If you eat a Venus fly trap, are you still a vegan?

When we eat any plant, let alone Venus fly trap, any plant- and you'd have consumed plenty of bacteriae, etc which technically are not in plant kingdom… your mouth and gut too have bacteria - no escape. read more

A Venus fly trap is still a plant. An incredible, carnivorous plant, but still a plant nonetheless. It matters less what its food source is, and more what it itself is. read more

Yes. A Venus fly trap is a plant, not an animal. Language is imperfect, and categorization can be lazy. These plants in particular lack sentience. read more

A venus fly trap is basically a machine. It doesn't recognize that a fly is entering it and "decide" to close, it closes automatically whenever anything enters it. You can stick your finger in there, or a pencil, or whatever you want, and it will still close. read more