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I wonder how vegetarians, particularly vegans, in NY have responded to this, given that bottled water is often tap water. Opportunity for a vegan stillsuit sta

I wonder how vegetarians, particularly vegans, in NY have responded to this, given that bottled water is often tap water. Opportunity for a vegan stillsuit startup?

hugh3 16y ago
Of course if you did distill your water, you'd just be killing the shrimp and then not eating them. A correctly-designed filter is what you'd want. It's an interesting question, actually: how many animals do you kill every day if you're trying not to? Let's limit it to multicellular animals, but with the shrimp in your drinking water plus the insects you breathe in, and everything you step on, and whatever might be lurking in your (non-meat) food, I'd say the typical vegan has killed a lot of animals today.
jamesbritt 16y ago
It may depend on why someone is a vegetarian. If they simply do not want to eat anything that may be considered meat, however broadly defined, then eating micro shrimp might give them trouble. If they avoid eating meat insofar as they do not want to cause the suffering of some creature, then shrimp may not be an issue. http://www.wesleyan.edu/wsa/warn/singer_fish.htm http://www.wesleyan.edu/wsa/warn/singer_fish.htm Much like "atheist" or "capitalist" , "vegetarian" gets used to describe a number of situations that are not all interchangeable, but for which there are often not many good, easily grasped, alternatives. (Though I seriously do not get the "vegetarian who eats chicken" thing.) For myself, if someone offered me vat-grown meat I'd have no moral qualms eating it, though I think I lost the taste for meat sometime ago. I refer to myself as a vegetarian, but I'm sure there's some longer, more complex, not-worth-the-trouble term or phrase that more accurately describes my conditions for what food I'll consume.
konad 16y ago
You can't be vegan, all you can do is aspire.

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I wonder how vegetarians, particularly vegans, in NY have responded to this, given that bottled water is often tap water. Opportunity for a vegan stillsuit sta

by squidsoup 16y ago

I wonder how vegetarians, particularly vegans, in NY have responded to this, given that bottled water is often tap water. Opportunity for a vegan stillsuit startup?

hugh3 16y ago
Of course if you did distill your water, you'd just be killing the shrimp and then not eating them. A correctly-designed filter is what you'd want. It's an interesting question, actually: how many animals do you kill every day if you're trying not to? Let's limit it to multicellular animals, but with the shrimp in your drinking water plus the insects you breathe in, and everything you step on, and whatever might be lurking in your (non-meat) food, I'd say the typical vegan has killed a lot of animals today.
jamesbritt 16y ago
It may depend on why someone is a vegetarian. If they simply do not want to eat anything that may be considered meat, however broadly defined, then eating micro shrimp might give them trouble. If they avoid eating meat insofar as they do not want to cause the suffering of some creature, then shrimp may not be an issue. http://www.wesleyan.edu/wsa/warn/singer_fish.htm http://www.wesleyan.edu/wsa/warn/singer_fish.htm Much like "atheist" or "capitalist" , "vegetarian" gets used to describe a number of situations that are not all interchangeable, but for which there are often not many good, easily grasped, alternatives. (Though I seriously do not get the "vegetarian who eats chicken" thing.) For myself, if someone offered me vat-grown meat I'd have no moral qualms eating it, though I think I lost the taste for meat sometime ago. I refer to myself as a vegetarian, but I'm sure there's some longer, more complex, not-worth-the-trouble term or phrase that more accurately describes my conditions for what food I'll consume.
konad 16y ago
You can't be vegan, all you can do is aspire.