The Vegan Thread

I can live without torturing and killing animals, so why shouldn't I?

Easy for me... I don't agree with how animals are kept and killed before being packaged up for someone to chow down on a faceless piece of meat, they're treated as commodities and are worth more than that... they are living, breathing animals after all that have feelings

The other responses are all about killing animals. The main reason for me is that it's better for the environment. Modern meat/dairy consumption is unsustainable if we want to avoid dangerous climate change, catastrophic ecosystem loss, etc.

So I'm not a "proper" vegan by some people's definitions. e.g. I don't care about getting "consent" from bees - I would rather eat honey than agave syrup flown over from Mexico, etc.

(Veganism is not enough to stop climate change, but meh) (Also I'm being flippant about bees; it's a complicated topic)

I work with environmental technology, and most of that is focused on cleaning soil and water from contamination originating from animal agriculture or the intensive farming that is required to produce enough feed and food on a limited amount of land.
I also swore to do anything in my power never to get cancer after both my mom and mother in law had (and survived)it. Such a shit disease.

So in the beginning it was:

• Climate/environment
  
• Health
  
• Animals
  
  

Now it’s more like

• Health
  
• Animals
  
• Climate/environment
  
  

But still, if eating animal protein were healthy I wouldnt do it because of the cruelty. If clean meat comes, I won’t eat it because of health, and if animal protein production didn’t fuck up our planet, I still wouldn’t eat it because of the two above. It’s the convergent case for Veganism right there

Even more intriguing; what are your reasons for a non-vegan lifestyle?