Plants are fed to animals, and then those animals are butchered.

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    They also feed ground animal remains to animals. They also feed animal waste to plants.

    Those friggging animals are everywhere!!!

    (Except my trusted neighbourhood farm, they even use vegan fertiliser)

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      15 hours ago

      Hmm, i know this is probably sarcasm.

      Real question though, does animal based fertiliser have an actual impact on vegan choices ?

      I hadn’t even considered it until just now.

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        14 hours ago

        It’s only partly sarcasm. This farm uses only plant based fertilisers, but I guess it’s hard to find out if the food in the supermarket is completely animal free. Buuuut… I don’t know that much about vegan food sources.

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          13 hours ago

          ah, that’s my bad for not properly phrasing my question.

          Like how, “bacon = not vegan” and “cheese = not vegan” and “honey=controversy, for some reason”.

          Is there some sort of ruling passed down from the vegan starchamber that says “animal fertiliser grown plants = not vegan” or is it not a common enough consideration to have an agreed upon consensus?

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            I always thought: If X depends on taking advantage of animals, X is not Vegan. But I guess there are people out there who consider themselves vegan because they avoid X if X requires to actively harm animals.

            And as I said, I‘m not Vegan so who am I to judge.

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              7 hours ago

              Yeah don’t they have vegan leather? So I think as long as there is no suffering involved, vegans are cool with it.

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              5 hours ago

              I always think of vegan as a spectrum, (many of the best things are a spectrum).

              With sliding scales in there for stuff like morals, ethics, culture, circumstance etc.

              Once you hit a threshold of vegan traits you’re a real™ vegan.

              My judgement on this is also suspect, so ymmv.