Do most vegans support animal cause agencies then?!
Answers: human agencies. An example would you choose to support PETA, to save a squirrel over helpinga food pantry because they may give out meat products?
I support one animal charity, one environmental charity and two human charities.
What the human charities do with my donation is entirely up to them. If they need or want to purchase animal products, that is their prerogative.
However, from reading the brochures, I expect they mainly use the money towards digging water wells and medications.
I support:
W.S.P.A
Greenpeace
World Vision
Medecins Sans Frontiers
I also support the Salvation Army in my local town – I expect they do buy animal products and I have donated tins of stew to them in the past.
The homeless men apparently very much enjoy the tinned stew. So I am happy to buy and donate the stew. I am certainly NOT going to try to push my personal preferences of purely vegetarian meals and tinned chickpeas on them.
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I don't think too many vegans would support PETA. But they would definitely support a more reputable agency. They also would support the animal rights over the food pantry for the very reason you mentioned. Their support would go elsewhere for the humans such as clothing and shelter.
You're getting nowhere with this, precious.
Again you really shouldn't ask one member of a community to speak out for the rest of them. If this was a personal question like:
"As a vegan, do you support 'animal cause" agencies THAN..."
you would probably recieve more substantiated responses. It appears you are again trying to recieve a voluntary spokesperson on the behalf of veganism to respond to your questions. It would be generally agreed that anyone voluntary jumping to take that offer, would more probably be considered an uncredible source.
No two people are quite alike, just the same as no two vegans are quite alike (vegans are people too).
If you asking vegans to consult their vegan bibles or vegan constitutions on this issue, that I'm sorry to inform you that neither of those two exist.
If you want personal responses on what individual vegans would do, please ask it. No one is going to jump at the oppurtunity to voluntarily speak on the behalf of the personal opinions of millions of people worldwide, whom they never met.
There's no way to generalize a large group of people, so I'll only speak for myself...
I think in my life the ratio of donations and time spent in service towards humanitarian causes outweighed service towards animal rights.
NOT PETA at any point, however. Rather, I donated items and time to a local no-kill animal shelter and (this was years ago) I worked for a summer in collaboration with a shelter for wild animals - example, people would bring in a crow they found that had a broken wing and the shelter would keep the crow until it recuperated and release it from captivity. There's been a lot of opportunity in my life to help out though... my first year of college, for instance, I had a professor who also ran a community service club and she got me interested in helping out at homeless shelters (making sandwiches, laundering sheets and stuff).
I've only met one vegan that was more concerned about animal welfare than the well-being of their fellow man... and that person came off as very disturbed. I have only met with them once (they were at a party I was at and somehow thought I'd share their extreme, rambling views). Ugh...
I don't know why I still bother giving thoughtful answers to your questions though because you clearly dislike vegans and have some misconstrued stereotypes that you refuse to drop, meaning you don't much care about what the responses to your questions are. You will remain with your preconceived notions, you just want to bait and aggravate people with your question and not learn and be considerate or compassionate...
I think it depends on your personality and your awareness of the things going on around in this world. I am not a very outgoing and outspoken type of individual, so I do not go out as a animal rights activists. I believe in their causes and support them that way. I will probably not go out of my way and give money either (as that is limited in my case right now). As a consumer, I buy non leather items (though as an environmentalist I am having a hard time justifying buying synthetics that are made with toxic materials that have toxic by-products. So I buy natural materials if possible) and cruelty-free products.
Now about helping the food pantry. That is something I can and have done in the past. It is a quiet thing to do (stacking and putting away stuff). But not only do I feel funny about the meat products, but they are in a can usually (like Spam and even meatloaf in a can)! Just thinking about what parts of the animal are in there makes me feel queasy, but helping out still feels good overall.
Last time I checked, PETA didn't spend a whole lot of their budget fighting to improve squirrel's rights.
I'm vegan and wouldn't give a dime to PeTA.
Don't be such a prejudiced moron.
I can't speak for vegans, but as a vegetarian I look at it like this: First, you are equating animals to humans; no can do. While I do enjoy the thought of saving animal lives, if left to my choice of the weigh scale, I'll always go with humans. I can't let my choice of vegetarian affect the efforts of those who feed the hungry. I commend them.
However, I view it as I am doing my part, although I am a vegetarian based on health, and would encourage others to follow suit but not demand it. Aid is aid to me. But don't get me wrong, the last homeless person I helped had a dog and while I aided him the best I could, I also stopped at a grocery before going back to pick up a bag of food for his pet. I have no quams with any organization willing to help people else I wouldn't be in the career field I am.
It is not them against us!
I actually help as much as i can, regardless of what type of animals. human or non human.
I give lots of clothes, food etc to charities. And I go help situations whenever there is one.
PETA = i do not like nor dislike them. but i think i would rather give money and time to local shelters.
First, congratulations on finally understanding that the word vegans, plural, doesn't need an apostrophe. You do listen sometimes! Only 3 punctuation errors and one typo too! Sentence structure is crap though.
Anyway, you're still assuming that 'most' vegans think as one. Nothing has changed since your last question, they still don't.
Like most vegans that I've met and talked to personally, I value human life over animal life - is that what you're asking?
Common sense, if you had any common sense you would know that helping humans and helping animals are not mutually exclusive. I would never withhold support to a food bank because they gave out meat. I don't impose my morals on other people, especially needy people. Personally, I have a short list of charitable organizations that I support regularly and occasionally donate to others as I see fit.
This sounds like just another attempt to poke holes in the vegan ethic. And this question is usually asked by people who aren't doing anything to help anyone at all.