Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 No, seaweed is a plant, but there are many kinds of seaweed. Blue-green algae is a different thing, and I believe it is used in some things, but most of them stay in Japan where they belong. On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 06:15 PM, (AT) (DOT) com wrote: > Message: 20 > Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:03:08 -0000 > " ~Robin " <rbn4jsus > seaweed > > I recently read that seaweed is algae, and technically in the animal > kingdom so it is not vegan. (not sure about the source) I found this > disturbing, any thoughts on this? Thanks~ > ~Robin > > There is nothing in the world so attractive as someone who will dream with us, merge their dreams with our own, clarify the path toward the actualization of the dream, and lock their arms into ours while walking the path. ~ Neil Clark Warren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 algae is usually lumped in the kingdom protist. there's a lot of debate about how many kingdoms there should be and where micro- organisms and single-celled organisms should go. But rest-assured algae has never been considered by anyone to be an animal. A better question would be is algae sentient? It has no nervous system, it cannot move, etc. However, vitamin b12 (unless synthetic) is taken from bacteria which live in the algae. This leads some people to say b12 isn't vegan. This, to me, is ridiculous. You cannot possibly avoid killing micro- organisms, your immune system kills them everytime you get sick. Unless, of course you are dying from the AIDS virus. I think the idea of b12 not being vegan was probably started by some meathead trying to find a way to make all vegans out to be hypocrites. But, if you get vegan vitamin supplements, then the b12 is made in a lab anyway, so it's not even an issue. http://www.biologicall.info/PARTICULAR_BIOLOGY/Superkingdom_Eukaryotae /Kingdom_Protista/Algae.html , The Stewarts <stews9@c...> wrote: > No, seaweed is a plant, but there are many kinds of seaweed. > > Blue-green algae is a different thing, and I believe it is used in some > things, but most of them stay in Japan where they belong. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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