Why can vegans eat yeast and not drink milk?

Okay, I'm not touching the yeast & plants part, let vegans explain that one, but as somebody who has breast fed I can tell you there is a huge difference between choosing to feed your baby naturally from your breast & being involuntarily hooked up to a milking machine.

However, I am pro dairy, but just pointing out the obvious.

Do Vegans Eat Yeast

Because yeast isn't an animal by-product, and milk is.

Yeast is bacteria - which is a micro-organism, to claim that they don't eat those is ridiculous they're in pretty much everything, including the air. Vegans can eat mushrooms and plants - and most see no ethical reasons not to, so I guess some stricter vegans may not eat yeast or mushrooms due to them being living organisms, but if they lived by that law they'd die pretty soon..

Yes, milking does hurt the cows. They are only milked because they were forced to be pregnant. Since the calf is taken away to the veal industry there is no baby to nurse, and if there was no baby to nurse the milk would dry up. People keep them lactating and milk them for hours on end with no relief which causes many dangerous and painful infections. And yes, vegan mothers do breastfeed. Yes, we have a face but it is OUR choice to breast feed (the cow has no choice but to loose her baby to the veal industry and to be painfully milked then forcefully impregnated again just to have it all happen again). Plus it is so natural to breastfeed your baby. I will never understand the " feed your child milk from another species because breastfeeding is bad" way of thinking. I can't answer you about the yeast.. all I know (since I am vegan) is I do put yeast in my homemade bread. I think it really matters on how strict a vegan is. Two vegans will never be the same. We all have different reason to become vegan and we all have many different beliefs we live by.

Vegans do eat living organisms. If they didn't they would be dead. Yeast is a micro-organism it has no sentience. Milk from commercial dairy farms is filled with puss from the artificial lactation. Milk cows lead a pretty miserable existence being pumped up on corn and chemicals to force copious amounts of lactation. Besides cows milk is built for baby cows, not for baby humans. That is why many vegan mothers BF.

--- According to most vegans, they do not eat any living organism

Everyone, vegan or not, must eat living organisms to survive. I find it difficult to believe that someone would claim that they do not eat living organisms...all that would be left to eat are rocks, and even those have living bacteria on them.

---- However, plants and fungus (yeast) are living organisms.

Yes, but the reason that vegans choose to eat this this is because:

1. It's necessary for survival.

2. Plants, fungus and yeast do not have central nervous systems or brains, meaning that they cannot be exploited, nor do they feel pain when killed. Animals on the other hand are sentient.

----Why do they eat those and not milk which doesn't harm the cows?

I choose not to drink milk because I believe that I don't have a right to take a creatures milk away from its baby. Cows, like every other mammal, produce milk in order to feed their offspring. A cows milk belongs to her calf, just like cats milk is for kittens and human milk is for infants. Additionally, if I were to drink milk, I would be directly supporting the veal industry, which I want no part in. Lastly, cows most definitely do feel pain from being overmilked. The condition known as "bovine mastitis", or painful swelling and pussing of the udders, is common in dairy cows.

---- Also, if you are a vegan mother and you lactate, do you breast feed or not?

Yes! Breastfeeding is entirely natural. A mothers milk is meant for it's child.

___You are a living organism with a face, so why do you allow your child to eat from you?

Are you suggesting that its unnatural to breast-feed yet entirely natural to drink the milk from an entirely different species? Human milk is meant for human children. Too choose not to breastfeed would be denying that child of both natural nutrition and increased immune support.

I am vegan, have been around vegans for decades, and have never heard a single one say they do not eat "living organisms." You are uneducated on many fronts. Milking does not help cows. Cows are artificially impregnated. When they give birth, their babies are taken away so you can drink their baby milk instead. The male calves supply the veal industry. When cows have problems, they're culled, killed, and supply about 1/5 of the beef in the U.S. Cow milk is for baby cows. We do not need the milk of any other mammal species, and we do not need our own mothers milk after we're babies. 3/4 of the population will lose the ability to digest it properly as they age, as they stop producing lactase because they no longer have a biological need for mama's milk.

Veganism has nothing to do with a mother naturally breastfeeding her baby unless she's artificially impregnated, held captive, has her baby taken away, and is milked to give it to someone else. It has to do with minimizing suffering and exploitation of animals as mere property.

Whenever someone makes fun, as you are, it gives me a chance to give this answer, and I usually get a message from someone later down the road who read it and says, "Wow, I had no idea. I'm thinking of going vegan now." So thanks in advance for helping to make new vegans. That's pretty much how I went vegan too. Peace.

Yeast lives the way a plant lives, bacteria lives, cells live, etc. It's not a being capable of feelings. Feeding your own child BY CHOICE is different than eating dairy from a cow that is exploited on a dairy farm. You need to read up on factory farms to understand the severity of the treatment of animals, and the hormones they are given to produce high amounts of milk.

I thought Vegans didn't want to hurt animals?

I'm not sure about cows but I know that humans get an oxytocin rush (love hormone) from breastfeeding and since cows usually go to be milked voluntarilly, maybe its the same for them. Is it bad for a cow to feed its baby ?

Comparing the suffering of cows to the suffering of micro-organisms is ridiculous. If you are also one of those people who think cows need to be milked, you need to do some research.

As for the vegan breastfeeding thing, mothers milk is for the baby. Cows milk is for baby cows and human milk is for their young. Somewhere along the way people began to think that drinking cows milk is natural. It's far from it. If your dog has a litter of puppies you don't milk her into your child's cereal bowl. That sounds really gross. Well to me taking milk from a cow when it was meant for it's young is gross to me. You may not understand that, but some of us do.