# Vegetarian zombies and other thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 7, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570 "2011-02-07T20:44:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zombiemommy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@zombiemommy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombiemommy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/1 "2011-02-07T20:44:11Z")
Everyone likes a good zombie threat, right? So my husband and I were having a discussion about zombies and were debating what threat vegetarian zombies (i.e. vegetarians who were subsequently turned into zombies) would be - any thoughts? Also, what place on Earth could you go to minimize a zombie threat (the undead kind, not the alive but with a virius kind) where you could have an agricultural based existance and still negate the threat of zombies (I was thinking that if zombies froze or slowed down in cold, then they would be easy to pick off but would the cold prevent an existance based on farming?) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/2 "2011-02-07T20:46:42Z")
They would be going after your g-r-a-a-a-i-n-s. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/3 "2011-02-07T20:46:49Z")
If you read the literature on the _real_ folklore of vampires, you find that some vampires were evidently vegetarian vampires. Lock up your Blood Oranges! And your Bloody Mary mix! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/4 "2011-02-07T20:48:43Z")
> [@zombiemommy](#): > > Everyone likes a good zombie threat, right? So my husband and I were having a discussion about zombies and were debating what threat vegetarian zombies (i.e. vegetarians who were subsequently turned into zombies) would be - any thoughts? What? You think they’ll just eat cauliflowers? They’re going to want braaaaaaaains! - because becoming a zombie makes you (or what’s left of you) do that. After all, it makes ordinary mortals eat brains, even if they did nothing like that in life. > [@](#): > > Also, what place on Earth could you go to minimize a zombie threat (the undead kind, not the alive but with a virius kind) where you could have an agricultural based existance and still negate the threat of zombies (I was thinking that if zombies froze or slowed down in cold, then they would be easy to pick off but would the cold prevent an existance based on farming?) The Isle of Wight. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/5 "2011-02-07T20:56:55Z")
> [@zombiemommy](#): > > Everyone likes a good zombie threat, right? So my husband and I were having a discussion about zombies and were debating what threat vegetarian zombies (i.e. vegetarians who were subsequently turned into zombies) would be - any thoughts? Not having a working digestion system (they apparently eat out of compulsive hunger, not need) and not being satiable (when have you seen a zombie say “No thanks, I’m stuffed”?) they would be highly destructive. Like locusts or worse, eating everything that’s a plant; presumably the fact that something isn’t normally digestible by humans wouldn’t stop them from eating it. They’d move across the land, leaving bare earth behind them. They might even take to eating things like buildings if they are built of wood. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/6 "2011-02-07T20:59:42Z")
There’s no reason why a reanimated vegetarian/vegans would be any less dangerous. Think about it. The vast majority of zombies weren’t cannibals in life, but that doesn’t stop them from eating people once they’ve been reanimated. Only trioxin zombies (Return of the Living Dead) are aware enough to remember their lives in any meaningful way, but the pain of being dead is just so great it over comes any moral scruples or social conditioning about not killing & eating people. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/7 "2011-02-07T23:32:05Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > They would be going after your g-r-a-a-a-i-n-s. No. Braaannnssss… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/8 "2011-02-08T02:52:50Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > No. > > Braaannnssss… That’s for the regular zombies. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/9 "2011-02-08T04:34:52Z")
My Zombie question has always been…if a Zombie starts biting its fingernails…does it know when to stop? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/10 "2011-02-08T05:50:32Z")
Vegetarian Zombies would make it tough to find a decent head of lettuce in the store. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/11 "2011-02-08T06:27:54Z")
There’s that horrible Dawn of the Dead movie where one of the characters is a vegetarian and gets zombified, and refuses to eat anyone else because, well, apparently the moral values to not eat meat are stronger than the moral values to not eat people. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/12 "2011-02-08T06:36:58Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > There’s that horrible Dawn of the Dead movie where one of the characters is a vegetarian and gets zombified, and refuses to eat anyone else because, well, apparently the moral values to not eat meat are stronger than the moral values to not eat people. :dubious: You’re thinking of the horrible remake of **Day of the Dead** , not the remake of Dawn. They’re unrelated, but Ving Rhames was in both (playing different characters). Stark Sands played the vegan zombie, who turned out to be Bub. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/13 "2011-02-08T07:52:26Z")
With vegan zombies, you have the additional problem of dealing with omnipotent telekinetic zombies. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/14 "2011-02-08T13:41:02Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > My Zombie question has always been…if a Zombie starts biting its fingernails…does it know when to stop? Don’t zombies prefer warm flesh? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/15 "2011-02-08T14:03:37Z")
Dear Miss Manners, Is it rude to invite a vegan zombie over to the Winchester for dinner with a group of friends if you know that the menu has almost no vegan-friendly dishes? -Curious in Manchester ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/16 "2011-02-08T14:03:46Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > No. > > Braaannnssss… > [@runner pat](#): > > That’s for the regular zombies. \ Check his spelling. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/17 "2011-02-08T14:32:08Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > \ > > Check his spelling. And that’s what keeps them regular. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/18 "2011-02-08T15:15:23Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > And that’s what keeps them regular. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-zombies-and-other-thoughts/570570/19 "2011-02-09T14:51:37Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > You’re thinking of the horrible remake of **Day of the Dead** , not the remake of Dawn. They’re unrelated, but Ving Rhames was in both (playing different characters). Stark Sands played the vegan zombie, who turned out to be Bub. I’m purging it from my memory, one word at a time.