Questioning Vegan / was Digest Number 479

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sometimesimcold> wrote:

> I just want to know for

> certain that this is fact the case. That being a

> vegan doesn't just contribute to the killing of a

> different type of animal more then the killing of

> another.

 

Okay - now I see what you are concerned with - I think. It's not that you wonder

if it's all worthwhile, as I understood from your first post, but that you have

come to think (from what evidence or argument?) that veganism kills too ? Is

that right? That somehow we cannot be free from killing our fellow creatures

either directly or indirectly - whether from polluting the waters with the

chemicals from factories that produce the vegan garments, say, or from

catching fieldmice or insects in harvesting equipment, etc etc. Am I on the

right track here?

 

Before I respond further, I would like to know if this is what you now mean.

It's

awkward to answer what you *think* is the question and then be knocked out

of the sky for having answered the wrong one LOL But,. as a short cut to this,

remember giving up vegan values and practices does not decrease the loss

of life but increases it. If we could all be like the Jains, perhaps, that would

be

best in this context - but even then, there is bound to be loss of life.

 

Anyway, I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for writing in again. I

thought you had just posted a query and run away ;=) I'm glad it's not so.

 

Best,

 

Pat ;=)