For those who are vegan/vegetarian for animal rights...?!

For those who are vegan/vegetarian for animal rights...?

Well, I've been wondering about something for a while. I know slaughter houses are extremely inhumane, yet if a vegan were to bring this up and go on about it, they'd be considered some crazy vegan fanatic. But my question is, why shouldn't vegans, or even vegetarians, be defensive about their life stye and preach about animal rights?

It's just so wrong what slaughter houses do. I know we're supposed to respect other people and their diets, but why should we? Why should we be supportive and not care that our friends contribute to a very inhumane industry? And why shouldn't vegans rant on about animal rights? I know to some people animals don't mean much, but at one time blacks didn't mean much to others either. (I know, extreme analogy to some, but it works)

So to simplfy, my main question is why should vegans or vegetarians accept other people's life style even when vegans/vegetarians know that those others choose to contribute to inhumane industries? (i.e. meat, leather, etc.)

2 days ago
kate r: Who ever said I didn't care about what else goes on in the world? That doesn't even have anything to do with the question.

Oh, and I never said I thought everyone should stop eating meat. I myself would never eat it, but if a person owned their own farm and did everything humanely, I wouldn't care.

2 days ago
Yes, animals do kill other animals in ways that aren't seen as humane, but they don't keep them cramped up their whole life in filthy warehouses where they suffer daily abuse. I don't even understand how people can compare animals kill other animals to what people do to animals in slaughterhouses. I could understand comparing it to people who go out hunting though, and I wouldn't criticize people who hunt.

How you or anyone can simply say there's nothing ethically wrong with keeping animals locked up in filthy little cages force fed hormones, antibiotics, and sometimes even other dead animals for their whole life before inhumanely killing them is beyond me.

The simple answer is because we don't want to make our position seems too extreme because then people will never revert to being animal-friendly.

Baby steps are the way to go. You will scare/piss people off by being fanatical (although it's not an awful thing). I know it's awful and I am a huge animal rights veggie, but hopefully by setting a good example, people will follow. All you can do is educate, not preach. You cannot make up people's minds for them.

People just don't take well to extremism. (I know you and I don't think it's extreme, but to a person who has only known animal flesh as their daily nurishment..it is).