Do vegans eat organic food?

Question

despite knowing that it is grown with blood meal, bone meal, fish meal and other slaughter byproducts?

After all, veg*ns avoid gelatin and leather, which are also slaughter byproducts, and not technically meat.

Answer 1

It depends on the vegan. Not all are super strict about it, while others are. If one knows of a farm that is organic, they can find out what kind of products they use to grow it. Not all organic farmers use animal byproducts.

Answer 2

Any waste from plants or animals belongs in the soil.

Being vegan doesn't change that.

Answer 3

Well, if I could find veganically (vegan organic) grown food, I would get it.  As it is, there are some foods I insist on buying organic--berries, apples, cherries, peaches--because of the pesticide load.

As someone else pointed out, we avoid animal exploitation as much as possible.  And the chemicals used to grow conventional produce were probably tested on animals at some point.  At least I sharply limit my contribution to animal suffering unlike SOME people who try to poke holes in our beliefs so they can justify their meat consumption.

Answer 4

All vegans are hypocritical in some way. Organic produce is grown using animal by products, fertilizer, and waste. Commercial produce is grown with pesticides and chemicals.

Answer 5

No they don't eat anything that has been in touch with meat or similar or anything else that comes from an animal. If they do they ain't vegan. It's like when someone say they're a vegetarian but still eat chicken and fish, that makes them none-vegetarian.

Answer 6

Yes.  I am vegan, and I eat organic food, from local growers whom I trust.  Your question implies that all organic produce is grown with "blood meal, bone meal, fish meal and other slaughter byproducts" and nothing could be further from the truth.  

Most slaughter byproducts are not allowed in organic farming, since the slaughtered animal in question would have to be free of antibiotics,  hormones, sewage, irradiation, and genetic engineering, and would have to have been raised according to certain "humane" standards.   These guidelines make organic meat quite expensive, and generally prove prohibitive for agricultural byproduct usage.