Do vegans consider all multicellular organisms to be animals?

Vegans, by definition, attempt to MINIMIZE exploitation of other living creatures. It doesn't mean that we never harm other creatures. It means we try not to harm or even exploit other creatures, "where possible and practical".

I have no more, but equally no less, right to exist as any other creature on this planet.

Veganism has never been about perfection, but rather compassion and ethics.

Vegans might accidentally kill a beetle, but would not intentionally do so, unless the beetle was first harming them, their loved ones, or their resources.

EDIT: "So if an animals harms my resources, I can kill it? I can shoot a groundhog if he keeps stealing my yams and I am a yam farmer and still be vegan?"

I realiy don't speak for all vegans, and there is no international authority on vegan ethics. However, given the scenario you described, I suspect a typical vegan would exhaust all humane methods for solving the groundhog problem before opting for killing. But yes...in my view...a groundhog does not have MORE right to survive than I do.

Listen, I have a cottage that goes through periods of having mice indoors. When I'm there, I put out live traps, and then take the captured mice away from my property and release them somewhere they can not easily return. Also, we have been losing many trees since a beaver set up home nearby. When a local asked if I wanted him to kill it, I jokingly replied, "Kind of..." But then made sure he knew I wasn't serious. Instead, we've opted to put metal barriers around the trunks of all the trees under 6" in diameter that we hope to save from the beavers. It goes without saying that I carry insects outside, and that sort of thing. But I'm happy to kill fecal coliforms in my drinking water, for example, since they will harm me. Being vegan does not mean being a martyr, and it never means another creature has more of a right to survive than I do.

Beatles would be the band.....I am sure u don't want to eat them. BEETLES are a bug which would constitute as an animal, so as a vegan you could not eat them either. Nice story bro.

Um, there's no "consideration" involved.

It's pretty cut and dry which organisms are animals and which are not.

It's called "zoological classification".

Did you skip that day of seventh grade remedial science?

Beatles are animals.

No. By all means go take a basic class in biology.

don't be a crazy person.