FOUR... Bees are being enslaved for human benefit.

Using slavery in the context of non-human animals can be controversial, but it is in my opinion the most accurate representation of what the human race is inflicting on billions of sentient beings on this planet.

'Slavery... refer(s) to involuntary subjection to another or others'

Why must this definition be interpreted to apply solely to humans?

Bees are not able to leave. Their freedom is restricted. They belong to a human. This is slavery.

There are those who suggest that if the bees wanted to leave they could just fly away, but this is an oversimplification of a complicated issue. Bees cannot survive on their own. They must be a part of a hive. A single worker bee who leaves her group and attempts to join another will likely be killed by the new group.

The population could split in half and attempt to leave (called swarming), but beekeepers do all they can to prevent this from happening by ripping off the wings of the queen so that she cannot leave and then killing her and replacing her with a younger queen before she would reach the age common for this behaviour.

Why don't they all leave together? Also not likely. It would be very difficult for a bee to understand the big picture of what is happening to them. To correctly associate individual events such as the sudden disappearance and replacement of the queen, the missing honey, or half of the hive being removed, with humans would be almost impossible.

Bees demonstrate their unhappiness with individual events by stinging beekeepers. But overall? How are they to know this isn't the natural order of things?

If these points aren't enough, beekeepers often trap the bees in their hive over the winter requiring them to remove large piles of dead bees a couple of times per season.

Let me get this straight, trapped in a cage with the dead and dying with no escape? Forced to work without being allowed to receive the benefits? Sounds like slavery to me.

FIVE... Stolen honey is replaced with a cheap substitute which has almost no nutritional value for the bees.

Yes, it's true. The stolen honey is replaced with a substitute of sugar or corn syrup. But how does it compare to honey in quality of nourishment?

Pretty poorly.

Honey is vitamin and nutrient rich, high in carbohydrates, and contains protein - the perfect food for bees.

Corn syrup? It contains far lower concentrations of the necessary micronutrients bees need to survive and no protein. It is simple sugar and that's it.

Beekeepers are starving their bees of nutrition all winter long so that humans can enjoy honey on toast.

That doesn't sound ethical to me.