The thing that gets me is I eat a vegan diet and forgo honey but I also use bug spray, so I’ve got a revealed preference to kill insects if it’ll make my life moderately better.
That said, I’m probably not killing insects on the scale of bee suffering given for honey, especially given if I stopped being strict about honey I’d just be eating e.g. cereal that has honey as an ingredient rather than getting it as an ingredient in its own right, so the amounts would be miniscule. IDK.
I don’t believe that most insect repellents cause direct permanent harm to insects in the way that they’re used in on-body spray, if that’s your main concern. I’m far from an expert on the subject, but it seems like the two major synthetic repellents only (temporarily?) masks insects’ perception of the odorants leading them to you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icaridin#Mechanism_of_action) rather than causing any overt sensation
The thing that gets me is I eat a vegan diet and forgo honey but I also use bug spray, so I’ve got a revealed preference to kill insects if it’ll make my life moderately better.
That said, I’m probably not killing insects on the scale of bee suffering given for honey, especially given if I stopped being strict about honey I’d just be eating e.g. cereal that has honey as an ingredient rather than getting it as an ingredient in its own right, so the amounts would be miniscule. IDK.
I don’t believe that most insect repellents cause direct permanent harm to insects in the way that they’re used in on-body spray, if that’s your main concern. I’m far from an expert on the subject, but it seems like the two major synthetic repellents only (temporarily?) masks insects’ perception of the odorants leading them to you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icaridin#Mechanism_of_action) rather than causing any overt sensation
I was talking about the spray that kills insects, so yeah, my revealed preferences definitely call for insect death.