You must log in or # to comment.
In North America, honey bees are an invasive species that cannot effectively pollinate native plants, but compete with native pollinators for resources and spread disease. They only exist here to make money for their owner while degrading our collective environment. When you hear about honey bee colonies collapsing, that is perversely a GOOD THING.
Do you have a source on this? First I’ve read about honey bees being invasive.
If the claim were about yellow jackets I would believe it as they are still pollenators but not as effective as honey bees. Not to mention I see way more wasps, hornets and yellow jackets than honey bees combined in a single season. I’ll see maybe one honey bee (if I’m lucky) a year in northern Ohio, but the latter are everywhere up here.
You’re telling me a shrimp lipped that balm?
*those in power did fucking nothing
While true, “we did fucking nothing” is also entirely true. The fast majority of humans don’t give a shit about the environment. No matter their wealth and power. It’s only a lot more noticable and harmful when Jeff Bezos flies to space. But let’s be real here. If aberage Joe White (43) had the means to fly to space, he would do so without a second thought of the environment!
We’re dealing with a pandemic of selfish assholes and one of its symptoms are selfish billionaires who destroy in seconds what a few thousand conservationists achieved in a year!
Shrimp flavoured or shrimp scented?
If this were a real product, I would guess it’d be using the shrimp shells to make gelatin or something out of. In that case, neither, unless they added flavor/scent.
Honestly though, I think I could enjoy and Old Bay scented and flavored lip balm.
Yes
First one, then the other.
Thanks for the laugh
Shrimp balmed lip
Makes it way easier to convince cats to kiss me
makes my mouth swell up just like the real thing! Boy do I love food allergies
Honey bees aren’t at risk of extinction
Sometimes jokes where the punchline are based around absurdity will simplify or ignore the nuance of reality for the sake of a joke.
But the other bees and pollinators are. And thats scary.
The distinction is key. Honeybees are one of the biggest reason other Bees and native pollinators are going extinct. Honey bees are voracious foragers and will out compete almost all other pollinators.
There are anti honey bee non profits with missions between eradicating honey bee nests they find to just relocating them to places where they can be used for monocrops.
If the extreme native pollinator crowd got their way we would all be fucked as honey bees currently account for 75% of ag pollination, with the remainder mostly being self pollinated plants.
If they keep making them into lip balm they are
What’s next? Bacon perfume?
WTF! I better not say anything, it turns out to be real!
Personally, I find the fact that they take pains to point out that it’s vegan and cruelty free the most offensive since
1: pointing it out kinda implies that they expect people to expect meat byproducts and cruelty from their perfumes and
2: the Venn diagram of people who would want a bacon perfume and people who are vegan and/or are actively conscious about animal testing and other cruelty associated with consumerism probably features infinitesimal overlap, if any 😄
wtf!
How could I not love this?
