OT: Marmite

[Martin]

Not far from flesh eating plants like sundew.

[Martin]

vegas £$%^

[Roger Hayter]

However, he could be including protozoons among "stuff like that". They are more akin to animals, but, apart from parasites,[1] they don't have much impact on our diet compared to yeasts and bacteria.

[1] with parasites, it is more our diet having an impact on us, really.

[Roger Hayter]

But I think their evolution is long way away from animals or plants.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Mushrooms are not vegetables either.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Fungi....

[Martin]

Mrs T mistook her cabinet for vegetables.

[Bob Eager]

Why? No meat products in Marmite, unless you consider yeast a living organism.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Of course it is.

[Tim Streater]

Plants are living organisms.

[Max Demian]

If a vege has worms, who is eating who?

[Tim Streater]

You sure they have worms on Vega?

[Roger Hayter]

No, as I said. But I am presuming that vegetarians want to avoid eating animals rather than specifically confine their diet to vegetables. Otherwise they wouldn't eat eggs and milk. I believe vegans are happy to eat fungi too. Even those who won't eat honey.

[Roger Hayter]

As is indeed any Brassica species. I expect he meant it wasn't an animal, even a unicellular one.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Frankly what veggies will and wont eat is getting seriously boring.

I'll stick to not eating marmite.

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[Tim Streater]

It's always been seriously boring. Even worse is the assumption by some that being a veggie fusspot is somehow morally superior.

[Martin]

+1

[Mr. Marmite]

-1 'Tis the nectar of the Gods...