So would a vegan help out in community service programs?!
Answers: where animal products area used? An example if you are a vegan would you work in a soup kitchen?
Like I said in your other inane question, I don't impose my morals on other people. If I was donating food to a soup kitchen, I'd purchase vegan food. If I was donating money, it would be up to them to decide how to spend it. And if I was donating time, I'd serve what they were serving.
Personally most of my volunteer time is spent on child mentoring and literacy programs which don't present this kind of dilemma, although that's not why I chose them.
No precious. They wouldn't. They would help in another area. I'm an omnivore and I wouldn't work in a soup kitchen. I have donated monetarily though.
I thought your only goal was to "take me out" flexi-troll?
EDIT: Lame. You aren't even worth my attention. What anger? You are the angry one who said those words, I was the one, of many, that were laughing.
You question is too broad.
Is it a soup kitchen that utilizes donated food items?
Does the kitchen itself purchase and supply these items?
Can the kitchen itself afford to purchase enough vegan items to offer the recepients a completely nutritious diet? (There is no point to offer malnutrition towards those in need.)
Have you ever heard of "Food not Bombs?"
The way you have asked this question is a bit loaded. You are asking for someone to speak completely on the behave of every single vegan on this earth, which will ultimately lead to an unsubstantiated answer. It would be more understand able if you proposed your question like:
"As a vegan, would you help out in a community..."
This form of the question requires personal responses, not a responses aimed at generalizing a vast and personally intricate culture. Therefore any direct answer you recieve, shall most likely be deemed incomplete due to the way the question was presented.
Yes. I've volunteered and continue to volunteer at a local nursing home and I don't have a problem with bringing dinners into invalid people's rooms, regardless of whether they have meat in them or not. The kitchen at the nursing home does allow people to choose vegetarian or not and it isn't my place to decide that for anyone else but myself. Usually I don't do much in the kitchen, I play music and play boardgames with the residents and I bring my daughter around sometimes. But if they need my help in the kitchen I'll do it.
I've also stayed overnight at a local church that has a homeless shelter in their basement, helping make ham sandwiches for the homeless before they wake up - once they're up they usually leave and go wherever they go during the day. I've been there a handful of times and not once did I bring up being vegan or preach or do anything offensive like that. It's my business what I eat. I'd much rather see homeless people have a bite to eat than to obsess about turning the world vegan or something ludicrous like that.
I'd work in a soup kitchen too but I haven't had the opportunity.
Looking at your other questions, it seems that you are trying to imply that caring about people and caring about animals are mutually exclusive. This is simply not the case. While I'm sure that there are some vegans who are completely devoted to animal causes -- just as a number of people are completely focused on human issues -- being vegan does not preclude someone from being involved in other issues.
Someone who's vegan may choose to volunteer at one of the hundreds or thousands of other community service programs because they wouldn't want to serve people meat. A friend of mine started a vegan food bank in NY, and Food not Bombs is an organization that provides vegetarian food to the hungry. Some vegans would probably have no problem serving meat, especially if they were vegan for their health.
Eating a vegetarian diet helps reduce world hunger, since only a small fraction of the food which is consumed by an animal is converted into meat for human consumption. I've known a few people who could care less about animal issues, and only went veg because they were concerned about world hunger. Again, being vegan and helping people aren't mutually exclusive.
As Peter Singer wrote in Animal Liberation: "When non-vegetarians say that 'human problems come first,' I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals".
What does veganism have against ladling soup for hungry people?
You get more and more confused by the day.
It appears that your impressionable mind continues to rot the longer you are on your computer.
What does laddeling soup have to do with being vegan? I think it is the sign of a good neighbor, no matter what your dietary choices are.
None of us can speak for all vegans.
If I were helping out in a soup kitchen, it wouldn't bother me if animal products were used.
What other vegans would do is up to them.
You aren't making a very good job of catching people out.
nah i wouldnt, i think i would work with old people :)