Sentientist Diet
What can you eat on the sentientist diet? The sentientist diet doesn't differ greatly from the vegan diet. In my mind no food should be 100% off the menu. This doesn't mean that you can eat little bits of chicken. It means I think there might be situations where eating chicken isn't a bad thing or the worst option. An example being chicken that has been thrown away. Mainly though, the idea is you eat a vegan style diet and if you want you can eat bivalves like mussels, oysters and scallops. Some might argue bugs aren't sentient but I don't agree with this. I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
So the menu in my mind for anyone wanting to consume an ethical diet is as follows
- Legumes (kidney beans, butter beans, navy beans, soy, lentils, chick peas)
- Grains (wheat, rice, rye, oats, millet)
- Fruits (bananas, oranges, apples, pears, pineapples etc)
- Vegetables
- Seeds (quinoa, sunflower, sesame, chia, flax, hemp)
- Nuts (walnut, almond, pecan, pine)
- Tubers (white potatoes, sweet potatoes)
- Seaweed (kelp, nori, dulse)
- Fungus/mushrooms
- Bivalves (mussels, oysters, scallops, cockles, clams)
- Thrown away animal products
- Animals that have died of natural causes
I love how you write, non-judgmental and kind. I have been vegan for about 20 years. My personal rule is "if it has a central nervous system and pain receptors I do not harm or eat its slaughtered body. Therefore, your list and mind have a bit of a difference in food choice. No animal products - either thrown away or having died of natural causes for this sentient-vegan. None. Otherwise, I really love your list early on. My big dream: to hug a cow! I'm making you smile, I hope. Bye. (C.K. Risk)
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