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I'm right and the other vegans are wrong
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Vegans fight amongst themselves all the time, and plenty of them have different rules.
For example, veganism doesn't extend just towards diet but animal products overall. A lot of people will only focus on the diet or certain animal products such as leather though.
Really wish people would just agree to do whatever they can, anything helps.
Yeah veganism isn't a single set of beliefs, it's a range of practices and the people who do those practices do so for a rather wide variety of sometimes-overlapping reasons. I've never had a more heated debate about veganism than one with a fellow vegan.
IMO, leather really isn't a big deal. It's a by-product of the meat industry. Nobody is raising and butchering cows specifically for the leather. If nobody used the leather, then the skins would just be thrown away ... or maybe ground up and used in dog food or something.
it subsidises the meat industry.
It's also responsible for a not-insignificant portion of the meat industry's carbon footprint.
Valid, lowers the costs of the resulting meat and thus increases consumption
I agree, as well with things like sauces from shellfish shells that would otherwise be tossed.
However, I recently heard the reasoning (of a buddhist who tries to avoid animal products, i.e. would not actively seek out a non vegan option, while accepting non vegan food if offered) - would the product in question still exist if the animal was seized to be killed? Even if it was for a different purpose and leather, seafish shells, gelatin etc were just byproducts, they would not exist if the animal it is derived from wasn't killed for whatever reason.
I totally agree that it would be a shame to only use a part of an animal and let the other go to waste. Likewise, I get that "I'll do X as long as everyone else does Y" is a way of reasoning that ends up counterproductive and keeps us locked in a status quo. So, if someone wants to stop using not just the primary products of the meat industry but also the secondary, I can understand.
Fur on the other hand...
I mean, to be fair there aren't many if any first world countries that eat fox, bear, or really anything with fur. I understand some people shoot bears and such, but in talking about actual farms.
Yeah my bad, I meant the fur industry is almost entirely barbaric for the purpose of fur, as opposed to leather being a byproduct.
Though I have found a shop that allegedly has ethically sourced fur that they buy from Alaskan natives that hunt for food, but I don't think I have the means to confirm that.
So, basically like religion? Just follow the parts you want to and everything is good?