Tldr mostly for my fellow animals, and because I can.
From the first moment I heard about it, veganism always seemed like the more ethically “evolved” position. Like blatantly so.
Not that I’m claiming to be more evolved lol, but it’s a relief to have my behavior more in line with what I know to be true.
I’m primarily against “factory farming” which I view as a moral crime on an unfathomable scale. So for years I just bought local from farmers I knew etc.
But then the more I learned about small scale farming and the more animal farms I actually saw (lots of local farms in my area) the more I wondered if any of it was defensible.
Then I realised I could just not partake in any of it and nothing bad would happen to me. Felt off for maybe a week max, but then totally fine.
Once I knew that, I couldn’t go back. Partaking in animal farming became a conscious and active decision that I had to choose to pay into, or just as easily, not.
Felt bad about the torture and murder. Accidentally killed an animal once and never got over it.
For myself, I am vegan for the animals.
I just could not justify participating in industries which exploit, abuse and kill them; especially once I learned about the true horrors they experience and the vast scale at which it all takes place in such frequency. It is a real, unending hellscape that happens behind societal curtains-- to such an extent that I can only imagine it must come to an end one day if we really believe ourselves to be an ethical species.
Vegan for them, vegan for life ♡
My thoughts exactly. We’ve made so much technological progress, but I feel like we need to reckon with the harm we cause before we can make any ethical progress.
I’m a vegan for health reasons. I just feel better. Over time the ethical aspect grew more and more.
I can’t argue the way out of it being the right thing to do.
It also brings and inner peace that I’m doing the right thing, though it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what or why other than because it’a just right
Yup. It’s like such basic morality that even kids grok it: don’t harm others unnecessarily. Easy.
So many families have to normalise hurting other animals for food when the children realise the facts. There’s a weird kind of brainwashing that happens as you bring out the corpse, and you know it’s from something that was killed for you to eat, but everyone you love is around you smiling and having a good time and eating pieces of it, and it doesn’t taste bad so you join in, and over time justify it you yourself because basically everyone you know is doing it.
It’s pretty fucked up when you think about it. Like, it doesn’t have to be this way. We choose to keep reproducing this culture in each new family.
