Did you know that is is impossible to be totally vegan?!?!
Did you know that is is impossible to be totally vegan?!?
The use of animal products and by-products is tremendously pervasive. For instance, animal fats are used in the production of steel, rubber, vinyl, and plastics. Hence, cars, buses, and even bicycles are not vegan items. Animal products are used in bricks, plaster, cement, and many home-finishing and insulation materials. They also can be found extensively in everyday products, including over-the-counter and prescription drugs, glue antifreeze, hydraulic brake fluid, perfume and cologne, videotape, photographic film, tennis rackets, musical instruments and innumberable other items.
So what are your thoughts now?
Answers:
Everyone has to live their life to the best of their ability within the reality they are in. Which means you do the best you can to your own beliefs. Each person doesn't have to prove anything to someone else, only themselves.
The concept is to do what you can so the cumulative effects is beneficial for the planet. Kind of like saying you shouldn't recycle if you can't 100% because it won't do anything. It's impossible to recycle 100%, but it is far better to do something good than nothing.
Still not impossible. One could move to Amish country.
wow this was very informative. i cant wait to show this o my vegan sister! thanks!
Same as before, since I already knew this. I still try my best, just as I do in other areas of my life.
Here's another tidbit. I've been thinking about this (having had grown up on a farm and having had witnessed it first hand - and we were an organic farm in Poland, too, no pesticides, everything was in our backyard)...
Millions of animals are killed everywhere by grain combines and during the harvest of other "Vegan friendly" foods. While chickens, cows, pigs, etc. are abundant and not endangered, there are endangered or threatened species (insects, birds, rodents etc) that do nest in grain fields and in other harvestable areas, and when heavy farm machinery rips through it, it chops, crushes and kills these creatures. If we stop killing and eating chickens, cows, pigs, etc. not only will those species overcrowd the country and completely throw off the ecosystems of the world (and threaten the existing supplies of grain, fruit, vegetables, and other farmland) but these harvest-related deaths will increase.
By avoiding all the products within our power to avoid in this modern society we are reducing the amount of suffering caused by the meat and dairy industries.
I think that everyone knows that it is almost impossible to be a Vegan, but they try. I'm not a Vegan, but all of my Vegan friends do their best, and they're doing a good job.
You are incredibly beautiful.
Just because one cannot be COMPLETELY, 100% vegan in most cases, it is always the best choice to do as much as you can for what you think is right.
By definition of a vegan your hypothesis is wrong ! .. A vegan by definition is a person who does not eat animal products, including meat, fish, seafood, eggs, dairy and honey .In addition they do not use any animal products or by products to the " Best of their ability" this includes leather, wool, and silk .. As a Vegan I also buy cosmetics and personal care items household cleaners, that do not contain animal byproducts and are not tested on animals ..those do actually exist .. as does vegan paint .. vegan glue .. etc.. You have missed the complete point ..we are not perfect or gods... we are trying to the the best of our ability to live in a meat oriented society while using the absolute least amount of any animal products we can .. to cause the least amount of suffering .. and you say I quote .. "can be" .. found in numerous items but most of those items you can obtain the Vegan equivalent .. with a little effort .. and as society progresses and more vegan items are available .. vegans will assuredly purchase those instead .. walk when feasible , and create new alternatives ..