Karlos wrote:
Incidentally, why is it considered vegeterian / vegan friendly when every pot contains the microscopic innards of countless trillions of previously living animals* that have undergone autolysis as a result of being exposed to high salt concentrations and then boiled to death?
I mean, it's just as barbaric as boiling lobsters alive...
*yeast are eukaryotic.
Eukaryotes, as I understand the term, are basically
any organism with cell nuclei... and that includes plants, fungi, etc.
:-?
Since yeast is/are basically fungal and consensus is that fungi are non-sentient, it's fair game for foodstuff.
Even with that aside, my bottom line would be that if I had to worry about every minute cellular organism entering my body I'd have trouble breathing with a clear conscience. :-)
Edit:
Regarding the lobster analogy, a lot of vegetarians seem unhappy to attribute comparative capacities for suffering to different types of animals (save for a minority who think it's okay to call themselves vegetarian and still eat chicken.)
I differ in that regard, and just as I'd say boiling a person or a cow causes more suffering than boiling a lobster, boiling a lobster causes more suffering than boiling a microscopic animal. They just don't have the capacity to suffer in the same way.
