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I believe that fungi are considered closer to animals than to plants. I'll let vegans ponder that one...

• ElBarto 8y ago
  I'll leave that here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC48023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC48023/ "This congruence among multiple lines of evidence strongly suggests, in contrast to traditional and current classification, that animals and fungi are sister groups while plants constitute an independent evolutionary lineage."
• Symmetry 8y ago
  Regardless of their evolutionary lineage, the important ethical consideration is whether one's food has a central nervous system. Most animals have those whereas fungi and plants do not.
  • ElBarto 8y ago
    It seems to me that the "ethical considerations" are highly personal and vary from people to people. In any case, I note that tongue-in-cheek comments are not appreciated. Sad.
    • Symmetry 8y ago
      You can't just retreat to ethics are personal when you just implied that a group of people were irrational for being willing to eat fungus. If you didn't intend to imply that then then downvotes show you should work on your communication skills.
      • ElBarto 8y ago
        Or perhaps you should work on your interpersonal and maturity skills... I didn't imply anything, you lost it over nothing trying to see things where there was obviously none. I was just tongue-in-cheek by putting some scientific facts out there, which may in fact trigger a real reflection of what not eating any animal product might mean to someone (and your point was just a generalisation that does not represent all views). It's like Reddit here. Too bad. It was a good resource.
        • fiter 8y ago
          The poster that you'r replying to didn't "[lose] it". They replied to the contents of your comments and addressed your points. "Tongue-in-cheek" comments are more popular on reddit.