Per the title. If an animal dies out in nature without any human involvement, shouldn’t it be considered vegan to harvest any of the useful parts from it (not nessicarily meat, think hide), since there was no human-caused suffering involved?

Similarly, is driving a car not vegan because of the roadkill issue?

Especially curious to hear a perspective from any practicing moral vegans.

Also: I am not vegan. That’s why I’m asking. I’m not planning on eating roadkill thank you. Just suggesting the existence of animal-based vegan leather.

  • pastaq@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    This is strawman reasoning. No vegan I’ve ever met belives that there’s no moral distinction between human and non human animals. They believe that non human and have moral worth, and that moral worth is higher than 15 minutes of taste pleasure or shoes, etc.

    The basic logic flows like this:

    • Non human animals are capable of subjective experiences, which includes the ability to suffer.
    • Exploitation of or killing of animals causes suffering.
    • It isn’t essential, under normal circumstances in modern society, to cause that suffering for our survival.
    • It isn’t morally permissible to cause unnecessary suffering.