| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Paavo,)
Do you choose to buy (if available / existing) dairy products gotten from animals that are kept free? I mean, even if the eggs are unfertilized, the animals they pop out from are still kept in small cages and can't "live a happy life", right? I'm not trying to "find flaws" in your reasonings, I'm just genuinely curious. :confused:<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
I have no idea what the conditions are of animals kept alive to harvest the eggs or milk that I purchase. I've read that some are treated well and others not. If I had the information available, I would choose products of happy animals over unhappy.If I knew that brand A's bread was from a harvest method that resulted in less mammal deaths than brand B, I would choose brand A.
Also, there are times when there is no non-leather alternative that I know of, so I'll go ahead and get leather. The more I learn about alternatives, the less often I have to do that. Ignorance also means sometimes I'll unwittingly buy a product that contains dead animal bone/tissue/etc in it. When eating at restaurants, I probably get food tainted with meat products from time to time.
The workers don't always understand the difference. Once I asked if they had something without meat at a drive-thru and the answer was "well... we have chicken and turkey..."
So vegetarianism is as much a journey as it is a destination. |