• @xantoxis
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    911 months ago

    One key detail of that is that the figs contain the bodies of that type of wasp, so you’re technically still eating an animal if you’re not extremely careful.

    • daddyjones
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      311 months ago

      Is that not also true of the fly trap?

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        As far as I know, the vegan prerogative is to avoid harming any living creature, and avoiding eating animals comes downstream of that. I think other vegans believe eating any animal for any reason is immoral, but I’m not really sure of their rationale.

        So on the one hand, you might be able to convince a vegan to eat roadkill…

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          There’s some debate over whether bivalves are vegan, because they don’t have a central nervous system and therefore can’t experience suffering.