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I talked to a vegan while ago about whether he would eat figs. Wasps dig into certain types of figs to lay their eggs, and then die and get digested by the fig.
by toomanybeersies 9y ago
I talked to a vegan while ago about whether he would eat figs. Wasps dig into certain types of figs to lay their eggs, and then die and get digested by the fig.
He told me that he'd just avoid eating them to avoid the question of morality.
So to answer your question from what a vegan told me: possibly.
- masklinn 9y ago> I talked to a vegan while ago about whether he would eat figs. Wasps dig into certain types of figs to lay their eggs I believe all figs work that way, with co-evolved fig wasps pollinating it. The pollinating female is actually the smallest part of the animal protein digested by the fig: only the female wasps and a subset of the parasites (which managed to infect female wasps before their exit) make it out, male wasps and the rest of the parasites die inside and get digested as well.
- rsynnott 9y agoI think if you tell quite a lot of non-vegans about that it'll put them off figs, too :)
- masklinn 9y agoBut why? It's no more "non-vegan" than a fruit tree having partially fed from a carcass or dead insects having decayed and enriched the soil? It's not like you're preventing animal suffering by not eating fig, the entire thing is part of the female fig wasp's lifecycle, that's the entirety of its life. And if the issue is taking advantage of the pollinator's hard work, the vast majority of fruits are off limits.
- rsynnott 9y agoAs I say, I think it'd put off a lot of people who aren't vegan at all if they knew about it; it's unsettling.