If you’re a vegan about to enjoy Christmas with your non-vegan family and friends, you’re almost certain to endure a torrent of questions and challenges directed at your lifestyle choice.
For Christmas is peak plant-based Moral Maze time, with our dads asking about the ethics of soy plantations and our air miles and our grans claiming that cows would all die miserably if we didn’t suck the milk from their teats.
But one question that comes up time and again, within and outside the vegan community, is where vegans should stand on getting pets.
Veganism, to some degree or other, is the refusal to consume any animal products.
That means eating meat, fish, dairy, eggs, and not buying leather, suede and any other animal hides for fashion or interior purposes.
Why? Well, because animal production is one of the leading causes of greenhouse gases on this earth. Many of us believe that eating meat and dairy is positively… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/25/should-vegans-own-pets-7183221/
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