Is human flesh vegan if given freely by its owner?
I’m a former vegan, and when I was a vegan I was pretty hardcore, attending regular EarthSave potluck meetings, making most of my food from scratch, etc. Anyway, jessamyn’s answer is exactly right. People are vegans for different reasons, but being a vegan means that you don’t consume anything made out of, or made from, animals. It’s got nothing to do with ‘consent’ – as joannemerriam aptly puts it – since getting consent isn’t an issue. For me, it was to a large extent about health. Yes, it also bothered me that I was indirectly harming animals, but that had more to do with issues around how they were treated and slaughtered than the actual fact of consumption. When I was a vegan, I did go to a lot of trouble to avoid foods that could possibly contain fragments of bone, insects, or whatever. For example, certain kinds of apple polish supposedly contain insects, so I only ate apples that were not shiny. I also didn’t wear leather or silk clothing and in general tried to stay as pure ab
