No because it’s entirely voluntary on the wasps part
Comment on spoopy figs
58008@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Would this render figs off limits for vegans and vegetarians? 🤔
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 days ago
But could the wasp ever really choose not to enter the fig?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It was made for me! This is my fig!
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Maybe “voluntary” isn’t the best word in the “free will” sense, but it clearly requires no coercion
Manticore@lemmy.nz 4 days ago
Vegetarian is fine, there is no flesh. Vegetarianism is typically a dietary restriction, rather than a philosophical one.
Vegan: it depends. Cultivating figs may be seen as expotation, like bee’s honey is; regardless of the insect’s actual life or wellbeing. Each individual person decides what counts as vegan.
I don’t see the point in this level of specificity, because by eating anything at all you consume fungal spores, tiny mites, microbes etc. Plants are also alive. So there is clearly a line where life is permittably consumed.
If ‘experiencing suffering’ is that line, insects do not seem capable of it, only responding to basic stimuli. I once watched a one trying to eat its own partially severed head, turning it in its front legs while its mouth parts rapidly twitched. It evidently had no comprehension.