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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

athena

(4,187 posts)

12. This is self-serving nonsense.

Reply to Duppers (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 04:45 PM

Mar 2019

Just because you cause some suffering to animals doesn’t make it OK to cause thousands of times more suffering.

Veganism is not about being perfect. It’s about reducing the suffering one causes animals as much as possible. When you go vegan, you avoid causing the torture and killing of hundreds of animals each year. That is not undone by killing a fly or a nasty-looking spider.

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Has anyone heard about the Yulin dog eating festival in China [View all] Beringia Mar 2019 OP

Terrible. Lisa Vanderpump has been organizing protests against it for years. steventh Mar 2019 #1

Nice to know Beringia Mar 2019 #3

I don't think any animal deserves protection over another California_Republic Mar 2019 #2

That's true Beringia Mar 2019 #4

Also I do think it helps to bring awareness to these issues Beringia Mar 2019 #5

I very much support your post! Duppers Mar 2019 #8

Thanks! Beringia Mar 2019 #10

If you don't differentiate animals Duppers Mar 2019 #9

This is self-serving nonsense. athena Mar 2019 #12

americans boil live lobsters and other shell animals. nt msongs Mar 2019 #6

Yes I read that point being made, also cruel Beringia Mar 2019 #7

All these threads about what's happening to animals Americans don't eat athena Mar 2019 #11

I don't think awareness can ever hurt. Beringia Mar 2019 #13

Veganism is not about guilt. Quite the contrary. athena Mar 2019 #14