Do Vegans count insects as meat?!


Question: Do Vegans count insects as meat?
Well after all the vegetables and fruit they eat contain insect particles in the first place no matter how the well they clean their food

Answers:

Insects count as meat b/c they are in the animal kingdom. This being said, it's not a perfect world. If one strives to avoid animal products but accidentally each an insect part, they are still vegan. It's not a perfect world, and does not justify throwing up one's hands and eating dead cows just b/c one might have trouble avoiding every single insect particle.



Being a veg*n is about minimizing your contribution to suffering. There is no way to avoid the insect parts the gov allows in food(short of growing your own which is not always feasible). Just b/c that cannot be avoided does not make all effort nil.

I do count insects as meat. I have always been curious about the taste of insects(as other cultures do eat them - crickets, meal worms, etc), but refrain from eating insects.

I do have a odd love of creepy crawlies. I find them very fascinating. This fascination and love stems from childhood when I tried to wash an ant down the drain, and it faught tooth and nail against the water from the shower head. I then gave up and was amazed at how the ant carefully readjusting his antenna, taking the water off his legs with him mouth parts, etc. I ended up putting him outside.



I don't think I know anybody who intentionally eats insects. Do you?

Jains, by the way, who are very strict about not killing animals, will often sweep the ground before them so they don't accidentally step on a bug. Most vegans around here aren't quite that vigilant, but they also usually don't deliberately kill insects. Most vegans I know will catch bugs and let them outside rather than squishing them. The exception, of course, is when there is a safety or health threat. I am reasonably sure that most people would call exterminators if they were allergic to wasps and discovered a wasp's nest in one of their walls.



I consider an insect a living creature, and I'd try take all of them out of my food.

I'm sure some do get through.
Some people just don't like the taste of meat- it's not all about the animals feelings.

If a bug has already died on it's way to it's lair, gorging on the apple I am now eating, I don't begrudge it.
I'd try to pick out all insects though.
It is not about being so black and white with it. For many, the point of vegetarianism is compassion.
We know animals suffer a lot, they get beaten, smeared an treated HORRIBLY , injected with hormones and tortured before being shotgunned to death slowly whilst being dragged by a hook through their heel while they're still alive in slaughterhouses.
We know this, and some people choose to NOT partake in that practise- they will not support that behaviour.

If you choose to go ahead and partake of that meat- who does that? Thugs.

To actively go ahead and partake of a practice that you KNOW drags cows by a hook through their heel and have their legs hacked off while they're still alive, and eat that steak, I honestly don't know how you can still sleep at night.
THAT is compassion- to not partake in that practice. There is no word for a person who choose to go ahead and support that kind of practice other than thug, or barbarian, imo.


Insects which find their way into my apple, they wanted to go there. I'd still rather not eat them alive.



i don't think vegans will eat anything that was once alive
but honestly normal people don't eat insects




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