Vegetarianism vs. Vegan-ism (response) (NoHN)

I am responding to the post here.

As a person who has been a lacto-vegetarian (drinks milk but does not eat eggs) for about 5 years I feel as if I can answer this from a personal viewpoint. In the context of this class it is not enough to be a vegetarian. A person can choose to not eat meat but they may have no ethical reasons for why they are doing it. they may say that they are doing it to be healthy or to cut back on their meat consumption. However, people who look at vegetarianism as an ethical pursuit are the ones who get the most out of it, in my opinion. The main driving point of vegetarianism is to treat animals humanely, veganism is an extreme of it (not in a bad way though). There is some middle ground. i.e.a  lacto-vegetarian drinks milk but not eggs, an octo-vegetarian eats eggs but does not drink milk. The whole point is that no animal should have been harmed in the making of the things you eat. There's a branch of veganism that does not eat meat nor do they wear animal products. There are vegetarians like that as well.  I think that the unborn question you posed is interesting. My opinion is that it deserves the same amount of humaneness as the living. However, if it was never going to be born (some people believe that eggs never grow into chicks) then go ahead, enjoy. It's all about the mindset and if your mindset is one that is humane and if that is your backing for being a vegetarian, then that is enough.

~Ama-Bemma