Why can vegans eat yeast bread?

Question

I understand the vegan diet avoids meat and dairy, and even honey. Why is bread (yeast) allowed? I would think that eating yeast as a living organism would be more of a violation of the tenets of the diet than eating something like honey. Can somebody explain this?

Answer 1

Good question! I see one reply that says they are one celled animals and belong to another class. Wonder how many cells is the cut off point? What about vaccines, golly my mind is hurting, got to stop!

Answer 2

Vegan Yeast

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Is Yeast Vegan

Answer 6

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Answer 7

a lot of vegan still eat bread coz most only dont eat any ANIMAL products i no im ok with eating yeast. but i do no some vegans that wont eat yeast because its a bacteria or something that alive. btu i doesnt feel in the same way that animals and humans do which i why i dont mind it.

Answer 8

Yeast is a fungus. ALL plants are living organisms so, unless your diet consists of rocks, the only way to eat something is to eat something that is alive (even honey has bacteria in it). Vegans choose not to eat anything that involves the killing of ANIMALS (as in, anything that has a face), or anything that involves the USE of animals (that includes eggs, dairy, and honey - which is made by bees held in captivity [of sorts]).

For the record, I am not a vegan.

Answer 9

Yeast isn't an animal. It's a single-celled organism most similar to a plant.

Answer 10

Well, it's all a moot point if the vegans in question don't sterilize everything they eat. Even if they do, thousands of protozoans (one-celled animals) are being ingested and killed in the process, along with microscopic worms, eggs and larvae of all sorts, and tiny crustaceans and mollusks...Ewwww! Thus while they might THINK they are vegans, they are most likely not.

Yeast is classified as a fungus, and there is ample reason enough NOT to eat yeast. It is unpredictable, at best, and it is linked with all manner of suspicious diseases, such as Crohn's disease, colitis, gastritis...etc. While yeast is not animal, and technically vegans can eat it, that doesn't necessarily make it a good idea.

Now, if they drive a Vega, or if they live in or near Las Vegas, then that's another story entirely! I always did wonder about the vegan's motives for wanting to be vegans.

Answer 11

Scientists classify yeasts as fungi (like mushrooms), so there's no problem with it from a vegan point of view.