It is awful that thousands of people die of starvation every day, yet there is not a lot
I can do to stop it.
I do not live in regions of the world where I can provide hands-on aid to starving people.
Often the cause of so much death is due to political instability, wars and lack of resources.
As an outsider there is not much I can do to remedy this.
Just like i can have no impact on the denuclearization of my country or others, i have to choose
my efforts and battles wisely.
As a vegan, i realize that I need to eat at least 3 times a day and its entirely in my
control what I put into my body.
Regardless of what you eat or don't, you still need to go grocery shopping.
Regardless of what you wear, you still need to purchase clothing.
As a vegan I find it morally repugnant to enslave, use and kill other sentient animals.
I recognize that eating and using animals is no longer a necessity for the large majority
of people on the planet, and it takes little effort on my part to avoid directly supporting
the industry.
When I go shopping, it takes almost no additional effort to choose vegan options over non-vegan
options.
Every-time i buy food, clothing or consumer goods, i vote with my wallet.
We live in a world with a lot of pain and suffering, much of which stems from human
activity.
I choose to support compassionate, sustainable, and environmentally responsible foods and
products because we share this world with other humans and non-human animals, and it
is the responsibility of all to make this world a better place for all.
Lone Rook had this to say:
Oh, the irony.
What Lone Rook has failed to understand here, is that most deforestation worldwide is directly
connected with raising animals for food.
Over 70% of soy crops world wide end up as animal feed.
Large tracts of rain forest are also cleared for grazing land.
This means that due to the increase in demand for animal products, more land has to be cleared
in order to plant crops, crops which will mostly go to feed farmed animals directly.
Over 56 billion land animals worldwide are killed each year for food.
These animals need to be fed and hydrated.
The amount of resources that go into raising these animals for their bodies is unbelievable
and entirely unnecessary, irresponsible and immoral.
Reforming the industry will not eliminate the need to feed and hydrate the billions
of animals each year.
Animals used for food and experimentation are considered property by the industry.
How animals are used and treated is dependant on their net worth.
The animal's care and attention will always be limited by the industry's desire to maximize
profits.
Alakai 1721 made this comment:
I don't believe in making anyone do anything they do not want to do, however as a parent
it is your responsibility to educate and raise those under your care.
Parents teach their children their own values, customs, and beliefs.
The large majority of the people in this world teach their children that non-human animals
are food and that its perfectly okay to kill and eat them.
Kids grow up into adults and parents and then teach this same perspective without question
to the next generation.
I believe that parents should not teach children WHAT to believe, but rather teach them how
to think.
Teaching a child to be skeptical of claims, to demand evidence and to believe in things
only when there is good reason to believe is always good.
Wanting something to be true does not make it real.
Fantasy should be identified and exposed for what it is.
If my future child decides to be vegan, i will be very happy for their choice.
If she does not become vegan, i will respect her right to believe what she chooses to believe.
Samizer gifted us with this comment:
Not the
plant sentience argument again.
Every longtime vegan has heard this horrible argument and dreads explaining how this is
wrong.
Plants do not have sense organs, do not have a brain, and do not have nerve endings.
Plants react to their environmental stimuli however they do not choose their actions.
They track the sun, respond to gravity, react to the lack of the suns energy during the
night, and emit chemicals that react with other plants.
From an evolutionary perspective you have to ask what is the point of sentience.
What does sentience do for animals?
Sentience is the ability to sense, perceive and consciously interact with the natural
world.
It is the ability of an animal to react to a situation of danger and survive.
It is the ability of an animal to choose an action and prosper.
In times of danger, an animal's ability to perceive the danger gives it an advantage.
The animal is able to try and avoid the danger and survive another day.
Plants are affixed to the earth.
They have no way of avoiding danger should it present itself.
What would be the point of developing sentience if it does nothing to further your chances
of survival?
Even if I would concede that planets have a type of sentience and interest in their
own survival, it would still make sense to be a vegan.
You have to kill a lot more plants to feed farmed animals than would be required to feed
a human directly.
It is always much more efficient to eat plants directly then eat an animal who has wasted
a lot of that plant energy in the development and maintenance of their body.
We know what its like to be a sentient animal living on this planet.
We can extrapolate that further and empathize how other sentient non-human animals may feel.
We do not need to eat other animals to be healthy, and therefore we choose to breed,
enslave, torture and kill animals for reasons other then necessity.
When the actions of one sentient being effects another, it is our responsibility to evaluate
the interests of each party and ensure that the right to life and freedom is not negatively
effecting the other.
We understand this when discussing human to human interactions, however due to our speciesism
we seem to be inconsistent with the other animals we share this world.
This would be a very different discussion if we had a real need to eat animals for our
survival, however most of us don't live in that world.
Doctors typically get very little nutritional training and bring with them already held
biases from their upbringing.
My suggestion would be to do a search of the following doctors and nutritionists and see
for yourself that a balanced vegan diet is very healthy and that most of the leading
causes of death in developed nations are caused by the consumption of animal products.
here are some famous vegan md's: Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Neal Barnard,
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. T. Collin Campbell, Dr. Joel Furhman, Dr. Michael Klaper, Dr.
Dean Ornish.
Some well known vegan dietitians include: Brenda Davis, and Jack Norris.
These lists are by no means exhaustive list of vegan medical professionals.
Lastly, 3ddon602 made a fool of himself with this gem:
As an atheist i couldn't care less what jesus the historical or mythical figure ate or did
not eat.
The outrages claims of the bible have not been verified to be true with evidence.
Therefore if jesus did exist, there is no reason to think he was anything more then
a human being and i don't care in the slightest what an uneducated carpenter's son thought
we should eat or not.
The supernatural claims in the bible have not been confirmed to be true and therefore
the most one can say about jesus was that he was a cult leader with a small following
that ended up becoming popular.
I take my nutritional advice from dietitians and medical professionals, not the printed
words attributed to someone who may or may not have ever lived millennia ago.
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