Since mushrooms are often farmed using manure (an animal waste product), would they be considered a vegan food?
2006-11-08 05:40:44 · 19 answers · asked by nina 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Since mushrooms are farmed using manure (an animal waste product), would they be considered a vegan food? Since it is a waste product, it could be argued that mushroom farming simply utilizes resources that would exist anyway. But if animals weren't used for other purposes, their manure also wouldn't be harvestable for use. I guess this question applies to all crops grown using animal manure as fertilizer.
2006-11-08 05:46:53 · update #1
of course they are...
do they kill animals to have their manure? i don't think so right?
2006-11-08 05:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by nadezdha87 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes its considered one. There are organic veggies and non which use manure as a fertilizer. The animal is in no way being harmed or killed for their manure. So yes its a vegan food.
2006-11-09 23:50:02 · answer #2 · answered by KewlieD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mushrooms are vegan. You can grow them on peat moss or logs. Organic vegetables are fertilized using manure. If the mushrooms were grown on the backs of cows penned up in dark barns then they wouldn't be considered vegan.
2006-11-08 16:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by Joyce T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mushroom is an above-ground fruiting body (that is, a spore-producing structure) of a fungus, having a shaft and a cap. By extension, it designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of such appearance, the former consisting of a network (called the mycelium) of filaments or hyphae. In a much broader sense, mushroom is applied to any visible fungus, or especially the fruiting body of any fungus, with the mycelium usually being hidden under bark, ground, rotten wood, leaves, etc. The technical term for the spore-producing structure of "true" mushrooms is the basidiocarp. The term "toadstool" is used typically to designate a basidiocarp that is poisonous to eat.
2006-11-08 13:47:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have never heard anyone considering mushrooms non-vegan. That is too extreme for me. Of course, I eat honey also and that is debatable by a lot of vegans.
2006-11-08 14:13:06 · answer #5 · answered by Jeng W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Mushroom is vegetarian food.
2006-11-09 00:32:30 · answer #6 · answered by Robin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, definitely. Plus, most of them are natural anti-carcinogens.
2006-11-08 13:43:44 · answer #7 · answered by brucenjacobs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Though they are technically a fungus, most people catagorize them as a vegetable.
2006-11-08 14:00:07 · answer #8 · answered by lunachick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-11-08 13:45:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd have to research that. Organic would be the best way to go.
2006-11-08 13:43:52 · answer #10 · answered by quatrapiller 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋