<div dir="auto">Wait, you’re vegan?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-3585405063969273029WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Fun aside for a Saturday morning, signifying nothing. Well, something to me.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://melibio.com/" target="_blank">https://melibio.com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">What a time to be living, ja?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Cool! <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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