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You may not be aware of this, but the dairy and egg industries kill an insane amount of animals. I too was an ethical vegetarian for years before discovering th

• ergothus 10y ago
  I'm in the process of reducing my dairy and egg intake. Soy milk was okay, but I've found I much prefer almond milk, and it works well enough in my cooking. We have some egg replacer we use for baking, but I've not yet tried in it cooking dishes. Cheese is a harder one, as the vegan cheeses aren't bad on a pizza but don't fill all the roles of cheese for me. You make an excellent point about those industries - I originally had a comment about them above, but dropped it as it was getting a bit (more) off topic. My point at the time is that I'm not ethically against the actual act of eating eggs or consuming dairy, but you are correct that those industries, even many of the "friendly" ones, do things that I'm not ethically okay with. The hardest part about becoming a vegetarian was actually admitting to myself that my actions AREN'T ethical by my own definitions, and that I would have to accept that while not giving up on the idea of improving. Kind of like how we are about charity - we all spend money on our own frivolities that we would spend to help someone in need were they in front of us...but we try very hard to not have such issues in front of us.
• ensiferum 10y ago
  AFAIK the egg industry throws the male chickens in the grinder alive and keep just the egg producing females.