Are vegans allowed to eat carnivorous plants?

From what I’ve seen of carnivorous pants, including the Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap, and Sundew, none of them looks like they would make good eating, and as I doubt vegans would actually want to eat them, I think it is a moot point. read more

Veganism is a diet that prioritizes the minimization of suffering. In other words, if something can suffer, vegans don’t eat it or anything from it. If it can’t suffer, we can consume and often do. I can see a vegan being unwilling to eat a carnivorous plant because it ate insects during its biological existence. read more

After all, vegans eat plants, and a carnivorous plant (as the name indicates) is a plant. However, carnivorous plants capture and digest these insects, which are animals, so when the vegan ate the plant, it would probably still contain traces of these insects. read more