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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
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I no longer endorse this post, which argued that honey is basically fine to eat ethically, to the degree that I chose to delete it entirely.
Protein/dairy tradeoffs/substitutions make more sense: honey/syrup/agave seem less necessary. For example, waffles, pancakes, french toast, etc still taste good without much of those, and honey/syrup/agave all seem too sugary to be healthy. Since they seem less necessary, your reasoning makes more sense to me as a case against honey alternatives rather than a case for honey