If you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, doesn't it make you hypocrite if...?!
If you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, doesn't it make you hypocrite if...?
If you consume dairy/egg products not from organic farms? Because the warehouses that keep the hens and cows are usually cramped, filthy, and they also pump the animals full of bad food and hormones/antibiotics. Also I'm sure the animals are treated in other inhumane ways. Not to mention that the dairy industry directly contributes to the veal industry. So does that make you a hypocrite if you consume dairy/eggs? Do you feel bad about it? If so, why not just become vegan?
Additional Details2 days ago
alfyakuza: I thought about that too. Vegetarians should really consider that when they choose to eat cheese, etc, but not meat for ethical reasons.
2 days ago
unum: Oh, I didn't know that about organic farming at all. I'm vegan so I never bothered to research much in to it. Now I'm going to look in to it more so that I can inform people that I know who buy organic dairy/eggs. Thanks for the info.
Answers: 2 days ago
alfyakuza: I thought about that too. Vegetarians should really consider that when they choose to eat cheese, etc, but not meat for ethical reasons.2 days ago
unum: Oh, I didn't know that about organic farming at all. I'm vegan so I never bothered to research much in to it. Now I'm going to look in to it more so that I can inform people that I know who buy organic dairy/eggs. Thanks for the info. "Ethical" vegetarians who consume ANY dairy/eggs are hypocrites. Often they are just ignorant of the facts or choose to bury their heads in the sand.
As the standards for humane treatment are so lax in animal agriculture, the so-called "organic" & "free-range" animal farms are usually no better than regular factory farms. Those terms are just euphemistic, marketing ploys to profit from the "socially-conscious" wannabes. "Free-range" hens are still debeaked, force molted (intentionally starved to shock the body into another laying cycle), plus their male counterparts are executed as chicks as they are of no use to the egg industry. "Organic" dairy still comes from cows that are forced into perpetual pregnancies, while the result of those pregnancies are slaughtered for veal or kept separate from their mothers to continue the unnatural & vicious circle of pertpetual pregnancies (heaven forbid that the milk their mothers produce be "wasted" on their offspring instead of humans.)
In any situation where there is a profit motive behind raising animals, there will always be abuse. Source(s):
http://www.peacefulprairie.org/freerange...
http://www.peacefulprairie.org/freerange... because it makes them feel better that they're not killing fully developed animals. yes it would make you a hypocrite. My friend and I have talked about this before, so I know where you're coming from. I think it's wrong to consume dairy/egg products unless it's completly organic, and cage free. Why don't I become a vegan? Simple- I love cheese too much. am not begetarian but yes, vegans should just eat pure veggies, no egg, no milk or cheese, yogurt, cakes, ice cream. I never eat anything that has/had a face. I'm vegan and hypothetically I would rather consume animal flesh
than dairy or eggs.
Animals raised for flesh aren't kept alive as long or put through as much on a daily basis as those kept alive to generate other products.
Buying organic animal products makes very very little difference for the animals' quality of life if any whatsoever. yes it does unless you get all of your milk, eggs, and cheese from organic farms like me. yay! The eggs we eat can't produce babies. It's exactly like milk
You see Milk comes Only from a 'Mother'. but the cows and beffelows are treated in a way that they give milk life long. Similarly chickens are giving eggs lifelong [or whatever time span]
Mostly ppl dont like the idea of killing an animal for eating. But then we all are killing many small microscopic organisms every moment!!
So in a way it is hypocratic, at the same time half of the religious concept in each religion are like that The only way to be certain that what you eat as a lacto/ovo vegetarian is "good and clean" is to raise the hens and cows or goats yourself and make your own cheese. any commericial product will not conform to any ethicial reaasons you stopped eating those animals. i was a vegitarian, because i'm lazy and the one who cooks, my g/f stopped eating meat...so i did too cause i dont care. after a while i had to add seafood to my diet to stop from loosing more weight. we are lacto/ovo, and my thing with seafood. we dont agree with how animals are treated but we also realize that the little ammount of cheese and eggs we eat we could actually provide, we do have a goat she lives with the horse. but at the moment we do live in an apartment, so not practical. which is a part of life. everything has to work. you want to harm none. buy a farm and do it right, and i wish you the best of luck as well, its not easy. I don't think it makes you a hypocrite. Ofcourse you could get cage free eggs, but if your a vegetarian and eat eggs and milk atleast you don't eat meat. Theres always more you can do, but atleast your doing something. That's the way I see it.