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Old 02-01-2012, 06:27 AM   #10
Saya
 
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Originally Posted by Fruitbat View Post
I don't get what is wrong with bees pollinating flowers and why that would be considered wrong by vegans. That is the function of a bee - to pollinate flowers. Bees live in hives. I'm pretty sure that a bee in a hive and a bee in the wild would do the same amount of pollinating in a day (dependant on flowers).
Bumblebees don't live in hives, that's honey bees. And there's 70 different wild polinators in Atlantic Canada aside from bumblebees. Domesticated bees carry more pathogens and have been found to make wild bees sick if they come in contact. I'd rather work against urban sprawl and deforestation to help protect wild bees (and other animals) than bother sick bees who have a terrible tendancy to drop dead randomly.
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