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Yeasts are living organisms with DNA chromosomes just like plants, humans and animals.
Yeast organisms reproduce, and of course they can be killed.
Nutritional yeasts are "inactivated" yeasts of the type used to bake bread and brew yeast. In other words, killed yeasts.
Some recent studies have determined that plants emit "screams"(too high pitched for humans to hear) when cut. They also seem to be aware of their own roots in relation to the roots of other plants.
Vegans insist that plants are not sentient because they have no brain and therefore can't feel pain... and yet they seem to have some kind of awareness - that they've been cut, that these are my roots, and those are not my roots.
Plants also seem to react to different types of music - favorably to some types of music, not favorably to other types of music.
But if plants react differently to different types of music, are somehow aware of cuts and their own roots as well as the roots of other plants (despite not being sentient), then surely yeasts can also sense that they are multiplying, or that they're being "inactivated" (killed) to make nutritional yeast. After "inactivation", they're dead, the only thing that remains is the DNA and chromosomes of the nutrients they held.
I can only imagine the angst if vegans accept that plants and yeasts might have some kind of sentience, even at a very rudimentary level.
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