Bees are literally the worst example of humans exploiting an animal. The bees choose to live in the beekeepers boxes. They can and do leave if they decide they are not treated well by the keepers.
They overproduce honey when in a keepers box. They do not use it all and any competent keeper does not take all the produced honey at once.
Similar to how we harvest cinnamon, we take enough to use but not enough to cause detriment to the source.
Bees are not like chickens or other livestock where they’re forced into small areas and kept only as long as useful then slaughtered. The biggest thing that threatens bees is not the keepers but anyone nearby who uses pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides… Which isn’t usually the keepers.
For me, I’d love to see the monoculture farms go away. Reduced meat eating would go a long way to that end.
It doesn’t require completely abstaining but even a 10% reduction in the need for feed and other processed items would free up land that could be used in more sustainable ways.
To that end, I’m also a fan of alternative farming methods such as vertical farms and promoting even small balcony boxes that may only produce pretty flowers or herbs.
Every variety of greenery in as many places as possible would combat the poison we’ve pumped into the world over the past few centuries.