Is that bottle of tequila bat-friendly? Check the label.

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. When I was young, tequila was something cheap you drank from shot glasses. Now it’s part of a peculiar health food movement. I’m reading from what I found: tequila's lower calorie and sugar content make it appealing to health-conscious consumers. Seems like a peculiar come-on, but tequila is now the most popular liquor in the country. It comes from agave plants that send up a huge flower stalk and then die; certain bats depend on that nectar production. Vegans who shun animal products use agave syrup, since it’s not dependent on honeybees. But the agave growers get higher yields of the precursors when the plants aren’t allowed to flower, and the long-nosed bats that stick their proboscis into the night-blooming flowers are imperiled. Some brands say "bat-friendly" on their labels.