They don’t have a brain really and kinda just float there. Do they even feel pain?

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    Jellyfish eat animals and animal byproducts, so no, they are not vegan.

    Jokes aside, often vegans follow dietary restrictions for reasons other than an ethical or moral belief against causing pain. Many vegans don’t even eat honey, so I imagine jellyfish is pretty safely in non-vegan territory.

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      I thought your first sentence was serious at first, since it genuinely makes sense to me. If growing a jellyfish causes animal suffering, I can see why a vegan may reject to eat it for ethical reasons.

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        Can’t agree fully.

        My mother has a hive in the garden. The bees pollinate our garden, live lives as nice as bee’s lives can be and, at the end of the year, we take some of their honey and replace it with sugar, which the bees don’t care about.

        It’s a win-win, nobody is hurt, nobody is taken advatage of.

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        I have heard there are vegans who won’t eat figs since there’s a decent chance of a dead wasp in a fig due to how fig wasps procreate.

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          Figs you buy in stores don’t have dead wasps in them. But yes, there varieties of figs that do and there aren’t vegan.

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          they feel pain, communicate, reproduce, move around, why are plants any different than animals? honest question

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            Plants may react to damage, but that isn’t the same thing as pain. Plants don’t have a brain or a central nervous system.