• grandel@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    By definition you can eat and drink human produce and still be vegan. So you could be a cannibal and also a vegan.

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      2 years ago

      Yeah I think as long as consent is given. Animals can’t give consent, which makes it immoral to eat them (according to vegans).

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        2 years ago

        That’s the point.

        Veganism, as far as I can tell, is not so much about not consuming animal products as it is about not consuming anything that causes harm to animals.

        By that logic, you would keep your child on breast milk as long as possible, to avoid having to switch to cow milk or formula.

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      2 years ago

      Breast milk is the only milk that can be vegan. It’s all about consent.

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      2 years ago

      Yes, and vegans can also be cannibals for this same reason, as long as the person consents.

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        2 years ago

        Only if you define vegan as to strictly avoid any animal product (and define humans as animals). A somewhat looser Definition says to avoid animal exploitation.

        So a product made by a non-domesticised animal in a natural way - e.g. Penguin guano - could be seen as vegan. The animal produces it anyway and the product isn’t won through keeping the animal captive and / or “stealing” from it.

        After all I wouldn’t be too strict with definitions here.

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          2 years ago

          Most honey wouldn’t be vegan but perhaps an abandoned hive could be harvested. Or infertile eggs from an abandoned nest? Bits of sheep’s wool collected from a spiky bush?

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            Yeah sure. Maybe you could make the argument that humans should leave stuff like that for other scavengers who need the nutrients to survive, and instead opt for plant foods. But at those edge scenarios you would then also have to take into account the impact that plant agriculture has on wildlife. It’s quite possible that scavenging and gathering is the most vegan option, but seeing how it’s neither viable for a lot of people nor something that often comes up in daily life, it’s easier to just generalize vegan food as plant based.

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      2 years ago

      You can drink from a well as that just gets water straight from the ground. Which well would be full of breast milk though?

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    2 years ago

    Drinking milk without exploitation, instead of imposing suffering on millions of beings? Get the boat

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      2 years ago

      What? I’m vegan myself. What does all of this have to do with the post?

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        2 years ago

        Sorry fellow vegan, the post made it seem like human breast milk is somehow worse than or comparable to “conventional” cow’s milk.