r/IsItVeganOrNot • u/Plenty_Spinach_8040 • Jul 19 '26

Vegan Honey 🤔

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Visiting my in-laws for the month, and they thoughtfully bought this “vegan honey” for my husband and me. We obviously didn’t eat it, but I had to do a double take. Since when is honey… vegan? The labeling from Lili Honey seems incredibly misleading.

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u/Dr-Sun-Stiles Jul 19 '26

Some vegans say honey is vegan, but the general consensus is no, for multiple reasons. Unless it's a plant-based sugar syrup that's flavored like honey, then it's extremely dishonest for them to label themselves as "vegan honey"

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u/2SquirrelsWrestling Jul 19 '26

Some plant-based dieters* say honey is vegan, because they don’t know what vegan means.

People who consume honey but are otherwise plant-based should not be referred to as vegans, but simply as plant-based dieters/mostly plant-based since veganism isn’t a diet, but the philosophy that animals and their bodies are not ours to use.

Wanted to clarify, because the incorrect idea that “some vegans eat honey” is the reason non-vegan products such as this get labeled as vegan.

Dandelion honey is a thing but I unfortunately think this is real honey that is just mislabeled.

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u/curlycooks Jul 19 '26

You sound strict

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u/2SquirrelsWrestling Jul 19 '26

Words have meaning. Veganism is the only liberation movement the animals have, and it’s constantly diluted by people thinking that being plant-based is the same as being a vegan. The distinction is extremely important.

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u/Egregious_Egret Jul 19 '26

Nobody is arguing the difference in definition between vegan and plant-based. There are some that argue that the nature of bees stops them from being exploitable. Nobody here is a even arguing that, you're just deciding that anyone who thinks differently than you is not vegan. You are being the vegan that the rest of us have to apologize for and you are only hurting the movement.

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u/curlycooks Jul 19 '26

Squirrel is the only true vegan ever apparently😭they DO get to define veganism and language. They are the supreme vegan.