There Is No Such Thing As A Vegan Chart
Written by Vegetarian Star on October 26th, 2010 in Animal Issues, Food & Drink.
No Such Thing As A True Vegan
Think you’re a vegan?
Perhaps, in the strictest sense, you’ll reconsider after looking at this chart, which proves how hard it is to avoid animal products in our lives without extensively researching everything we use on a daily basis.
After reviewing possible animal ingredients in food and cosmetics, have you checked your air filters and wallpaper for cow-derived products? Is the plant-based item still okay if it grew in manure-enriched fertilizer? Should you pick another sport besides tennis if you can’t find a racket with vegan strings?
These are just items from a cow, by the way. Pigs, birds and fish creep into a vegan’s life at the most inconvenient times too.
How do you cope with the omnipresence of animal products in everyday items and is there a point where you draw the line and say “enough, I’ve done what I can?”
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October 26th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Poor vegans!
I don’t have much trouble with this…as most are “by-products” and are just making full use of the animal which isn’t so bad.
October 26th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Unfortunately, when you buy any by-products you are still giving money to the factory farms (inadvertantly at least). As long as you are paying them, they will see no need to change.
Unless you are a vegegtarian or vegan strictly for your own health, by using these things and not investigating or calling for alternatives, you are contributing to the suffering and death of these animals.
Of course you should only do what you can, but this is why it’s so important not to be complacent and to demand vegan alternatives be created as opposed to animal by-products.
October 27th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Vegan: to exclude products and practices of animal exploitation, as far as _practically possible_.
October 28th, 2010 at 12:03 am
So glad I can eat meat and be healthy doing it.
October 28th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Def not a vege, I feel sorry for you that you have so much time to waste that you troll vegetarian blogs. Hope your life gets better.
October 28th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
@Def not a vege, What’s a “vege?” Oh, did you mean “veggie?” I guess beef isn’t brain food, after all.
By the way, making inductive arguments isn’t a way to be taken seriously.
October 29th, 2010 at 4:24 am
Nathan – only the odious time-rich with no real argument would pick up on one very minor spelling issue. I’ll resist pointing out your punctuation error. Get an argument or sod off!
October 29th, 2010 at 8:13 am
@Kevin, perhaps you missed my entire second half, which presented the argument. No problem, I will explain it for you prior to “sodding off” (??)
Def not a vege created a weak inductive argument and attempted to use it in order to troll a site that clearly held no real interest for him, if not solely to mock others. In a stunning irony, you’ve chosen to attack me (ignoring the very applicable statement I made that an inductive argument is weak and clearly excreted to demean VegetarianStar.com and its readership.) Continuing the theme of irony, you slapped together your straw-man statement, focusing only that I pointed out “Def’s” spelling error (if I am to be insulted, I would at least ask that it be grammatically correct) and using this as your own argument (only possible by ignoring the real point of my post.)
PS: Oh, and I’ll resist pointing out that you’re mistaken, there was no punctuation error. OK, I’m off to lay sod, or whatever.
March 11th, 2014 at 12:50 am
The thing about the definition of veganism is, as Danu commented already, that is encompasses the sentence “as far a practical and possible”… We acknowledge we can’t erase all remnants of the use of animals, but we do our very best.
It seems to me that you are trying to persuade yourself you don’t need to think about your own contributions to animal suffering, by attempting to denounce vegans’ efforts. Vegetarianism is a great start, but researching Dairy will show you that it’s worth considering what else you can do.
With love and respect, Sarah.