Do vegetarians and vegans eat tomatos?

Question

I have been a vegetarian for four years now, i have always wonderd about tomatos because scientist are now putting fish genes in all tomatos so we are kinda eating parts of fish! so do vegetiarians and vegans eat tomatos? do you? and what do you think?

Answer 1

I eat fish and tomatoes.

Answer 2

This is a myth.
About 20 years ago, there was research to try to give tomatoes some resistance to cold by applying information from cold-water fish.
The genes were not removed from fish and implanted. Fish and tomatoes are not that close. Instead, scientists synthesized a plant version of the fish gene in question and inserted that into the tomato.
The experiment was a failure, and fish tomatoes were never sold commercially.

Yes, I eat tomatoes.

Answer 3

woow, im preeti dam sure a tomato is a fruit, haha, which is a pretti big part of what you eat when your a vegetarian (especially if your a vegan), i doubt their are many vegans that don't eat tomatoes because they are afraid of fish genes, i don't believe it.

Answer 4

hi, i'm vegetarian, not completely because i eat eggs so i'm eggetarian maybe. I used to be a non-veggie and used to eat fish, chicken, mutton, but now i've left it to preserve animals. You can eat the curry and chutney with rice, that's how we uually eat them. I don't know how egg goes with it, sorry, this is all i know! Sexy goat- it's not necessary. Many indians only eat vegetarian food and live long and healthy. Hope it helped :-)

Answer 5

Good grief. I had no idea. But is a fish gene a fish? What is it that makes an animal inedible to a vegetarian/vegan? Because it's alive? Because it shows fear? A gene might be part of a living thing, but is the gene itself alive? Is a fish gene in a tomato still a fish or is it part of the tomato? Leads to a lot of interesting and frustrating questions.

Answer 6

That is one of my biggest pet peeves.

The US government would rather give Monsanto free reign to do whatever they want than give citizens the right to choose if they want to eat genetically altered food or not.

Genetically altered food is not labeled in the US. This angers me. "Land of the free" indeed.

You could boycott tomatoes, but then you might be eating orangutan genes in potatoes. How would you know?

I cooked with a spice mix in a box that came from India; it clearly had a label that read "does not contain genetically altered food." What I wouldn't give to have labels like that on food products in the USA!

Answer 7

Tomatos are veggie, and we believe they are.

If you say scientist are now putting fish genes, and someone is eating without knowing, that is not his wrongs.

But once we know that there is such rumors, we must investigate such fact and stop eating such "poison" if true.

But...a true vegan...

not only stop eating it, but should CONDEMN such act (fish genes into tomatoes, injecting cow and pig hormones into poultries, inducing chemicals and hormones into cattle, etc).

(I stopped purchasing and consuming any dairy product once I knew the cruelty involve in dairy industry).

Answer 8

I am veggie and I eat tomatoes. It's from plants and healthy.

Answer 9

I think that if I were a vegetarian I would quit eating all the vegetables I grow in my garden. You see I rototill steer manure into the beds every spring. Does that mean I am eating cow?

Aren't you being a bit silly? I mean even for someone who denies millions of years of evolving into an omnivore this seems like a real stretch to me.

Answer 10

I eat tomatos.

Answer 11

Tomatos are fruits so only fruities can eat them