Can vegans eat bread?

Question

I have a vegan friend, but I saw him eating a sandwich. The bread contains yeast (albeit dead). Yeast doesn't photosynthasise, so I would think of it as an animal rather than a plant. The yeast is only used to help the bread rise, but the yeast is never extracted, so the dead yeast cells still exist in the bread. Does this not mean that vegans can't eat bread? Can any vegans out there enlighten me?

We've discussed this at length in the PhD office and yeast is definately considered an animal.

this is a physics PhD office, and we don't do much biology! In our little bubble here we assumed there were only two sides to the living coin: flora and fauna. I guess this is why biologists and physicists don't get on. In our opinion all life should be able to be classified as either plant or animal (depending on the energy source, i.e. from the sun = plant)

Answer 1

You need to move PhD offices if you all think yeast is an animal !

Yeast's nearest comparable family is fungus.

Its growth rate is similar to organisms hence for many years, even as recently as 10 years ago, many people thought it was an animal.

However, it is quite clearly not an animal

However, most processed bread has milk in it so, for that reason, vegans need to be careful about which bread they eat.

Answer 2

Yes, vegans can eat bread. Besides, yeast is not a member of the Kingdom Animalia so it is not an animal. Yeasts are eukaryotic microorganisms classified in the kingdom Fungi. What kind of PhD office is this being discussed in?

Answer 3

Yes vegans can eat bread. Yeast isnt really considerd an animal. Most vegans just stay away from actual "Animals" and things that come from animals. They stick with the plant & fruit life, everything from "Nature". If your really intrested in what Vegans/ vegitarians eat, search for it on MSN on Type of Vegatarians. It will bring up alot more than what u think are out there too and it will also explain their diets

Answer 4

Yeast is more closely related to animal than to plants but are actually a fungus. They are usually single celled and produce asexually. I am sure that you get your fill of single celled dietary supplements by breathing air or drinking less than pure water so to worry about eating it in your bread would be a considerable exercise in semantics, philosophy, and futility. You would not able to take antibiotics and would have to start protesting the sale of filtered water for killing single celled organisms; at which point you would start drinking free range water get an infection and die and we would never have to worry about your incessant protest anymore. Bottom line; if you have a problem killing single celled organisms then go crawl in a hole and wait for death by one because they have no remorse about infecting you (the hole would be for the rest of our benefit.)

Answer 5

Only if you can stand the endless nightmares of the wheat dying when cut down and screaming their death cries.
You'll need to visit Yahoo! Shrinks forever if you even eat one slice.
Not to mention all those poor little yeast animals rebelling in your tummy to try to escape their prison! And slowly disintegrating, rotting, putrifying in your flesh...
Rotting your brain - And bringing you to Yahoo! Shrinks!
Full Circle, as the Apache would say. The Full Circle of Life and Death.
Mindlessly

Answer 6

ie we go on extending the logic for vegetarianism i think we can not eat any food.So veg is limited to where you see live food being consumed

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast#Baking

Answer 8

yesss,,,,,most vegan only avoid beef,chicken,lamb,egg,milk,etc as far i know most of them eat sea food.