Hey, quick #Torah question: what does it mean when it says that birds that are #kosher to eat have to have an "extra" toe? Definitely not asking because of Pokemon or anything like that (I am 100% asking because of Pokemon).
@BathysphereHat hmm, would all grass type pokemon be not only kosher but vegan? or are there also kosher rules about plant foods?
@AlienSkyler That's an interesting question! From a nutritional standpoint, I suppose they might be vegan, but veganism is often more of an ethical thing. And from an ethical standpoint, you're still eating an animal or animal products. There are some kosher rules about plant foods, particularly grapes and wine.
@BathysphereHat oh wow, what is the grape thing?
and i just asked my brother if it would be vegan to eat a grass type pokemon and he said it depended on what part, hypothetically you could cut the bulb off a bulbasaur without killing it and eat the bulb but the poor bulbasaur would be scarred for life and now i'm low key traumatized

@AlienSkyler It's kinda complicated, but the Wikipedia article about kosher wine covers it pretty well I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_wine

Also, I think that eating a bulbasaur's bulb MIGHT be vegetarian, if it doesn't really harm the bulbasaur, but it definitely wouldn't be vegan.

Kosher wine - Wikipedia

@BathysphereHat yeah, i agree about the bulbasaur thing but now i'm upset just thinking about being so cruel to a bulbasaur
@BathysphereHat ah interesting, i know there are non vegan wine additives so it makes sense there would be non kosher ones but i didn't know wine was so important it had to be made in a religiously sanctified way, that's interesting
it makes sense though, when i was christian my mom said not to buy incense unless it was made by christians, i don't want to think about that though