Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoSettle a debate: would eating a Venus fly trap be considered vegan?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareSettle a debate: would eating a Venus fly trap be considered vegan?Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareTrack_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agoBut Scavengers feed off dead bodies too. Is Hyena vegan? What about crow?
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYeah but what about robots, coffee cups, and tennis balls??
minus-squareanarchost@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoI think the average vegan response would be “no thanks but Godspeed to you”
minus-squareanarchost@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoThat’s an easy one: no, because they are animals.
minus-squareanarchost@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agoBesides being cannibalism, I’m pretty sure all vegans would tell you that humans have sentience greater than, if not on par with, the average animal. So eating one would not be vegan
minus-squareanarchost@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agoThen they overate veganism first and foremost
But Scavengers feed off dead bodies too. Is Hyena vegan? What about crow?
They are animals so no
Yeah but what about robots, coffee cups, and tennis balls??
I think the average vegan response would be “no thanks but Godspeed to you”
That’s an easy one: no, because they are animals.
And what’s a human being? A mineral?
Besides being cannibalism, I’m pretty sure all vegans would tell you that humans have sentience greater than, if not on par with, the average animal. So eating one would not be vegan
Humans overrate themselves.
Then they overate veganism first and foremost