There are loads of different reasons that people become vegan. Some of those reasons might include not wanting to harm any living being, and if that’s the reason then yeah it is a little arbitrary to draw the line at plants or types of plant-life, but I’m not sure it’s really fair to place the expectations that vegans do not make any arbitrary choices like that.
Everybody sets those kinds of boundaries and makes those kinds of choices all the time, because it would be very hard not to, and I think making an honest attempt to reduce the harm you do to living beings is better than nothing 🤷♂️
That being said, I’m not vegan, so don’t want to talk out of turn.
I think making an honest attempt to reduce the harm you do to living beings is better than nothing
It sounds like you get it. That’s the real vegan philosophy: regardless of one’s reason for choosing the lifestyle, the point isn’t to be perfect - it’s to do the best you can to reduce harm. Sometimes we have no choice - car tires require gelatin, a prescribed medicine may contain lactose, and of course all the animals that might get hurt incidentally through production or transportation of food plants. None of us can perfectly control everything, but there are a lot of things that we can make choices about. Those are the choices that matter.
There are loads of different reasons that people become vegan. Some of those reasons might include not wanting to harm any living being, and if that’s the reason then yeah it is a little arbitrary to draw the line at plants or types of plant-life, but I’m not sure it’s really fair to place the expectations that vegans do not make any arbitrary choices like that.
Everybody sets those kinds of boundaries and makes those kinds of choices all the time, because it would be very hard not to, and I think making an honest attempt to reduce the harm you do to living beings is better than nothing 🤷♂️
That being said, I’m not vegan, so don’t want to talk out of turn.
It sounds like you get it. That’s the real vegan philosophy: regardless of one’s reason for choosing the lifestyle, the point isn’t to be perfect - it’s to do the best you can to reduce harm. Sometimes we have no choice - car tires require gelatin, a prescribed medicine may contain lactose, and of course all the animals that might get hurt incidentally through production or transportation of food plants. None of us can perfectly control everything, but there are a lot of things that we can make choices about. Those are the choices that matter.