Any Vegan or vegetarians?

Hi, I'm transitioning into veganism but am 100% vegetarian rn & about 80-90% vegan aim towards at least 99.9% Vegan

kshama2001 wrote: »

It's helpful to realize that when vegans have that philosophy as a starting point, the extent of the harm to the living creature is simply moot. Vegans do not want to participate in what they consider to be exploitation, just as many other people don't want to buy clothing made with sweat-shop labor....

Read more http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-fashion/vegan-clothing-explained.html#14503916475081&action=collapse_widget&id=0&data=

I agree that veganism is an ethical stance, but like all ethics there is always a range and interpretation. You might as well say there is only one kind of Christian. Moreover, from my experience we are all hypocrites. Just not to the same degree.

So I speak for myself. I know that people who call themselves 'Vegan' will be closer to me in ethics that e.g a not otherwise specified 'Christian,' but that still leaves a lot of room for differences. In general I value and respect life, and I do not view one life as having more intrinsic value than another. Given a choice (and other than my time as a soldier in war I have not had to choose my life over another,) I choose to live and let live; to prosper and let prosper.

I consider another's death for my pleasure anti-ethical. That is probably a common denominator amongst Vegans. I say 'in general' because I can be harsh for example towards mosquitoes and flies. If they come into my home and do not take the hint when I open the window or door for them they are on my radar for elimination.

tylerrl1664 wrote: »

I am currently a pescetarian (which means I eat seafood but no land animals). Eating two separate fish fillets today really had me on the edge of wondering if I even want to eat seafood anymore.

I stopped viewing animals as food right about 40 years ago. I used to scuba drive, and one weekend I brought home an abalone for family and a lobster for my girlfriend's Japanese Mom. After I watched the abalone writhe in it's shell as it was being scooped out, and heard that lobsters were boiled alive I never hunted animals again.

I call seaweed seafood. Arbitrary of me, I call zooplankton seafood too. Fish I call fish.