Vegans, how would you avoid starvation in a SURVIVAL situation?

Eat.

Would you eat a potato if you was locked in a room for 12 days, no other food but a potato?

i would eat meat. I only don't eat meat because animals are factory farmed in an inhumane way. I have no problem with killing a wild animal for food. That is nature

You'd be amazed what people are capable of doing when they're literally starving to death. There are plenty of true stories of cannibalism to survive. So I bet you any and every vegan would eat ANYTHING to survive. Including nokia/angryprawn.

If eating meat was necessary, I would eat meat.

But in a situation where it's either eat some veggies or kill and eat the carcass of a sentient being, which would you choose? If you had the choice of causing another being to suffer or to merely eat something else, which would it be?

vegans would eat to stay alive, just like any other person or creature.

"Vegans, how would you avoid starvation in a SURVIVAL situation?"

While that particular scenario is unlikely, the vast majority of vegans would do what's necessary for survival, to avoid starvation. Which means finding what is edible, and eating it, from land based animals and plants, to whatever insects, animals and fish, that are available, as a food source. You might find one in a thousand who would try to make it on whatever plant based foods could be found. Eat some raw fish eggs or catch an octopus, and you have some vitamin C, along with vitamin A, and vitamin D.

However the odds are slim of that happening. In fact there are better odds of a solar generated electro magnetic pulse occurring, that would take out all of our modern electronics, and throw us back to the early, or mid nineteenth century. And that's remote as well.

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Also this scenario has been brought up several times in the past.

Veganism is not a strict diet, it's more often than not an ethical standpoint against capitalist means of mass food production. Vegans recognise that they are in a position of privilege to be able to eliminate animal-derived products from their lives (by using substitutes and things like supplements to compensate for any missing nutrients.)

Being on a deserted island, quickly killing a fish for food is certainly more justifiable than holding animals in captivity and terrible conditions for a long time, force feeding them, tearing them apart from their parents instantly from birth, etc.

Trevor, actually a Vegan would do well, if he or she had full knowledge if the plants and roots were edible or not.

I was on a bush trek in Australia, place called the Kimberlies. It was almost like a survival test. For four days, we were living on what was called over there, "Bush Tucker".

I had no idea before then, that just eating different plants and root bulbs, one could survive that long. There was also snake, goanna (big lizards), bush poultry.

I can tell you, that elements of the Australian Armed Forces over there, part of their field training is survival, with actual Aboriginal trackers. I have also done something similar here in Canada with one of our first nation groups. Interesting what people will eat in the name of survival.

I would survive on just coconuts if need be, but probably also I'd be able to harvest seaweed and eat that. Vegan is an ethical stance, not just a diet. It would be the same as if I were to ask a meat eater whether they'd eat human babies on a mythical island that had only coconuts and those. Principles are principles.

I'm not vegan, but if I was, I wouldn't care. I'd just eat meat.
Your life is WAY more important than your opinions/preferences.

Depends, you're very likely to find other vegan food sources, and of course I'd try to find others. If not, then I'd eat the fish, never ate fish before, so I guess it'd be my first time trying it, huh? Haha. Although, I have experience with waterfasting - so going a few weeks without food is pretty easy, and plenty of people have done it and were as healthy as they were before they started, possibly even healthier. The real question is, where are you going to get your water? Water is way more important than food at this point. You won't starve to death until over 2 months, but without water - you won't even last a week.

eat.........

would you eat a potato if you was locked in a room for 12 days, no other food but a potato?

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depends how long? i mean if it is too long then i wud definitely break my vegan lifestyle. if not i wud survive on coconut water.

The chances of that happening are slim to none.