Childhood indoctrination

[Something completely different]

The question is about my personal motivation for veganism. As I've said here before, one of the few things I love more in my "mental realm" than reason is compassion, it sounds like terrible hippy bullshit but it's true, I want to fill my heart with compassion. I feel terrible when I see the images of what people do to animals, and as a mildly Buddhist guy I feel these terrible things will eventually come back to me (Karma) if I support them. I grew up with animals around and I've always perceived them as individuals with their very own interests and likes and dislikes, it just pains me to see them suffer. These cows have as much character and friendship and pain and joy in their dumb little lives as our pets do, and we let hate and terror rain down on them. It's not worthy for the human race, we are better than this.

So in short:out of personal expiriences.

One contributer in my case were the behavioral studies by Konrad Lorenz. I constantly tried to justify my vegetarianism and later veganism on scientific grounds. But constantly failed.

As my favourite western philosopher said:
"We don't only owe the animals compassion, we also owe them justice."

I usualy give a really harsh response after something like this. But anyway, I think that quotes cannot be sufficiant enought to be used as an argument, since when used in that context they are nothing else but a cheap appeal to authority.