A while back I did a bunch of research about Vegans. By definition, honey is not vegan. It does not matter if it is wild honey or farm honey, it is still exploiting an animal for your own benefit.
Technically true, as I stated earlier, but the benifits to the animal and the environment far outweight the minimal exploitation (the bees aren't asked to do any extra work after all, they naturally produce more than they need). Like I said before, by the "word" of the rule, honey definitely is NOT vegan, however, it is open to interpretation whether it violates the "intention" of the law. Also, it seems more silly to call a person who's only animal product is honey a vegitarian than to call the vegan, and making up new terms just gets assinine!
Now, if you asked my girlfriend if she was vegan you'd get this answer (or close): yes, exept for honey. (which is a lot clearer and simpler than saying "I am vegitarian but don't eat this long list of animal products" and pulling out a short book explaining what she doesn't eat!)
A true vegan would never use an animal to plow the fields to grow their food.
True, but a moot point since we don't use animals for this anymore here.
Most "true" vegans grow their own food and do not buy it.
This is untrue, unless we're counting the number of "true" vegans on our fingers! Very very few people grow all of their own food, we're talking about a couple of communes somewhere and that would be it - urban people and even most farmers absolutely cannot grow all their own food in North America/Europe.
People who want to make these catagories too black and white tend to have too polerized of a thought process, the truth is that as with all things humans do, there's a lot of grey area (though the definition is clear).
Most people who claim to be Vegan are not true vegans by definition. They mearly think themselves vegans so they can justify their holier then thou egos.
This, unfortunately is true, many "vegans" don't even read the ingredients and many are very holier than thou. My girlfriend catches more flack from those people than she does from rednecks sadly (and confusingly...).
Sorry to rant back at you, but while I'm not vegan, it's been a huge part of my life for a fifth of my life, my girlfriend gives me crap sometimes because she doesn't even debate with people about this stuff (unless really provoked) and I do (I loves a good debate!).
