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

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    There are some animal that you can eat that are vegan.

    The fig wasp for example is a tiny wasp that climbs into fig flowers to lay their eggs in them, polinating them in the process. Once the flower turns into a fruit, the eggs hatch and climb out of it. The dead mother wasp stays behind.

    Since the wasp dying in the fig is required both for the plant and the wasp to reproduce they are considered vegan to eat.

    So the next time you eat a fig, take a closer look. Maybe you’ll see the dead wasp (or maybe you’ve already swallowed it)

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      Do vegans generally accept that figs are okay to eat?

      I grew up with a crazy vegan mother who dragged me to the outings of her crazy vegan club and they were all vehemently against eating figs. We don’t even live in a place where figs are common import, but they were so mad about it.