Do Vegans consider insects to be "animals" ?!
If this is true, how do vegans reconcile the fact that it is impossible to eat any fruit or vegetable without consuming a degree of fruit fly/larvae and other insects or insect parts ?
Answers: For example, i've heard that vegans do not eat honey because they are made from bees....thus giving the implication that they are also inclined to resist eating or using byproducts of insects in the same manner as other animals.
If this is true, how do vegans reconcile the fact that it is impossible to eat any fruit or vegetable without consuming a degree of fruit fly/larvae and other insects or insect parts ?
Yes. Because they are animals.
There was an addition to the definition that allows certain transgressions:
http://www.vegansociety.com/html/about_u...
"as far as is possible and practical"---was added long ago to accomodate that which cannot be avoided.
it is consciously whatthey eat( how would a vegan know if someone sneaked a fly in their soup in a restaraunt?)... and theydo bellieve insects are animals... because scienetifically this is a true statement theyare animals not mammals. There is a sect of religion called jainists who wait for the mangos to fall off a tree and not pick it until it falls . They also make sure they sweep thier front porch as to not step on insects
I'm a vegetarian, not a vegan. I wouldn't eat an insect such as chocolate covered whatever. some places insects are delicacies, i would pass on them all. As far as eating bug parts in fruits or in canned food. That's just life. I do my best to adhere to my vegetarian rules, but perfection just is unachievable.
well to be a straight vegan is very difficult and not healthy either,.....i only know of vegeterians who eat animal by products like eggs ( unfertilised) milk etc so long as the animal does not get killed during the production stage ... and of course living things ...plants are not included as living things although scientificall y they are living things
No they don't consider insects animals because they aren't cute and furry.
Insects are animals regardless of personal opinion.
i think they do consider them as animals. There are some religeons where by in the morning they prey for any bug, amoeba or micro organism they might happen to step on or accidently kill that day.
I think what youve asked is just knit picking really. you could be technical and say that everything is covered in bacteria so thats eating animals, but i think vegans focus more on not using anyproducts that animals have had to work to produce or are indeed, The product itself
This include honey, milk, eggs, meat, fish, leather, wool, cashmere, produts containing lanolin or products tested on animals.
I consider them animals, and I do my very best to avoid killing them when possible. It is, of course, impossible to go through life without killing anything, but just because I will kill an ant or two today doesn't mean I should just throw my hands up and support intentional and excessive killing.
yes definately. Insects are very moral creatures.
i think all TRUE vegans should donate their scrawny butts to the maggots and worms that are laying dormant in their meat...