Childhood indoctrination

[littleendian]

Does anyone here think that there are logical justifications for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment? And more to the point, does anyone else have examples of childhood indoctrination (of a non-religious type) which they have managed to overcome?

Welcome! Vegans are of course used to the usual roll-eye responses, but it took some getting used to the stiff opposition to this idea even from people who supposedly are fans of reason. It's one thing to reason about theoretical constructs like "God" and it's a very different thing to actually apply ones thinking to ones own actions and ones very own dinner plate. Where it would actually matter for a change. Instead, people go on and on about whether God exists or not, which absolutely doesn't fucking matter nearly as much as our own actions here and now.

Never underestimate the power of herd thinking.

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I was a vegan, I got some serious health issues.

I'm sad to hear! Did you lose too much weight or what was the issue?