Do vegans eat truffles?

Only if they share the truffles with their pet dog or pig.

Not all vegans are against "explointing" animals in any way. Many have pets, for example. Most vegans is most likely against the dairy and egg industries because of the way the animals get treated. A truffle isn't an animal product, so it wouldn't automatically be banned from a vegan diet. However, some vegans might ban them from their diet.

I don't, but that's because I think it's stupid to pay $100 for a silly mushroom.

A happy dog will sniffle out truffles as will a happy pig.

A sick pig or dog will not to the activities he likes to do when he is well.

Dogs and pigs snuffle out truffles when they forage in the woods, it is pracrtically impossible to make a dog do this if he doesn't want to, if he is afraid etc.

When a dog is afraid to go over to the end of a field or wherever, he will not go, whether there is food there or not.

It's almost impossible to force an animal to do the instinctive things they like to do, if they're not willing to.

Like getting him to pee when he doesn't want to, or sniff another dogs' bum.

Truffles are also very rare and expensive and can't be made synthetically. As long as they can only come from woodland in deep countryside with real leaves and real mud on the ground, outside, I don't consider this is cruelty to animals at all.

Especially for this kind of work, it's different from hitting an ox to move a plough.

Not if they have animal proteins in them such as dairy or eggs. Not all vegans become vegan because of animals. Some do it for health reasons.

well truffles aren't meat.