Yes, as long as the producer consents
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It actually gets worse.. i saw this post here on lemmy.
When someone replied to her exactly that, she said she "didn't always consent because she doesn't always feel like it but she does it for her baby, is that still vegan??".
She was looking for fight imo.
Yeah, she probably was. No one argues against a baby having milk, otherwise the baby would literally die.
Is roadkill vegan
Did roadkill consent?
How about all the bugs you splat on your windshield?
By definition you can eat and drink human produce and still be vegan. So you could be a cannibal and also a vegan.
eat the rich!
Yeah I think as long as consent is given. Animals can't give consent, which makes it immoral to eat them (according to vegans).
The IT crowd comes to mind.
"No-- he was a very nice cannibal."
Humans are animals.
That's the point.
Veganism, as far as I can tell, is not so much about not consuming animal products as it is about not consuming anything that causes harm to animals.
By that logic, you would keep your child on breast milk as long as possible, to avoid having to switch to cow milk or formula.
You are what you eat
Well?
Breast milk is the only milk that can be vegan. It’s all about consent.
Almond, cashew, oat, soy...
Those plants didn't consent, so...
I can speak from experience that almonds are kinky little sluts and like to be milked.
Euphemistic milks?
Which would mean there's the possibility of this new short horror story I just wrote:
I noticed two new options in the dairy aisle today: human breast milk, vegan and non-vegan.
o_o
So meat is vegan as long as the cows consent?
Man, Hitchhiker's Guide really was ahead of its time.
Technically yes. But of course they would (and can't really) do that. But you could also eat stuff like roadkill and it's vegan. Veganism as a moral philosophy has nothing to do with food, it's about respecting and granting animals the same rights as humans (as far as applicable, not stuff like voting).
Yes, and vegans can also be cannibals for this same reason, as long as the person consents.
It all depends on if you consider yourself an animal, which, technically, we are.
I'm more animal than most
Only if you define vegan as to strictly avoid any animal product (and define humans as animals). A somewhat looser Definition says to avoid animal exploitation.
So a product made by a non-domesticised animal in a natural way - e.g. Penguin guano - could be seen as vegan. The animal produces it anyway and the product isn't won through keeping the animal captive and / or "stealing" from it.
After all I wouldn't be too strict with definitions here.
You can drink from a well as that just gets water straight from the ground. Which well would be full of breast milk though?
Only if the mother is a vegetal
Drinking milk without exploitation, instead of imposing suffering on millions of beings? Get the boat
What? I'm vegan myself. What does all of this have to do with the post?
Sorry fellow vegan, the post made it seem like human breast milk is somehow worse than or comparable to "conventional" cow's milk.
Forgiven 🌱♥️
If I bite my nails am I not vegan anymore? /s
I can excuse slavery but I draw the line at kink
You can excuse slavery?
No
Renzo.
That meme is so misused. Are adults drinking breast milk so weird?