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

[flatdweller22]

Well?

Ha ha and some of you militants.

Nothing wrong with my Googling

My typing leaves a little to be desired though.

Loving some of these answers. I'll try the tofu one when I get a chance.
I don't eat animal products because humans force them into cruel living conditions and often kill them inhumanly. If my child has nits which is horrible for a child, and can pass round the whole school. I will kill the bloody bastards. Let's be real. I hover dust mite, tread on ants by accident. I'll swot a mosquito that's about to bite me.
We can't all be saints.

LEM the Dali Lama has a cat and said cat is on Facebook? I'm blown away, massive respect to the gentleman and his cat. Pen & Fold are in awe

Olive oil doesn't kill nits it just sends them to sleep so you can comb them out of your hair

I want to be the Dalai Lama's cats friend!!!! Link anyone?

Really by some of these definitionitions vegans should not even have nits since they must not use any animal product EVER

lol at temporary hair pets

temporary hair pets that are GOING TO BE MURDERED

ok maybe don't mention that to him
say you are helping loosen them and set them free down the plughole

I am a vegetarian, but if insects attack me, I fight back.

Buddhists are allowed to fight back if attacked, I am pretty sure.

Not murdered, liberated!

Liberated from the tyranny of being forced to be hair pets.

So it's self defence?

I'm a Buddhist and although DS hasn't had nits yet I have nitty grittied him when they went round nursery and I would kill them if he got them, I wouldn't let my child walk around with nits!
Similarly, I just had to blitz the house as we had a flea infestation. I'd rather not have to kill anything but I have to look after my family too and I do apologise and pray afterward I know that sounds weird

I'm also not vegetarian (not many of my Buddhist family are) but we don't eat meat during the mourning period after someone passes

Picknmiss. You pray after you would need to remove nits. I totally respect you that's amazing. But I'm still a bit like wow 😳.

Veganism is about doing everything possible to avoid the use of animals and their products. This is the definition of vegan according to the Vegan Society:

"A philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."

We killed nits, and kill other parasites. deterring them as far as possible is always preferable from any point of view. I avoid killing intruding wasps and other one off visitors, rescue worms from pavements, but self preservation allows for killing parasites and taking medicines.

Rather than suggesting posters google: www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism

I like the explanation of self defence because it is really. Only a mad person would sit infested with nits, fleas, etc in a protest not to harm living creatures.

Ha ha ha, I did say I know it sounds weird!!

If you've got nits, it's self defence surely? I'd get rid of the nits the same as anyone else, just like I'd kick a biting dog or swat away a mosquito.

Ah, so there are improper vegans, too?
I know a vegan who is not bothered about animal cruelty, or wearing leather, etc.

Only some Jains can claim the moral high ground. Everyone else is speciest.

Never mind facebook - the Dalai Lama's cat has a series of books. Also, a twitter account

Yes, I remember an elderly Jain, a friend's granny, looking at me (self-righteous teenage vegan) at me with horror as I ate potato curry.

We are buddhist and my husband has been known to sit knowingly with mosquitos biting him and letting them have his blood! That is an act of caring about that insect and feeling that it's wishes to be happy are in essence just the same as our wishes to be happy. But he's stronger than me! I'd just try to gently get them off me. I haven't heard as the pp says that there are hierarchies in Buddhism, I've always learned that all beings are important and because of a belief in reincarnation, then that nit or fly or whatever has in the past been my mother, my friend, my child etc etc. And there is also negative karma associated with killing so we try our best not to kill and purify all the previous killing of living beings we have done. Of course however we will step on insects or kill them with our cars by accident. This is still a negative action according to the law of karma but since the intention was not to harm the effect is not as bad. So my wee one is only a toddler so we've never had the nits issue yet, I guess we will try to avoid but work out the least harmful path we can if we come across it. To not deal with it and have your child pass it on to other kids would not be a kind act either of course!

Haha at pets. My daughter once told me to stop de nitting her as they were her pets and she was making Nit town on her head. Unfortunately I rampaged through nit town regardless. So sad.

Oh if we're going to be twats about this then I see your link and raise you the following:

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/vegan

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegan

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vegan

Nits and lice are neither food nor animal products. If your particular brand of veganism extends to something beyond that, good for you :)

We had a nit city once. That was a bit of a parenting low point for me.