Is our water really vegan?
What every normal person knows suddenly becomes a world-shaking discussion: What is our water made of? Still known as H20 in chemistry class, our water is floating out of the old familiar definitions. Vegans are particularly affected. Can they still cook with the same water that our ancestors used without hesitation? Doubts in the vegan community are growing all the time.
Scientific studies bring the proof
Long before paleo diets and fructans appeared on the scene, vegetarians grew into a lump called vegans. Not only did they reject meat as a food source, they banned products that came from animals, regardless of whether the animal was exploited or killed for it. And it is also understandable: what do we care about human trafficking, prostitution or wars if cows are milked for milk and cheese and beehives are tapped at the same time. Exploitation of insects definitely belongs in the list of human rights violations. At first, it seemed as if the fructans were going one better, because they don't even pick fruit from the trees, but wait until the tree drops its fruit voluntarily. On the other hand, it does not matter whether it was gravity that exploited the tree. But when it comes to water, fructans have no scruples, yet it can be seen under a simple microscope that every responsible citizen should carry: there are more amoebas swimming in one cubic centimetre of water than the average homo sapiens has hair on his head. Samples studied in the US showed that water is not to be trifled with even before the 1993 cholera outbreak in Milwaukee.
The aquatic animals take revenge
The united vegans and fructans continue to deny that water is exploited and that chlorination and boiling is a violation - no, more than that: a crime - against the good customs of their code. Can't you hear the screams of the amoebae as they are squeezed through pipes, trapped in osmosis filters and left to languish in sewage treatment plants, only for the last survivors to be heated to over 90 degrees in a pot as they drip out of the pipe?
No wonder Naegleria fowleri (a brain-eating amoeba) and Cryptosporidium parvum (the cholera-causing amoeba) are taking revenge on humans.
Is it all just a question of definition?
The fact that no one had microorganisms on their radar when meatless lifestyles were invented is just an oversight. Fifty years ago, after all, no one would have organised a bicycle demonstration for the reduction ofCO2 emissions, or a 16-year-old girl would have given a speech at the UN. But now action must finally be taken. We cannot go on as before. This is clear from the German government's climate targets from the 1990s. And all politicians remind us daily with the insistent slogans that there must be a rethink and the problems must finally be tackled. With the conversion of maximum pollutant values, a big step has been taken: with a few statistics and shifts of decimal points, the world already looks much better - and the water no longer so murky. If protists are classified as animals, the future can still be saved - although vegans and fructans will then die out, because water is not only the source of life for single-celled organisms.