Per the title. If an animal dies out in nature without any human involvement, shouldn’t it be considered vegan to harvest any of the useful parts from it (not nessicarily meat, think hide), since there was no human-caused suffering involved?

Similarly, is driving a car not vegan because of the roadkill issue?

Especially curious to hear a perspective from any practicing moral vegans.

Also: I am not vegan. That’s why I’m asking. I’m not planning on eating roadkill thank you. Just suggesting the existence of animal-based vegan leather.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You can do pretty much whatever you want man…

    Like “vegan” isn’t even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.

    You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.

    Or you can make up your own name and rules.

    People searching for labels they like and then conforming to every fucking aspect of that label and nothing else, doesn’t work out well.

    So please, if you want to eat roadkill just do it.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        83·
        2 months ago

        but did you want to answer the question

        I did…

        it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to

        Every reason why you can/can’t do something and be Vegan, is because the guy who made the word up ~80 years ago decided it should be like that

        You’re acting like it’s a math or science, like it’s based on logic or something…

        It’s not, so the answer to “why” is essentially “because the founder said that”?

        Does that make sense now?