Why in the world do people who are against vegetarians/vegans say that we are hypocrites and wear fur, leather!
Answers: and exploit animals? Where do they get that idea from?
All my shoes are veggie freindly from http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/
There is no point in worrying about what others say. If they want to assume I'm wearing leather, thats up to them. My choice to be veggie is about me and animals, not about what others think.
I do think it a tad odd when vegetarians buy leather clothes and furniture and claim the animal was killed for meat, thats not how the industry works.
It could also be argued that if a vegetarian sold or gave away thier leather products it might go to someone who was thinking about buying new. So, you have effectively stopped the sale of a new leather coat - that would be a decent veggie thing to achieve.
Cos they are smelly meat eaters who are too narrow-minded.
they hate veggie i tink....
From the fur and leather that some may be wearing?
Duh
Because they are just trying to find any ways possible to try to aggravate us. Just ignore them, laugh off their stupidity and ignorance.
I'm not against vegetarians, it's each to his own. But I do have a friend who's vegetarian, for religious/ethical reason, and yet he will insist on genuine leather shoes and belt... guess it's such people that are giving vegetarians bad name...
whether you are a meat eater or not, you can visually tell when something is real leather or not, i guess some people do not understand why someone wont consume animal for sustinance but will wear an animal to make them look good,
In this day and age there's no way to tell if you're wearing real fur or leather. I own a bunch of synthetic items that are very similar to the real thing only that they don't have that dead animal smell (if you know what I'm talking about). I have some stuff I had from before I became vegan but I don't really wear it in public because I don't want to give the wrong impression and scandalize others. At the same time, I don't want to be wasteful so I keep certain items until I can throw them out.
Well here's one example of a hypocrite .... Michael H. who said ....
"I do think it a tad odd when vegetarians buy leather clothes and furniture and claim the animal was killed for meat, thats not how the industry works."
But he doesn't think it odd to sell his hay to those who feed it to their cattle before being sent to the slaughter house. Rather than using the wonderful agricultural services we have in the UK to find a crop consistent with his "ethics", he chooses to choose the easiest route that makes him the most $$$$$$.
Michael is like the company during WWII who sold gas to the Nazi's to be used by the concentration camps and then said they had nothing to do with the extermination of the Jews.
Moreover he verbally abused a young vegetarian person who needed money and could only work at a McDonalds.
There are other examples of hypocrisy, but Mike H. is certainly the worst and a blatant moral fraud . . . and a humourless, disordered one at that.
Because whenever someone has a belief people like to catch them acting against it. People love scandal and irony. So, sometimes they'll start pointing and yelling 'hyprocrite' before even finding out if they're right.
Why do they do this? Hard to say. Perhaps it makes them feel better- if people with ideals/beliefs are 'fake' then there are no ideals/beliefs that are real/valid. Therefore, they do not have to have any. But that's just a guess.
Most don't but even if they do, the meatys have no right to criticise, thats hitler laying into a murderer for killing someone...
At least they're not killing one creature a day, not as bad as the racist meat eaters, 'yeh we inprison animals and treat them appallingly in ways that we'd never treat a human, but its okay, because they're just animals they have no feelings' Once apon a time that was slavery and it was humans, and people said the same thing. When will people stop thinking they're 'better than everyone/thing else??
Also let remember some ppl are veggie because they just want to be healthier/don't like meat or are religious...
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the fact that some vegetarians.vegans ARE hypocrites. proabably the same type of people who splash red paint on peopl who wear fake fur, who think people who eat meat only eat meat, who think meat eaters do not care for animals, think all farms are cruel while ignoring the fact that crop farming such as slash and burn farms are more cruel and destructive,, who call other non-vgetarians names, who think that vegetarianism/veganism is the only option in the world and preach.. the list can go on and on.. stupidity and fanaticism is not exclusive to either side of the argument
Skully said:
‘Moreover he verbally abused a young vegetarian person who needed money and could only work at a McDonalds.’
It looks as if 'Michael H bullies kids who work in Mcdonalds' is fast becoming an established V&V omni-myth. Let's nip this one in the bud now.
The young person was certainly bullied by a few people. One person, a regular on V&V, said 'I think you've just elevated the definition of hypocrisy to a higher level…So you put money before principle?' That person wasn't Michael H, who said 'You are earning your way at 16, congratulations …Plase make you own choices and do what feels comfortable. I'm sure you'll be out of there as soon as you feel able'.
Here's the thread; make up your own minds who is doing the bullying:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
It would be hypocritical for a vegan to do those things but not a vegetarian. Vegetarian is just a diet but vegan is the whole anti-exploitation thing.
From trying to find things wrong with us.
People are entitled to their opinions, its what they do with them when they come up with one.
I was once on an anti-fur demo where everyone, veggie or not, had made a point of not wearing anything that could even be mistaken for an animal product, and people said we were anyway without even looking at us.
They tend to nitpick and find faults because to them it feels like a personal attack.
I'm a flexetarian vegan. I have no problem wearing leather or fur. It's not exploiting an animal. The animal is already dead for meat purposes.
I have to agree with scully. Free range Mike. Is the last person in this forum a person should listen to. He tells people not to wear fur or leather, yet he has no problem selling hay to feed cattle that are going to get killed.