you’re also comparing religion and spiritual cultures to scientific arguments.
Because veganism seems more like religion than science. You give the benefit of the doubt to even bugs based on weak evidence.
Based off what evidence? I’m not saying something either way for animals like jellyfish, but you can’t just say “near-certain” with no backing.
No backing? How about based on the scientific fact that jellyfish have no brain? They do have eyes and neurons, but even plants detect light and share information between organs. It’s just slower. I find it bizarre that vegans are okay with eating vegetables, but are morally opposed to eating other brainless things like bivalves. It is possible to farm these commercially. https://sentientist.org/2013/05/20/the-ethical-case-for-eating-oysters-and-mussels/
That’s unreasonable. Humans have to assume a great deal to communicate at all. It takes a great deal of assumed background knowledge to even parse a typical English sentence. I said “vegans” are opposed to eating brainless bivalves, not that “Zarm” is. Again I’m talking to the audience and not only to you. You claim to be a vegan, so it is perfectly reasonable to assume on priors you take the majority vegan position of strict vegetarianism until you tell me otherwise (which you just did, noted). You sound more like a normal vegetarian than the stricter vegan. Some weaker vegetarian variants will still eat dairy, eggs, or even fish.
My understanding is the majority of vegans generally don’t eat any animal-derived foods whatsoever, including honey, dairy, eggs, bivalves, insects, gelatin; and also don’t wear animal products, like leather, furs, or silk. Or they at least profess to this position for signaling purposes, but have trouble maintaining it. Because it’s too unhealthy to be sustainable long term.
Because veganism seems more like religion than science. You give the benefit of the doubt to even bugs based on weak evidence.
No backing? How about based on the scientific fact that jellyfish have no brain? They do have eyes and neurons, but even plants detect light and share information between organs. It’s just slower. I find it bizarre that vegans are okay with eating vegetables, but are morally opposed to eating other brainless things like bivalves. It is possible to farm these commercially. https://sentientist.org/2013/05/20/the-ethical-case-for-eating-oysters-and-mussels/
No I don’t. I never said anything close to that. In fact, I don’t even think there’s enough evidence to warrant me from not eating honey.
Again, not opposed to this. I never said anything about this either. Stop assuming positions.
That’s unreasonable. Humans have to assume a great deal to communicate at all. It takes a great deal of assumed background knowledge to even parse a typical English sentence. I said “vegans” are opposed to eating brainless bivalves, not that “Zarm” is. Again I’m talking to the audience and not only to you. You claim to be a vegan, so it is perfectly reasonable to assume on priors you take the majority vegan position of strict vegetarianism until you tell me otherwise (which you just did, noted). You sound more like a normal vegetarian than the stricter vegan. Some weaker vegetarian variants will still eat dairy, eggs, or even fish.
My understanding is the majority of vegans generally don’t eat any animal-derived foods whatsoever, including honey, dairy, eggs, bivalves, insects, gelatin; and also don’t wear animal products, like leather, furs, or silk. Or they at least profess to this position for signaling purposes, but have trouble maintaining it. Because it’s too unhealthy to be sustainable long term.