Why vegans don't eat honey

Patricia Soldan First honey is made by bees for themselves, it is their food, it is an animal product, so it is not vegan. People take (steal) the honey from them and give bees sugar instead (many bees are also hurt and die in the manipulation process). Using any type of animal product just reinforces the idea that animals, being them mammals, birds, insects etc are here to serve us, and this is exactly the paradigm that we are trying to shift. No matter to what species they belong to they should have full rights over their bodies and their products, they are sentient beings and should be nobody's property.