any vegan nurses in the group?

[Guest guest]

I am about to qualify as a nurse and have a mixed up head about being

vegan and using products which have been tested on animals to save

human lives. When I started my training almost 3years ago I was

veggie and quite naive about how much of conventional medicine

involved animals. My goal is to practice complementary therapies

using my nursing knowledge in a few years time, but for now I feel

the need to gain some nursing experience. I would like to chat to

someone to bounce ideas off. alex :-)

[Guest guest]

Medical research is, on the whole and in my judgement, indiscriminate,

loosely regulated, unpoliced, and done without compassion for the

animals concerned. Having said that ...

 

The vegan society definition includes the qualification " as far as is

practical " . Few of us would eschew modern medicine if we were seriously

ill. (Tested on animals or not, I would probably be dead without my

inhaler.) In my personal judgement, eschewing modern medicine falls

under the heading of " not practical " .

 

Unless no vegans are ever ever going to go into a hospital, we will need

someone to nurse us. And if it's okay to get nursed, it's got to be okay

to *be* a nurse.

 

I'm sure some of the list would disagree. But that's my opinion.

 

twinklepurplefairy wrote:

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> I am about to qualify as a nurse and have a mixed up head about being

> vegan and using products which have been tested on animals to save

> human lives. When I started my training almost 3years ago I was

> veggie and quite naive about how much of conventional medicine

> involved animals. My goal is to practice complementary therapies

> using my nursing knowledge in a few years time, but for now I feel

> the need to gain some nursing experience. I would like to chat to

> someone to bounce ideas off. alex :-)

>

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