Is it necessary to be vegan or vegetarian to truly be an animal rights activist?
19 Jan 2012 | Animal Welfare | By ShilpiGupta
Is it possible to advocate for animal rights on one hand, and to victimize them on the other? Isn't choosing to eat animals the same as participating in tormenting them emotionally, physically and mentally?
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Its a very simple thing apoorv. If you care for the animals, you will never victimize them. If you know what these animals go through in slaughterhouses, the atrocities and suffering imposed on them so casually to savour a person's taste buds, you will think a thousand times before biting a piece of meat.
They don’t suffer and die for the farmer, for the slaughterhouse owner, for the food companies, or for the grocery stores. They suffer and die for you while you glorify eating the bodies and fluids of animals. They suffer through life and die horrific, brutal deaths because you gladly pay to do it.
i think its total hypocrisy if an animal rights activist is a non-vegen..how on earth can a non vegan activist feel for the animals he relishes if served dead on a plate!!! An animal rights activist should be a vegan logically!!!
I think people have a right to choose their own level of sensitivity. While we vegetarians also destroy life to eat, I don't support the idea that a person who is a non-vegetarian due to cultural or even prerogative reasons, might not endeavor to safeguard animal rights in a heartfelt way.