A question about vegan diet. Please don't be offended!?

Question

Do vegans eat vegitables that were fertilized with animal waste? Or do they grow their own vegitables?

or special fertilizer like compost?

I wasn't implicating hypocrisy, I was just curious if they were against using animal fertilizer and how they go about avoiding it.

Answer 1

vegans is a general term. so it would depend on how ( for lack of a better term) extreme they are. and also what is available in their area. some will grow almost all their own food (depending on yard size), some go to grocery stores that they have checked into and know the operation, some go to any old grocery store and buy frozen or fresh or canned. just depends on preferance.

Answer 2

Vegans do not eat animals (flesh) or animal by-products (milk, cheese, eggs, butter etc.)
There are many substitutes for these foods. I'm sure a lot of vegans consume vegetables that were fertilized with animal waste, as this is a fairly widespread method of fertilizing crops.

Some vegans may grow their own vegetables, and most would probably like to, but growing your own is by no means a requirement!

To implicate a hypocrisy argument against vegans for eating crops fertilized with animal waste is somewhat ridiculous. I mean, the cow poop is a by-product of all the beef that omnivores are eating anyway. Essentially, this is a waste product that has to be disposed of. Cow poop is a benign fertilizer when compared to chemical fertilizers made in a factory. I think most arguments like these are just trying to discredit vegans at any cost, and are really skirting the bigger issue - directly taking animal lives so one may live upon their flesh.

Also, some animal waste can be used on crops that are certified organic.

Answer 3

I don't believe that animals should be raised for food but if people that do are going to create tons and tons of waste, it should go back into the soil instead of a landfill.

There's nothing "unvegan" about eating food grown with animal fertilizers. If isn't considered vegan, not pile of dirt is vegan and neither is anything grown from it because all soil contains elements that were once part of an animal, great or small.

Answer 4

The only way anybody could actually be vegan is if they grow and proudce their own food. Did you know that the plows that tend to grain fields run over and murder tons and tons of woodland critters? So every time oyu eat a piece of bread, you'll be nibbling on little traces of bunny blood. Here are just a few of the thigns you probably use that harm animals:
Toothpaste, film( contains gelatine), certain hairbrushes, yogurt, chewing gum, gummy candies such as gummy bears or gummy worms, cheese (contains rennet, which is derived from the stomach of dead baby cows), most gravy, perfume or cologne, and much much more.


I'm not a vegetarian. I eat meat every day and I LOVE IT. There's somethign about pressing your teeth into a nice juicy slab of cow that really puts me in a good mood. So instead of being a hypocrit, join the rest of us and stuff a piece of serloin in your mouth.

Answer 5

When I buy something organic, it's hard to know what the producers used to fertilize it. Yes, I'd rather find veganically (vegan+organic) grown foods, but I'll take organic over conventional in most cases.