A random thought I had. I think the answer is no, but I’m not that certain. Convince me please.
You really want to test the limits of this sub.
“No stupid questions, please”
No one is, in fact, allowed to do that.
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I would hope so since it is pretty impossible not to eat your own boogers. If you don’t know you swallow a lot of mucus, even if you are a serial nose blower, it just goes down your throat from the back of your nose.
Depends on how meaty they are?
There is no harm to the donor. Should be comparable to milk or honey.
There is harm from milk and honey, though, which is why vegans are against it.
Vegans and vegetarians are allowed to eat meat. They just choose not to. They are equally allowed to eat boogers. Most just choose not to.
Best answer. No one’s policing your veganism but yourself.
… in mixed company.
Yes.
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The main reasons for vegetarianism are a., to avoid killing or a.i unduly harming animals, particularly a.ii, without consent, b. to avoid environmental damage, or c., to save money.
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Because of point 1.a, vegetarians eat animal products, like milk, eggs and honey.
Under point 2., bogeys are clearly okay to eat as an animal product that doesn’t kill the animal that produces it. That’s probably sufficient for our purposes but lets check against 1. to make sure
No harm comes to you from eating your own bogeys (except indirect social harm if other people find out and want to stop hanging out with you), so that covers 1.a.i. Obviously you consent to eating them, so that covers a.ii, too. There’s zero environmental consequences to eating bogeys (b). Eating your own bogeys won’t cost any money, so that covers c.
In conclusion, go ahead and eat your bogeys, champ.
Just don’t do it near me.
Because of point 1.a, vegetarians eat animal products, like milk, eggs and honey.
The production of all three involves harm to the animals and is done without their consent.
Automatic milking machines prove otherwise. Cows stand in line to get milked and often have to be skipped because they’ve been milked already
The part they didn’t consent to was being in pain from overproduction of milk, which is something we imposed on them through selective breeding. If we didn’t do that, they’d just go about their merry ways making enough to feed their calves and stop making milk when they’ve grown enough to feed themselves.
They also don’t consent to being artificially inseminated and having their calves taken away from them.
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I think it’s vegans that have an issue with it I’d imagine. Pretty sure they don’t swallow either.
For most vegans and vegetarians, it is an ethical thing: don’t violate someone’s consent, especially not to murder, forcibly impregnate, torture, imprison, rape and eat them or their (unborn) children.
That’s why some vegans argue honey is vegan (despite being an animal product) because the bees aren’t exploited and can migrate anywhere if they so choose, while other vegans argue that honey is non-vegan because they disagree with that interpretation of beekeeping and they consider the bees to be suffering from common practices of beekeeping.
Technically, consensual cannibalism would be vegan, and definitely so would eating boogers. I hope this answers your question.
Vegetarian yes, vegan no.
edit: Y’alls know the basic, most commonly used definitions are just that vegetarians won’t eat animals but will consume other animal products, whereas veganism is about consuming no animals or animal products, right?
So, milk. Vegetarians can drink it, strict veganism prohibits it. Boogers are no different, an animal product.
I swear, kids these days.
Vegans can eat their own boogers. Their whole disposition is on the basis of ethical consumption and consent. A cow can’t consent to being milked. We’ve bred them and in a vegans eye’s, exploited them for so long that, that’s just the status quo. Similarly bees collect honey to feed themselves. They don’t understand we take what we deem is a surplus to them. So they never consented to share with us.
If you pick your own boogers, you consented to do so. That means it’s ethical to eat.
Ah ok, I got it. So yours are ok but your friend’s are off-limits, yeah?
If they consent it’s okay.
There are vegans who swallow semen.
Disgusting. Tell me where these vegans are so I can avoid them.
You’re generalizing one set of motives for all vegans. Veganism is a behavior, the reasons why they do it can vary from individual to individual.
As a categorization, though, the no-animal-products is the basic thing they all have in common. While some do make exceptions for different things, they’re still considered exceptions to the basic rule.
For all you know, it could be a religious observance.
