Non-vegans calling vegans narrow-minded because we dare to consider someone else’s well-being and rights apart from our own, and they refuse to listen to us when we explain our sides of the debate. And yet, still;
They think our problem with wool is the action of shearing it off, and not the selective breeding, harmful husbandry practices, and pre-mediated slaughter that encompasses exploiting them for a product.
They think our problem with milk is that it hurts the dairy cows to harvest it, and not the forced breeding for genetic traits that contradict the animals best well-being, the stressful separation and denial of a familial bond between dam and calf, the slaughter after just a few years of harvesting, and ultimately the overall exploitation of someone’s body and life for a product.
They think our problem with eggs is baseless, but they ignore that egg-laying hens are typically slaughtered at less than 2 years of age because the amount of eggs we have genetically selected them to produce is unsustainable for their body and health no matter if they are caged or free-range.
They think that just because an animal is of a difference species, they don’t feel pain or emotion and it is within their rights to use them and harm them. They refuse to consider the consequences for their own actions and refuse to acknowledge that their basic rights don’t overrule someone else’s if they have no true need for it.
How are vegans still considered the irrational ones? When the continuation of such high levels of abuse for no other reason than convenience and preference is the opposing option?
