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Old 24-09-2016, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Debrah
Hi mogenblue. A question here, how do you know that someone will never change? Bob Comis was a pig farmer who used to blog about farming pigs in the Huffington Post. He's a vegan now. Howard Lyman ran a herd of 7000 beef cattle operation and a massive dairy farm for 20 years and now he's a vegan. Somebody made a statement to them and they changed and compassion became their mantra.

Seeds are tiny (a sentence, an image, a vegan meal...) but which of us can know when we plant them?

It could equally be said that people who were once inclined to a vegan diet now partake of animal products, and I suggest the vegan=compassion paradigm is fundamentally flawed. This is not to say that that there are not valid ethical reasons for having a vegan diet. There certainly are. It's just that people who consume animal products are not inherently less compassionate than vegans.
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