Veganism is impossible in Azeroth

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It just wont work.

Everything in this setting is possibly a thinking, feeling sentient or often sapient creature.

The grass, the trees, rocks, water, apparently mail according to horrific visions, all of these have elementals of some complexity attached to them. And we know elementals are thinking, feeling, intelligent creatures capable of all the complex emotions. As Goblin shaman prove they can actually bargain. They have an economy - they are people.

Anyways this is why I think there is literally no ethical consumption in Azeroth. And why people making a big deal about eating humanoids are wrong.

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A fair point, but your permit to build a burger joint called “Eat Your Neighbour” is still denied.

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Uh it was called ‘You Are What You Eat’, and both that and the motto ‘Eat a person, be a person’ are still trademarked in both the Bilgewater Harbor patent office and the Stormwind Port Authority imports office.

Thank you kindky.

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The rock that killed Tiffin Wrynn needs its own 3 Book Series.

I wonder what it is up to now.

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Does this mean it’s ethical to eat Alliance?
I mean, what else do we do with all the corpses we make?

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You guys aren’t eating them? That’s rather wasteful. I try to use all parts of the Alliance I kill. According to lore Draenei tales have important applications in necromancy. And I kind know for sure. But I like to imagine gnome tracheas have important uses in certain woodwind instruments when broken up and filed down.

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How the heck did you get those patents approved in Stormwind?

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A Goblin cut out a section of Stormwind and relocated it to his place of business.

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Ahhhhh, that’d do it.

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Honestly surprised they haven’t actually tried that before. It’s the exact kind of vaguely legal yet ridiculous thing they’d go for to make a copper.

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What do you think REALLY happened to the Park?
Deathwing was just a cover.

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That rock did more to defeat the Alliance than four warchiefs in a row.

Rock for warchief.

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I prefer to compost them. Alliance bodies do wonders for plant life.

Hell, with all the night elf ash covering Felwood and ashenvale, I expect those areas to bounce back really quick.

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Good.
:sunglasses:

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That’s actually a really good point. How many different things in WoW have a sentience we just ignore, not even registering? Can we blame Neptulon for everyone that’s ever drowned, or Ragnaros and now Smolderon, for anyone whose ever burned to death? As the Elemental Lords, is that not their responsibility?

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Man Azeroth’s gotta be full of the most fascinating personal injury lawsuits.

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Maybe that’s why Smolderon is missing. Having to attend all these court cases and studying to get his law degree, he probably cracked and is in hiding.

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The point of veganism is to protect animals, often because of their sentience, although there’s some evidence that shows flora have some degree of sentience yet people still eat vegetables. It’s been proven that in real life trees can feel pain. On another note, undead food vendors sell fungi foods such as mushrooms and there don’t seem to be any fungal creatures on Azeroth. Mages can also conjure food. I consider an Azerothian fungal and conjured mage diet to be vegan.

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Mana/arcane seems to exist in a latent environmental form not necessarily tied to elementals. So that and conjuring works.

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Tragically for the ethical gastronome, there are mushroom people on Kul Tiras, including the most villainous of their kind: the Lichen King. https://www.wowhead.com/npc=136189/the-lichen-king Your mage must live on mana alone.

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