all true but bro my eyes are bleeding

Bees don’t get exploited in the creation of honey, FYI

Edit: to explain, beekeepers actually take a lot of workload off bees by getting rid of parasites, giving them a hive which is more stable than their own and lovingly taking care of them. The amount of honey taken is only a fraction of what they produce. Overall the bees are left with a net positive in energy saved that would usually go into dealing with disease, competitors, repairing the nest, parasites, practically everything.

Notably is also that in artificial hive designs, the bees thrive better than in nature.

Beekeeping is also playing an intensely important role in undoing damage that humans did to bee populations, so it is actually in any environmentalists interest to support beekeeping. It’s also currently the only way we can combat “Colony Collapse Disorder” which if left unchecked, can decimate hives in entire countrysides and was deemed an extinction level threat for certain bee species.