NM. I thought better about posting work-related stuff. Sorry.
Huh? I thought this was going to be about vampires or something…
With vegans being their version of free range, grass fed food sources.
Would vegan vampires be sapsuckers?
I’m reminded of a book from my childhood: Bunnicula, about a vampire bunny that sucks the juice out of vegetables.
No, sorry, it was work related and I thought I was oversharing. Someone wanted to know, since they were a vegan, how to request vegan blood in the event they needed a blood transfusion. I asked the mods to wish this away, but that’s basically it.
No worries. Once it’s processed what the donor ate is irrelevant.
You mean Canadians?
There’s also Tofu the vegan zombie
Seriously? That’s freaking hilarious.
Nah. Vegan vampires are the ones who suck your blood. But only after spending two hours telling you how meat is murder.
They can be destroyed by a stake in the heart or a steak in the mouth.
Hide behind a tree and make a noise like kale.
A hearty fart?
My first thought is that “vegan blood” is an oxymoron like “kosher pig” - as blood is an animal product it is, by definition, non-vegan.
But blood transfusions…? So far as I know, you don’t get to limit your transfusion based on any donor characteristic. Unless you can bank your own blood in advance, but that’s not always an option.
- Take one vegan…
I’m surprised that there have been no attempts to give a serious answer, because you aren’t the first to ask this question. Because of the high level of anonymity involved in regular blood donation, and because there are no vegan/vegetarian blood banks that I can find, vegan blood probably just isn’t possible to find…but but a blood substitute might be what your co-worker is looking for.
You are surprised there haven’t been serious answers in MPIMS? And I have to say that Vegan Blood is an oxymoron if I’ve ever seen one.
But then again, I guess we could use the juice from one of those new burger things.
One of the most popular vampire book series of the last couple of decades defines vegetarian vampires as those who only drink the (less nutritious and much lest appetizing) blood of animals.
I guess those who were strict with it could, by analogy, call themselves vegan.
Nah. That’d just be vegan myoglobin.
I’m surprised that anti-GMOers aren’t demanding transfusions from GMO-free donors, given scaremongering over “GMO DNA” in human blood.