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Avocados aren’t vegan?

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Tunnockssnowballs · 13/10/2018 17:50

AIBU to think this is a bit OTT or should Vegans think twice about eating avocados and almonds because bees are harmed and killed in the farming process.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6269825/amp/Avocados-almonds-broccoli-NOT-vegan-dieters-favorite-ingredients-break-rules.html

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Jux · 15/10/2018 13:24

Figs and 'fig wasps', from Wiki:

Aristotle recorded in his History of Animals that the fruits of the wild fig (the caprifig) contain psenes (fig wasps); these begin life as grubs (larvae), and the adult psen splits its "skin" (pupa) and flies out of the fig to find and enter a cultivated fig, saving it from dropping. He believed that the psen was generated spontaneously; he did not recognise that the fig was reproducing sexually and that the psen was assisting in that process

leesylou · 15/10/2018 13:28

If you look up Vegan in the dictionary it states a person who doesn’t eat or use animal products, so maybe a true vegan would not eat those things?

Jux · 15/10/2018 15:04

Moderation in all things.

MrsPeel · 15/10/2018 21:57

They should not eat any plant where insects have been killed which pretty much rules out all of them. Will nobody think of the aphids!

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