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From: dyer@dec-vaxuum.UUCP
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Subject: Are Microorganisms Animals?
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 00:53:35 EST
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Are Microorganisms Animals?_______________________________________

> . . . if food is fermented, doesn't it contain yeast, that is to
> say animals?  Or do vegans draw the line when the animals are
> one-celled?

    If my 8th-grade biology teacher was telling the truth, there
are two other kingdoms besides animals and plants:  one contains
fungi and the other contains microorganisms.
    At any rate, microorganisms live and die inside our bodies
anyway.  Eating them means to give them a home (-:)!
		<_Jym_>
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