Why are you vegan?

Question

I am curoius if most are vegan because of abuse of amimals?

and if so if you had your own lactating cow or goat and could keep her in a happy safe and healthy condition, would you reconsider?

Thanks.

Answer 1

i'm vegan because i love animals and because it's healthy.

no i wouldn't reconsider. the milk from a cow or a goat belongs to the cow or goats baby. seeing as we are not a baby cow or baby goat we shouldn't drink the milk.

Answer 2

I'm vegan for ethics/animal cruelty reasons.  Obviously if I had my own cows and goats I probably wouldn't be vegan.  That's precisely why I wouldn't own cows or goats, unless they are party of a sanctuary where they are rescued from large-scale farm lots.

Now, after not having animal products for nearly a year and a half I see them as really disgusting.  I wouldn't want to eat or drink something that was inside their bodies.   That's just gross when you really stop and think about it.

Answer 3

I'm vegan because of animal suffering in the meat, egg, and dairy industries.

From what I understand, cows and goats must give birth in order to produce milk, like all other mammals. The problem becomes, what do you do with all of the calves and kids who are born to the dairy cows or dairy goats? I know a former goat farmer who said that most of the babies are sent off to slaughter. (There are way too many to keep, and very few people want to buy goats as pets.)

Also, cows and goats produce milk for their own babies -- not for us. We're the only species that regularly drinks the milk of another species. It's not that much different from drinking rat's milk, cat's milk, or zebra's milk.

I enjoy soy milk and see no need to drink milk from cows or goats :)

Answer 4

My primary reason for being vegan is for animal rights - I don't believe their suffering is justified. Even if we needed their products, we have the ability to live without it so why should we continue treating them as property?

My secondary reasons are for health (meat and diary can actually cause disease in humans including cancer and heart disease) and the environment (particularly because of the amount of land it takes to raise animals for slaughter).

If I had a lactating animal, I wouldn't need to worry about keeping her healthy, because she'd be lactating for her new calf. The reason humans "need" to milk cows is because we take their calves away. If it wasn't for that, the calves would drink the milk.

Answer 5

vegans dont eat anything from animals