[net.veg] Are Microorganisms Animals?

dyer@dec-vaxuum.UUCP (02/17/86)

Are Microorganisms Animals?_______________________________________

> . . . if food is fermented, doesn't it contain yeast, that is to
> say animals?  Or do vegans draw the line when the animals are
> one-celled?

    If my 8th-grade biology teacher was telling the truth, there
are two other kingdoms besides animals and plants:  one contains
fungi and the other contains microorganisms.
    At any rate, microorganisms live and die inside our bodies
anyway.  Eating them means to give them a home (-:)!
		<_Jym_>
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