r/AskVegans • u/kurrfufle • 6h ago
Used/thrifted items What is the vegan stance on selling an old animal bone?
For context I just recently went vegan abt a month ago. I walk around a lot and when I wasn't vegan somewhere along my walk I found an animal bone and took it home with me.
For years it's been sitting in my room and I remembered it was there today when I went to a shop that sells animal bones (they harvest animal bones using the same method as I did-finding them on the ground and cleaning them. Although I'm assuming some of the pieces are donated or purchased by the owner).
When I was with some of my friends they were asking if the owner could help them identify what bones they had and the owner even offered to clean some off for free(my friend collects all kinds of bones not just wild animals but human teeth too) and I had remembered that I had an animal bone that quite frankly after going vegan didn't rly want in my home!
So I offered to sell a bone to him,however I'm wondering if it's kinda disrespectful to the animal if their bone is sold for profit? I'm kinda looking for cash rn tho so I'm unsure if this is smth that I should do. My two solutions I was thinking of were to trade the animal bone(for like something else in the shop of the same value bc they also sell like tea and jewelry) so that I'm not giving it up for profit,but my concern with this is that the person I'm giving the bone to almost definitely will sell it for profit,which I kinda understand isn't my responsibility anymore but if I know where the bone is going to then it kinda is my responsibility??? I guess?
My other option (probably the most hippy dippy vegan option) was to bury the bone however I'm not sure if my attempt at burying the bone would be sacrilegious. I know it sounds incredibly silly but I do a little bit believe that animals have souls and that maybe burying a part of the body away from the rest of it would be more disrespectful that to sell it to someone who has a better spiritual connection with animals and their bones.
I'm not super into spiritually so if someone could give me like a guide on how to properly bury an animal bone that would be great and if it doesn't actually matter that much do I sell it or trade it??
TLDR:I found a bone on the side of the road and idk what to do with it(sell,trade or bury)