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Gelert wrote: As an aside, is it only our presumption that our (apparently unique) ability to do so makes us eligible to do so? If so, by assuming the role of spokesperson we do so by the same logic that you insist would make taking sturgeon eggs wrong. I believe if you listen carefully enough, you hear the animals' voices. They may not speak in words like humans do, they may speak metaphorically by their behaviour instead. But I think a...

I had a chat over lunch with an aquatic biologist knowledgeable about these things. I understand that Ms. Sturgeon releases up to 3 million of these unfertilized eggs into the water. These are completely inert until fertilized. Only a very small fraction of them are in fact fertilized. The rest will just decay or perhaps be eaten. The fish dumps them, and swims off. There is no further role for Ms. Sturgeon in this process. This is not taking...

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caviar = the roe (unfertilized eggs) of a large fish, especially sturgeon, that is salted, seasoned, and eaten as a delicacy or relish. so in other words, no. I'm sorry but that was a really stupid question.

There is a lot of cruelty involved in the production of caviar, information I have read about what they do to the female fish to extract the eggs has made me wince

I know next to nothing about this kind of thing, but I liken this to the argument of eating rescued hens eggs. Sure, you could argue that there's a distinction between eating the eggs of wild fish and that of a domesticated hen, but the parallel remains. Personally I'm not interested in looking for loop holes which would "allow" me to eat at least some animal products, because for me being vegan isn't a set of...