sure what the equivalent of rabbi is for vegans) certify products as Vegan with a circle V. |
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Finally I think cheaper "vegan honey" could be made of some mix of sweet tree saps. Cheaper to produce; one would want to sell this at a premium of course. |
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You'd need to find a synthetic equivalent of the gunk
inside a bee's stomach, since honey is basically
concentrated bee-vomit. |
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Also, a UAV capable of doing all this would require
approximately bee-like levels of AI. Therefore, it
would be unfair to treat it as a non-bee.
Therefurther, what it produced could not be
considered vegan. |
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//Unless you saw the undercover footage which makes
some places much
much worse than standard abattoirs.// |
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Haven't you heard? You just have to stick a label on
a product saying it doesn't contain something and
suddenly it's more attractive.
For example some people[1] think 'gluten free' is
healthier - and even think
it's better for body builders,
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[1] who are not suffering from Celiac disease |
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You could always add gluten to the product but not
charge extra for it, and put a big "Gluten Free"
sticker on it. |
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Perhaps a product that contains all known allergens
could be advertised as "Free free". |
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That's nothing. You have no idea how gutted my wife
was when she found herself at a film about releasing
an orca from captivity. |
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I never even thought normal honey might not have been
vegan - I thought it was a sillyness, but not so, apparently. |
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So vegans won't even eat carnivorous plants ? |
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... but presumably carnivorous plants would eat vegans, given the
chance; a most delicious irony. |
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