# We're all literally cannibals?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-literally-cannibals/177053>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-literally-cannibals/177053 "2003-05-23T16:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-literally-cannibals/177053/41 "2003-05-26T17:13:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by refusal \*  
> \*\*Vegetarians can eat semen, just as they can eat milk and hens’ eggs and other animal secretions. However vegans cannot. Especially not the semen of animals. \*\*

I imagine most vegans can consume semen, if it didn’t require that the donater of said semen was not suffering (stop giggling). The whole point behind most people’s vegetarian beliefs is to decrease the suffering of animal-kind, though some may do it for health or religious beliefs.

Vegans and vegetarians can breast-feed their babies, pick their noses and do anything they want, just as long as they aren’t propogating suffering.

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