To ask: what do Buddhists and vegans do about nits?

[flatdweller22]

Well?

Shave our heads.

Presumably kill them the same as everyone else. Thry might feel incredibly guilty as its technically 'murder' but its for the sake of someones health. Its like intestinal worms, bed bugs, fleas etc. Creatures considered parasites they are probably more lenient with as they cause health issues and illness and arent self sustaining without a "host".

Or that.

Comb them out and set them free in grass

That's a guess btw

Well as one doesn't eat nits I doubt vegans have any problems

You need to Google what a vegan is love.

I'm better Buddhist or vegan but I won't use pesticides on dd. Tea tree shampoo is good but quite astringent. I just do the conditioner and comb out method - it works really well.

The Dali Lama has nits??????????

Neither!!! Fucking phone - seriously questioning the auto correct on this thing

Vegans also use cruelty free cosmetics, and non-animal sourced clothes and other items, because of their opposition to animal exploitation for human convenience.

It really isn't just food.

So I'll hazard a wild guess about who needs to be sent to the re-education camp.

PENFOLD I don't know but he does have a cat apparently. I know this as it's my friend on facebook

Movingonup you also need to have a little google re the principle of veganism, love

Vegans are against harm to any living thing moving on .. any vegans I've met are anyway

Well "setting them free in the grass" is just another way of killing them, so I guess ideally not catching them in the first place? A Buddist's shaven head should help with that.

Wait, what? The Dalai Lama's cat has a facebook page? There is SO much I don't know about the world.

Buddhism and Hinduism have hierarchies of living creatures. Nits and other insects are near the bottom - so you should try to avoid harming them where possible, but not at the expense of your own life.

"Vegans also use cruelty free cosmetics, and non-animal sourced clothes and other items, because of their opposition to animal exploitation for human convenience."

There are a few different types of Vegan.

Some don't want to eat animals, so don't, but may not follow a whole Vegan lifestyle.

I'm following a Vegan lifestyle, so I try to make all decisions taking my principles into account.

Like a pp, I would use tea tree, coconut and comb method.

I once posted how gardening is now a ongoing ethical nightmare, because were others see massive weeds on paving stones, I see a complete tiny ecosystem. I have a rat eating the bird's food, I often chase it with a brush, but then that is practising speciesism. Every time I have food that goes out of date (my children eat meat), really I should be putting it out for the rat.

Depending on what school of Buddhism you practise, it is ok to kill to stop the creature from causing more suffering so they have a chance to be reincarnated as something higher.

They encourage them off their heads with a trail of tofu, like Elliot tempting ET out of the shed with M&Ms.

"Like a pp, I would use tea tree, coconut and comb method."

Why?

Birds, you do realise that your rat, singular, is probably a thriving colony of plural rats, all living healthy lives and breeding big strong babies every few months..........

*Well as one doesn't eat nits I doubt vegans have any problems hmm

You need to Google what a vegan is love.*

Vegans neither use or eat leather and wool, its not the op who needs to google

Thanks everyone. I am enjoying both the very informative and very funny answers! It doesn't help that, in an effort to not make DS feel yukky, I explained that nits are 'like temporary hair pets'.

haha.....they obviously kill them

they won't admit that though