Question:
Given that Vegans are against any kind of cruelty to animals, and some even extend it to condemning the ownership of pets, how do you live in your home knowing that animals were displaced from their homes in the development of the land?
GreatBuddha: Huts are homes, too. However, far fewer animals would be displaced if we just set up huts in open fields and gathered berries. So in the balance, huts win. And why else are people vegans? Enlighten me. It requires an awful lot of effort to make the vegan diet anywhere near as healthy as, say, a vegetarian diet that allows milk, eggs, and cheese. If it’s not concern for the animals, then what is it?

8 Responses to “Vegans, how do you reconcile your philosophy with living in houses, apartments, etc?”

  1. Some of the people giving a response are real arseholes.

    I am a vegeterian and often think about how sad it is that we take land from animals and that humans destroy their habitat. I never had a desire to live in a house when I’m older and would live in a forest without a house if I had a choice. My greatest wish is that we go back to when animals were the only ones who roamed the world or at least when only aboriginals lived and respected animals and earth.

  2. Not all vegans are vegans because of animal cruelty.

    But for animals being dislace with homes and development of land, they would have been displaced either way.

    If we didn’t have homes animals would still be displaced, because we would have civilizations and huts.

    So its a lose-lose situation for the animals.

  3. I’m not vegen, just vegetarian, but it’s almost impossible in this day and age not to own or do something that hurts animals in some way; no one’s perferct but at least they are taking steps to prevent harming/killing animals.

  4. Humans are often displaced by progress too. Mother nature occasionally relocates the residences of all species. To expect all cruelties to cease is expecting utopia. A fictitious, boring place, without problems or challenges.

  5. I don’t live within walls. I’m homeless by my own free choice, and I don’t want to live any other way. I don’t drive a car, or even ride a bike. I try to consume as little as possible, in order to lessen my footprint on the ecology.

  6. Give it up. Your asking people to justify an emotional response with logic and reason. Wont work.

  7. I’m vegan but I don’t think killing animals to eat or wear is cruel.
    But you have a point about the people who do feel like that.

  8. doesn’t make any sense to me.

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