Kind of a wierd question for vegans?!
I ate a few and thought to myself that the bee was not being hurt in any way. But I don't eat any products that have been made on shared equipment with other products that aren't vegan friendly. I'm terrified of animal product contamination to be honest.
Would you eat the fruit?
AND I AM COMPLETELY SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
please don't leave mean answers.
Answers: My family dries fruit and we have been drying persimmons lately. One day I witnessed a bee land on one of the drying persimmons. I didn't think much of it at the time, but now that the fruit is ready to eat, i'm having trouble deciding if i should eat them.
I ate a few and thought to myself that the bee was not being hurt in any way. But I don't eat any products that have been made on shared equipment with other products that aren't vegan friendly. I'm terrified of animal product contamination to be honest.
Would you eat the fruit?
AND I AM COMPLETELY SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
please don't leave mean answers.
I think that you are taking it a bit far. Maybe you are obsessive-compulsive or have anxiety or some other illness that makes you this particular and this obsessed about your food. Most vegans don't agonize and torture themselves like this and don't over-think things like this.
Hopefully you'll loosen up a bit because it is impossible to be 100% vegan, and food is never 100% vegan... animals touch and crawl all over our food. Animals die and disintegrate into the soil that nourishes plants. You will have a very hard time living happily with yourself if you agonize over everything like this... I would suggest seeing if there's more to it than just being vegan, but some underlying problem as well. I am really just trying to be helpful and not being mean...
okay, regardless of what happened before if there is any food that makes you feel yucky, then do not eat it. but as far as the princples, - you get to decide what you eat!
Personally the fact that you are ready questioning it, I think you may have lost your joy for eating it!
It's difficult to take you seriously when you just created your ID today and your name is crazy veggie.
A live animal simply touching food does not exploit the animal. All is good.
Yes, I would have to say this is your OCD talking. The bee, as you said, wasn't hurt so there's no problem with eating your dried persimmons. I know it's sometimes hard to know if it's the OCD and you're being completely unrealistic or if your worries are justified, and once you get an idea in your head it's nearly impossible to let it go when you have OCD. Sometimes you just have to force yourself to do the exact opposite of what the OCD is telling you to. (I'd have issues eating anything that I saw an insect on though) :)
This isn't a vegan issue. Please do better at not making it so easy for those around you to confuse your obsessiveness with your veganism.
Eat the fruit.
This question seems like a joke made to make vegan people look stupid.
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Oh cute, I see now that your account was created today.
Please get off the internet and go back to watching cartoons.
Please.
The bee didn't suffer for your fruit. The bee is not what you are eating. It merely *touched* your food. My cats often touch my food (which I, ahem, wash after) and that doesn't mean I'm less of a vegetarian for it. That isn't contamination - contamination is when an animal product or an animal that will be said product comes in contact with your vegan or vegetarian food. An innocent landing (or in my cats' case, pawing) is not contaminating the food.
I understand that you may be confused about the subject, but it's fairly simple: you aren't eating the bee, the bee has nothing to do with what you eat. If the bee had died somehow because of the drying process, then I'd say no, don't eat it, you killed a creature for it. But it didn't! It was an accidental landing, so there is no deal at all. Enjoy your bee-friendly fruit! :)