Yeast are living organisms that ferment sugars, producing carbon dioxide and alcohol, which causes the dough to rise. Once baked, the yeast cells die, so technically the bread itself isn’t alive – just the result of yeast metabolism.
IMO is the poster had a true shower thought not some “invented” shower thought. Early in the morning half awake this is exactly the kind of weird thought someone might have.
Vegans don’t have a problem eating fungus, including yeast and mushrooms. Yes, yeast is alive in the same way that plants are alive, and vegans have no problem eating plants. Aside from minerals, everything we eat is or was alive.
Vegans generally don’t eat anything that comes from any type of animal, living or dead.
They aren’t animals, so as long as none of the other ingredients are animal products bread is vegan.
Yeast doesn’t, as far as I know, have the capability to experience suffering. Unless you’re trying to unalive yourself, you have to eat something, and everything we eat was alive at one point. The goal then is often to minimize the suffering that we cause while still keeping ourselves alive
The word Vegan is derived from the word Vegetarian and just means a stricter vegetarian diet excluding animal products. It doesn’t state anything about not eating cultures. A lot of vegans even go out of their way to eat live cultures.
Veganism is pretty strict regarding meat and animal byproducts, but the closest thing to a dietary restriction on yeast due to ethical considerations is probably the Jainist diet. Jains are lacto-vegetarian but they also attempt to minimize harm to insects, fungi and root vegetables. They don’t restrict yeast to my knowledge, but as world religions go they are probably the most conscious about their impact on the life around them, to the extent that they don’t cook after dark in order to minimize killing insects who are drawn to the fire.
Vegans who do it for ethical reasons generally are sensocentrists, which mean they want to avoid pain or suffering, something that requires a complex nervous system. Living things which don’t have one, or it’s very primitive, can be eaten without remorse.
A comedian named Tim Nutt did a comedy central stand up back in the early 2000’s that had a few great jokes about how funny it would be to see someone protesting wheat. Worth a watch.
By that logic breathing is cruelty to animals as you inhale microorganisms with every breath and the enzymes in your body more or less immediately kill them if the environment in your body isn’t hostile to the organism anyways.
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Plants and fungi are alive too. Being alive isn’t the deciding factor for whether something is vegan.
No, vegans don’t eat animal products. They don’t avoid all life forms. Yeast is in the fungi kingdom, not the animal kingdom.
Plants are alive too, but those are also vegan. Well, except figs.
Yeast is not a plant nor an animal, and since my vegan friend considers mushrooms vegan, I’m gonna decide here and now that yeast is vegan, too 😉
I mean plants were alive too. Not what veganism is.
Wait until this guy finds out plants are alive, too.
Everything vegans eat is alive. Plants are alive.
Yeast is a fungus like mushrooms, and you forgot about plants. Review the definition of veganism, for your own sake.
Yeast are living organisms that ferment sugars, producing carbon dioxide and alcohol, which causes the dough to rise. Once baked, the yeast cells die, so technically the bread itself isn’t alive – just the result of yeast metabolism.
IMO is the poster had a true shower thought not some “invented” shower thought. Early in the morning half awake this is exactly the kind of weird thought someone might have.
What does “alive” have to do with veganism?
Bro it’s not vegan because a mammal worked to make it.
What do you think vegans eat? Rocks and dirt?
Just wait, someday we’ll discover that yeast is sentient.
No. It isn’t sentient. It’s a fungus. So basically, it’s more like a mushroom than a living creature.
Vegans eat living things like plants and fungus which includes yeast.
You are probably thinking of The Simpson’s joke about higher level vegans.
wait till OP finds out fruit and vegetables are alive
Yeast is a fungus. Yes it’s alive, but it’s not an animal. Mushrooms, yeast and other fungus are common in vegan diets.
Vegetables are alive too lol, you didn’t think this through
All food is/was alive. Plants are living things. Fungi are living things.
Vegans don’t eat things that can consciously suffer. If lab meat becomes real, a lot of vegans probably wouldn’t object to it.
Did OP forget about plants? Or just not understand how being alive works?
Yeah but they eat plants which are also alive, it’s just the animal kingdom they tend to avoid not the others.
Vegans don’t have a problem eating fungus, including yeast and mushrooms. Yes, yeast is alive in the same way that plants are alive, and vegans have no problem eating plants. Aside from minerals, everything we eat is or was alive.
Vegans generally don’t eat anything that comes from any type of animal, living or dead.
incredible lack of following a thought through. this is a true shower thought
Damn, you may need to go back to school mate. Sorry.
If you bake it fully, it isn’t alive anymore.
They aren’t animals, so as long as none of the other ingredients are animal products bread is vegan.
Yeast doesn’t, as far as I know, have the capability to experience suffering. Unless you’re trying to unalive yourself, you have to eat something, and everything we eat was alive at one point. The goal then is often to minimize the suffering that we cause while still keeping ourselves alive
The word Vegan is derived from the word Vegetarian and just means a stricter vegetarian diet excluding animal products. It doesn’t state anything about not eating cultures. A lot of vegans even go out of their way to eat live cultures.
Veganism is pretty strict regarding meat and animal byproducts, but the closest thing to a dietary restriction on yeast due to ethical considerations is probably the Jainist diet. Jains are lacto-vegetarian but they also attempt to minimize harm to insects, fungi and root vegetables. They don’t restrict yeast to my knowledge, but as world religions go they are probably the most conscious about their impact on the life around them, to the extent that they don’t cook after dark in order to minimize killing insects who are drawn to the fire.
I don’t think you understand what veganism is
Vegans who do it for ethical reasons generally are sensocentrists, which mean they want to avoid pain or suffering, something that requires a complex nervous system. Living things which don’t have one, or it’s very primitive, can be eaten without remorse.
Vegans avoid animal products (whether directly harvested from animals or not). Yeast is a kind of fungi. Bread is vegan
yeast is a fungi… vegans eat mushrooms, the education system has really gone to shit huh
Carrots are alive. So are brussels sprouts. They are just not intelligent.
No sir we bake it first, so we use heat to deactivate the yeast in the bread dough first
Being vegan isn’t about eating things that aren’t alive, it is about eating things they don’t care about.
If plants are alive, does that mean vegetables aren’t vegan?
Hey, guys, I found the person who never passed biology.
A comedian named Tim Nutt did a comedy central stand up back in the early 2000’s that had a few great jokes about how funny it would be to see someone protesting wheat. Worth a watch.
By that logic breathing is cruelty to animals as you inhale microorganisms with every breath and the enzymes in your body more or less immediately kill them if the environment in your body isn’t hostile to the organism anyways.
this person thinks plants are not living species smh