Why aren't you Vegan?

Those are both carnivorous animals, who need meat in order to be healthy. I've heard that there are some vegan pet foods available, however, I've seen that their health tends to deteriorate on such diets. Be careful!

I only feed them the finest vegans, that I hand pick myself, their diets couldn't be any better than that.

I hear vegans aren't great sources of B12, so you might want to try a more nutrient dense source, say, a child from the Americas? They tend to have higher fat to bone ratios, meaning you're getting substantially more for your money.

However.

The idea of obtaining the milk in a manner that is "compassionate" is something that I have to question and is an area where I have great doubt. For a start, I doubt that the milk you consume is always "compassionately" obtained, and that your standards of compassion are going to vary from my own.

Cow's milk is meant for a calf. Cows only produce milk during lactation, meaning that a cow would have to be pregnant or have a calf in order to do so. This means that the cow either became pregnant naturally through insemination with a bull, or artificial insemination using a rape rack (a term founded by the industry, not myself.)

With this out of the way, then you have to consider what happens to the calf? Obviously, we want the milk for ourselves and the calf is only going to cut into our profit margin, especially, in terms of providing it with land and ample food. In most cases, the calf is either discarded for the vile industry, or bread into a fully sized cow in order to repeat the cycle of dairy production. By my standards, this is inherently cruel and unjustifiable.

The alternative, is that we keep all the calfs alive, which are produced by cows used for dairy consumption, and this will simply not be a cost-effective method of production.

Then you have the issue of the substantially reduced life expectancy caused by constantly having cows in a state of lactation. We're talking 20 years down to an average of 4 or 5.

Look, as I've already said, you're already doing a great job by eliminating most animal products from your diet and I'm not going to tell you that you have to go vegan. However, the idea of compassionate sourcing of milk is just unrealistic to me.

Those are both carnivorous animals, who need meat in order to be healthy. I've heard that there are some vegan pet foods available, however, I've seen that their health tends to deteriorate on such diets. Be careful!

I'd be more inclined to go vegan if the current vegans weren't so aggressive towards non-vegans.

I've seen posts on Facebook with vegans bullying non-vegans about the fact they have cow's milk in their diet, which is an extremely common ingredient in many foods. I get there are moral arguments against cow's milk, but vilifying someone for having it in their diet? You're hardly going to convince someone to change their whole diet by calling them stupid, immoral, or any other ad hominem attack or we would have cured many of live's ills by now using this "method".

Don't take it the wrong way, but I think it's petty to choose to live a certain way based on the kindness/rudeness of the demographic. You should be making this decision based on compassion and morality. The truth is, you're going to find *******s in every group, and sure, there's militant vegans, but there's also militant atheists, militant liberals, militant conservatives... The inclination to go vegan should come from guilt and self-reflection.

I get what you're saying, but by saying people should feel guilty for eating meat is exactly what I'm talking about. Why can't vegans just live their lives and get on with it without criticising people different to them saying they must feel guilty, immoral etc...