{"id":2649,"date":"2020-07-08T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/?post_type=is_it_vegan&p=2649"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:52:15","slug":"mussels-and-clams","status":"publish","type":"is_it_vegan","link":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/is-it-vegan\/mussels-and-clams\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Mussels & Clams Vegan?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you are new to veganism or interested in becoming vegan the questions you may have are more or less endless. Our Is It Vegan?<\/a> section covers a huge array of topics and we are very much of the opinion that there is no such thing as a silly question.<\/p>\n

As such, in this article we will answer the question, are mussels and clams are vegan? The short answer being: no, they are absolutely not vegan.<\/p>\n

Mussels & Clams Are Both Animals<\/h2>\n

You don\u2019t have to read far because this is one of the simpler queries we have dealt with: both mussels and clams are animals and therefore neither are vegan friendly. Looking at this issue at its most basic level, that really is all that there is to it. The Vegan Society talk about excluding the use of \u201canimals for food\u201d and the Cambridge English Dictionary defines a vegan as \u201ca person who does not eat or use any animal products\u201d.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t a biologist or zoologist who would describe a mussel or a clam as anything other than an animal. The official taxonomy for these marine animals shows that they are both:<\/p>\n