> Suey <lordhunt@gmail.com> wrote:
> My work is from 15th C Spain and before. Honey for us has nothing to do 
> with cows or any animals. It is made by insects from pollen, plants. If 
> you could be so kind to read our  documents like the Archpriest of Hita 
> honey was allowed during lent as sugar.
> Really I do not know where you are coming from???

well, it depends partly on whether you consider insects animals. Can you eat insects during lent?
Most modern vegans will not eat honey. 
(For some of the reasoning behind this, see e.g.
http://www.basingstoke-beekeepers.org.uk/vegansoc.html  )

This is of course, a modern attitude, but the question that is being asked is: did (any past groups of) Europeans ever feel this way about honey - that although it isn't animal flesh, it is a product from animals, and as such should be restricted during Lent in the same way that milk and butter are.

Margaret/Emma