[ExI] bee free, honey! it's fake

[Will Steinberg]

Wait, you’re vegan?

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Fun aside for a Saturday morning, signifying nothing.  Well, something to
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> We mentored two of our scouts, helped them with their Eagle projects and
> badges.  Family vacationed in Italy.  They picked out a nice gift from
> abroad, a goody box, Italian cheeses and treats, mailed it back, gave it to
> us with their heartfelt thanks.  A jar of something, looked like jam or
> preserves of some kind.  The writing on the jar was in Italian, but I used
> ChatGPT to translate.  Wish I hadn’t.  Miele is honey.  Not your
> sweetheart, it is the gooey bug barf that I am ethically and morally
> opposed to humans devouring.
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> Well damn.  They had no way of knowing that I personally think of
> collecting honey as reprehensible, they meant well.  Mine is a puzzling
> attitude perhaps from one who made his “living” doing that as a teenager.
> I did not allow my “honey” to even open that jar.  She knows me.
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> I had an idea.  I thought of a way to give that honey back to the bees.
> Not the same ones perhaps: I will not travel to Italy to give it to Italian
> bees, or their descendants.  But I can give the honey back to the same
> species.  I cannot right every wrong, but I do what I can for them.  If it
> is available, bees will devour honey sooner than they will collect pollen
> and go make their own.  I make a plate, ring the rim with Tanglefoot to
> keep the ants out of it, put the honey in the center.  They will find it.
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> Miele is Italian for honey, and I think their techno-word mielbio is going
> toward either raw honey or perhaps organic honey.  Looking around the
> internet, I found a company called MeliBio, which is working on creating
> synthetic honey, bee-free.
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> https://melibio.com/
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> What a time to be living, ja?
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> Well OK, we already have synthetic paraffin, completely bee-free, created
> thru ethylene polymerization.  Bee wax prices dropped when the synthetic
> stuff was coming online.  So now, if MeliBio is successful and can
> synthesize honey cheaper than the bee honey, we can keep our grubby paws
> out of their hives and let them pollenate our crops without robbing or
> molesting the little stingity-ass bitches.
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> Cool!
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> spike
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