Veganism

I recently cut ties with my sister. Not because she's vegan, but because she's vegan because the monthly boyfriend is vegan. And the way she presents herself. She literally feels she is better than everyone else because she doesn't ingest animal products. And has gone so far as to proclaim that she can't understand how someone ignorant enough to consume flesh can work a computer, among other wonderful things. Nevermind that literally everything we have in our life causes the death of an animal in one form or another. It is completely lunacy to condemn others for their eating habits, while still utilizing products and services that cause the death of an animal. For example, electricity. most electricity is made by burning fossil fuels, which pollutes the food and habitats of animals, causing death. Farming (veg, tobacco, cotton, etc.) causes deforestation and loss of habitat, leading to animal death. Pollutants for using vehicles, causes animal deaths. Pesticides, housing being built, new roads, factories, most products, most foods... the list could go on forever. I have no problem with veganism. None. I DO have a problem with anyone who claims they are a vegan for the sake of animals, but then uses products or services that also cause painful death. Ever starved to death? Probably not, but that is exactly what happens to many animals due to loss of habitat. How about being poisoned to death? No? Plenty of animals are. Just because it's not a cow or pig or chicken doesn't mean it's not important... but I know the vegans in my life seem to forget about rabbits, deer, beavers, hedgehogs, etc.

Basically, my point is this.

I believe in being a whole person. Not picking and choosing snippets of a cause. We're each entitled to feel how we feel, and live our lives as we decide best fits us. But please, don't preach me to me that a steak is murder when you poison the air the animals breathe with pollutants spewing from hair products, pesticides, and vehicle tail pipes, or smoke cigarettes with tobacco grown in fields that kill animals by removing their natural habitat.
You may not eat flesh, but you're as much a murderer of animals as I am, just in a way that you somehow can justify and feel good about in your self-important, lunatic mind. So have fun with your cigarettes, gasoline, imported foods, and pretty much every product you use that directly causes the killing of animals through deforestation and other means. Don't feed me the righteous "I'm soooo freakin' vegan! Yay me!" bullshit because you've decided you're on an existence higher than that of someone else purely because you choose to ignore the fact that they way you live also makes you a murderer of animals. It is not being a "hippy" to recognize the negative mark you make on the lives of the animals you so righteously claim to love.

Until your vehicle is a bike, your food organically grown in your own backyard, every product you use proven to not have at any point caused deforestation or air pollution, and you've given up electricity (as most electricity is formed by burning fossil fuels, which = pollutants), FUCK YOURSELF. Harming an animal is harming an animal, whether you chew it or not. You're a fucking hypocrite to knowingly cause an animal death but then condemn others for doing the EXACT SAME THING in a different way.

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Again, I support veganism. I do. It's not for me, but it's not for me to judge. My issue is with self righteous behavior stemming from picking and choosing snippets of a cause, and them condemning others for not feeling the same way.