Yeast liberation.... was fraggle time..as opposed to hammer time....

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, Gary Dean <country_man52> wrote:

> I don't think beer and wine are vegan , are they?

> i have never made beer but have made wine many times-

> and yeast is used for fermentation. Yeast are little

> critters that turn sugar into alcohol. i guess I

> consider myself a vegan but am not fanatical about it.

>

 

Oh no! Not the 'yeast question' again! Here's one I posted somewhere

or other earlier...

 

" Yeast is I believe classed as a fungii, and fungii are a seperate

kingdom from both the animal and plant orders.

 

I have heard yeast classified as an 'animal' before, but this is a

technicallity based on the definition that a plant has cell walls

and is able to manufacture it's own energy, wheras an animal is not.

 

If it is an animal, it's an extremely simple one on a parr with

amoebii, bacteria and virii, and on a sentience scale probably

rating infinitely lower than an apple, which I expect most vegans

would have no problems with eating? In fact as yeasts are airbourne

and all around us all the time, when you eat an apple you are 99.9%

certain to be eating yeasts on the apples surface at the same

time. You will also be constantly breathing them in, so even a

breatharian would be guilty of yeast-murder :-) "