Do vegans consider insects and bugs to be animals?

Vegans DON'T "eat honey" or consume any animal products at all.

Anyone who does NOT consider insects and bugs to be animals is an idiot. They ARE animals.

No vegan is going to consume any kind of animal or animal product. If they did, then they would no longer be vegan.

Technically, yes they are considered in the animal kingdom. Most wouldn't consume an insect as a protein source because after a while your stomach produces less of the bacteria that denatures animal proteins in your stomach, so eating insects could potentially make them sick. However, the insects in small amounts- as in 1 insect would be fine. It varies between people but you would be surprised how many people go vegan for the health rather than the concern of animals.

Many of them appear not to. I have seen them say, on several occasions, that insects are not animals. I have also seen, very frequently, implications by vegans that insect deaths caused by vegans are insignificant or unimportant in comparison to deaths of livestock or game animals. The irony is that these same vegans uses the term "speciesist" to denigrate somebody who eats livestock but not their pets. Funny how, when they have to grasp at straws to call somebody a hypocrite, they succeed only in exposing their own hypocrisy.

Yes, insects are animals, regardless of what some ignorant person may think. It always amazes me how many people will say that insects (or even fish) are not animals.

It strikes me that whether or not insects count as animals is as much of a personal choice as whether or not to eat meat itself is a personal choice. Is "Vegan" a dogma with some "vegan pope" in charge of what is or isn't truly Vegan? It seems courteous to use the label in an non-confusing way as possible, but almost as rude to use it as a badge of superiority as it would be to use the term "meat eater" as such a badge of honor (as was common in Chicago when I grew up back in the bad old days).

It is a somewhat confused situation for vegans in that yes, most of them, but not all, consider insects to be animals however they turn a blind eye towards the killing of them as it is necessary to protect the crop based foods that they eat as a matter of course. If there were no insect control the amount of crop based foods would drop dramatically and significant amounts of land would have to be put into cultivation to replace this lost food. This would result in millions of acres of currently forested land being cleared (assuming they reject gmo foods) for crop farming.

of course. Only a really ignorant person doesn't know that insects, and the bacteria that make vinegar are ALL ANIMALS

Vegans do not eat honey. Vegans dont need bugs as a protein source. We already have plenty of protein.

Plants have feelings too, they feel pain and some plants can even think and respond to humans. Just lookup the mimosa pudica plant! It doesn't like being touched. As a "good" human being who cares about all living things I can't eat meat (bugs count as meat!) and now that we as a species know that plants react to us AND THEREFORE FEEL SAD WHEN WE EAT THEM we shouldn't eat them either. I, as the truest vegan, am currently eating nothing because I care about ALL living things

doctor says ima die soon..

Yes

Vegans don't eat honey or bugs. It doesn't matter if I consider bugs to be animals, they ARE animals and I would not fit the established definition of the word "vegan" if I ate them.

I don't need to eat bugs for protein, so I see no point in doing so.