Food containing fungus - can it be identified as a vegetarian food !!?

Question

Fungus is a living organism, it’s a eukaryote cell, meaning it’s an organism that is build from cell structures similar to ours, unlike bacteria, viruses and so..... Which are prokaryote cells.

Fungus are also heterotroph , meaning that unlike plant kingdom , heterotroph do not make their own carbon , instead it requires organic substrates to get its carbon for growth and development - In this world only animals and fungus are heterotrophic.

And so many more attributes to describe fungus as very far from being identified as a vegetarian food.

E.g. of fungus usage::: Yeast is a fungus . Soya sauce is fermented boiled Soya bean with a type of fungus.

The Dude - hey dude then how come egg that contains no nervous system is identified as non-vege

DUDE , my query is not about Veganism but vegetarianism - and I found the most populous of vegetarians are of budhist and hindu origins and they claim egg is non vegetaian food

Aviator - being vegetarian for spiritual reasons ( most of them ), got nothing to do with nervous systems - since it was not known when these ancient philosophy was created

The Dude - thank you , I am also a vegetarian for the past eight years and I too consume egg - but its those critics who claims tat a real vegetarian should not eat egg or fungus product - I was confuce hence I ask such

philosophyangel -- WOW , tats mesmerizing , and I thought I was living in the jurassic era when it comes to apprehending what Vegetarianism is all about. Thank You Sooo Much !!

Thank you santhi !

Answer 1

Well , it all depends ! – OK – we understood that vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacean, and slaughter by-products. But then what type of vegetarianism are you talking about:

Ovo-lacto vegetarianism – consumes egg, dairy and honey

Lacto vegetarianism – who don’t consume egg but ok with honey and dairy.

Ovo vegetarianism- who is allowed to consume honey and egg but not dairy

Veganism – cant and don’t consume egg, dairy or honey.



Then – you need to acknowledge and classify the reasons why one practices vegetarianism: The reasons for choosing Vegetarianism may be related to moral, religious, cultural, ethical, aesthetic, environmental, social, economic, political, or health concerns.

about fungus being a vege or non-vege food - look here
http://www.ivu.org/congress/2000/jainism.html

Answer 2

Usually the standard for vegetarians is not the origin of carbon, but whether the organism has a nervous system.

EDIT: Actually, vegetarians do eat eggs. Only vegans don't eat eggs, not because they believe it's cruel to the eggs, but because they believe it's cruel to the chicken who produced the egg.

EDIT 2: Well, I was raised vegetarian and ate eggs. I also live in a city with about a 30% vegetarian population, and most vegetarians here eat eggs and cheese. The egg/cheese issue is specifically *why* a distinction exists between vegan and vegetarian.

Answer 3

Yes, it is true that fungal cells (eukaryotes) are more similar to human cells than are bacterial cells. Indeed, the second life form that materialized on planet Earth after the virus was the fungal cell. This does not make them "animals" though, and in fact they are good sources of vegetable protein for vegetarians. They contain a significant about of keratin. They do not have a nervous system and can't be said to be sentient beings. Mushrooms are in their own category but are plants of a kind. As for fungi (yeast and moulds) in general, there are millions of species (some of which colonize your body along with various other ubiquitious microbes) that exist as cells or colonies of cells. Most are benign and useful (and even edible) but some are disease-causing.

The role of fungi in the cycle of life is to degrade organic matter back into its constitutent elements (carbon). That is, the role of fungus is to make things rot away and thus are nature's recycling agent. This is why mushrooms are often found on rotting trees and in peat (and why mould grows on bread and old fruit, etc.) Human beings have learned to use yeasts and fungi to change the chemical structure of things (to make wine, cheese, soy, etc.) and also use them medicinally to counter other types of microbes.

Answer 4

The dude is right. And I think they consider things that are going to become an individual with a nervous system count.

Answer 5

They always seem to put mushrooms on vegetarian pizzas.

Answer 6

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