Would a vegan be against "maggot therapy treatment" because it exploits animals for human use?!


Question: Would a vegan be against "maggot therapy treatment" because it exploits animals for human use?
For those who aren't familiar, the idea is to use disinfected maggots to remove necrotic flesh from non-healing soft wounds. The maggots eat the dead tissue, but leave the live tissue alone, effectively helping to clean up the wound and promote faster healing.

Would a vegan find this sort of animal use wrong?

Answers:

No; in fact it's good to know flies can be good for something.

Maggot therapy was pretty much replaced by antibiotics decades ago, though I have heard it's been used again more recently.

I'm not sure why you think vegans might be against its use where appropriate or necessary. It's a rare (possibly nonexistent) vegan who is so against animal testing that they would refuse animal tested drugs in any circumstance. The point of veganism is to minimise your personal contribution to animal suffering as much as possible. Martyrdom isn't required.

Yes it's pretty disgusting to contemplate maggot therapy; but it's horrible to contemplate some of the conditions for which it might be used, too.

I don't think many vegans would get too worked up about the exploitation of maggots (especially when that exploitation consists of a good feed!).

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Yes most vegans would find that wrong.

Not because of their great compassion for maggots, but because most of them would find maggots revolting, despite their frequent claims of being "animal lovers" and that "all animals are equal to humans".



I'm a vegan and I don't see this as exploiting animals any more than people exploit animals by having them as pets. Maggots need to eat dead flesh, you got some rotting flesh on you, it seems like a perfect fit.



I'm a vegetarian and I think that under the right conditions its great. They're getting as much food as they could possibly want and as long as they're kept in good condition and a suitable environment, I see no problem.



Vegans are notorious for being rude and mean to anyone who even eats a piece of bacon. They probably would find it wrong if they felt they could assert their political power by using it as an issue on animal rights.



I wouldn't... But that's just me, lol.

l/o vegetarian



Yes, it's wrong and distrurbing.




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