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Some vegans including myself consider bivalves to be vegan since bivalves aren’t sentient. Veganism as a taxonomical distinction between animals and plants/fun
by hombre_fatal 3y ago
Some vegans including myself consider bivalves to be vegan since bivalves aren’t sentient.
Veganism as a taxonomical distinction between animals and plants/fungi doesn’t make sense because it would entail eating sentient plants which doesn’t track the underlying ethics.
- hollerith 3y agoCan you give an example of a sentient plant?
- hombre_fatal 3y agoThere are none that we know of. But if we discovered one tomorrow or if Santa’s elves fell under the plant taxonomy, I don’t think most vegans would be onboard with farming them for food. Sentience is the variable that matters. Animals have just become a rough proxy for that variable due to the lopsided distribution of sentience.
- Klonoar 3y agoTo this day I wish the term “seagan” had caught on.