http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x79311Oh my.
The things one learns, randomly strolling around Skins's island, taking in the sights.
SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-25-10 09:46 PM
Original message
can vegetarians eat bread?
full of little yeasts living happy lives
if this is a dumb ? i apologize but i have a bet going
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-25-10 10:09 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Original message
1. Vegetarians will, but vegans will not usually.
By the way, franksolich is still working on that
War and Peace-sized sex novel about Mrs. Alfred Packer, but is kind of bogged down in the chapter involving the pig-tailed bent-backed slipper-wearing Chinaman and the notorious racist sinophobic Mrs. Alfred Packer.
While reading Mrs. Alfred Packer earlier this morning, the Muses struck franksolich, suggesting Mrs. Alfred Packer bear an infant, Wild Bill Jr., with suspiciously-slanted eyes.
Whatever; we'll see how it goes.
noamnety (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-25-10 10:15 PM
Response to Original message
2. My daughter's vegan and eats yeast products.
It's classified in the fungi group, not the animal group.
SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-25-10 10:32 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. hah i win
in your face hahahahahahahahahaha
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-25-10 10:32 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Original message
4. Yeast is a fungus so of course vegetarians and vegans eat them, at least if they know how to read.
Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-25-10 11:17 PM
Response to Original message
5. If they're ethical, they will eschew grains, because lots of animals are killed in harvesting it.
mice, voles, gophers, chipmunks, and so on, not to mention the vast quantities of insects.
Plus, of course, the massive deforestation or prairie destruction that takes place to make land to grow grains and all the animals that are killed/displaced in that process.
The ethical vegetarian will also eschew all farmed veggies and fruits.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-26-10 12:35 AM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #5
7. The truly ethical vegetarian will eschew grains, leaves, seeds, and other parts of living things that don't want to be eaten in favor of fruit that has fallen to the ground. They will then deposit the seed that passes through their bodies in places new fruiting trees can grow and flourish.
Or they can get a grip and realize the way this planet works is that we have to eat other creatures to live, whether they're rooted to the ground or ambulatory, depending which species we are.
Morality vegetarians irritate the crap out of me.
I stopped eating meat because I didn't like it all that much. I kept eating a veg diet because it was cheaper and I felt better on it. I also don't give a rip what anybody else needs to eat to feel well.
Bon appetit.
My, my, the defrocked warped primitive seems grouchy.
It must be that time of the month again.
kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-26-10 01:24 PM
Response to Reply #7
8. I, OTOH, love the taste of meat but strongly disapprove of how it's produced in our industrialized agricultural system here in the US, so I wind up not eating much of it (compared to when I was growing up).
Plus, fresh produce here in CA is great year-round and it's a shame not to take advantage of that. So a lot of times I simply don't have room in my meal plans for meat.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-26-10 01:36 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #8
9. I've given up red meat altogether since I really dislike it now and have completely lost any appreciation for the flavor. The rare chicken I eat (and last week was one of those rare times, chicken breasts braised in white wine, heavy cream and thyme) is free range, organically grown chicken that can't be cut with the side of a fork. Most of the time I stick to Quorn, though, as it satisfies the fried chicken Jones and is actually a lot cheaper than organically raised chicken.
kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-26-10 04:44 PM
Response to Reply #9
10. If you're eating rare chicken, no wonder you don't like it......
beac (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-25-10 11:20 PM
Response to Original message
6. Mmmmm, fungus... tasty, tasty fungus!
I'm a vegetarian. Well technically, an ovo-lacto-pesca-vegetarian since I eat eggs, dairy & fish. It would be HARD to give up bread. Hurrah for fungus!
Retrograde (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-28-10 07:55 PM
Response to Original message
11. Yeast are neither plants nor animals
They're in a completely different kingdom, the fungi, which also includes mushrooms and molds. Besides, if you give up bread you also have to give up beer and wine.
(There's some evidence that fungi may be more closely related to the kingdom animalia than to the plantae, and mushroom cells contain the same form of chitin found in arthropod exoskeletons, but as far as I'm concerned if it grows in the ground it's not an animal. Now pass me a beer)
