Vegans, why do you think that its wrong to eat cheese and eggs and drink milk?

Question

O.K. what if you had your own dairy farm, no hormones, free range chicken, then would it be o.k.?

Answer 1

http://www.atourhands.com/miscfood.html http://www.meetyourmeat.com/ Enough said for me, anyway.

if I had my own farm (organic etc.) then yes, I think it would be okay. But when you think about it, cows milk is designed for calfs. They need all the fat, calories, etc. Also, personally, even though I think it would be okay moraly, I still wouldn't eat it. I think I'm healthier and happier this way. And we don't need it. It depends on your reasons for going vegan and your views on what is creulty and whether or not you care.

Answer 2

Over and above the fact that modern farming techniques create misery for the animals, there is the fact that in order to produce milk a cow must first get pregnant and give birth. The pregnancy is created by artificial insemination (in most cases), and soon after birth the calf is taken from its mother. Male calves are taken to a veal farm where they lead a short miserable life tethered in a pen to prevent excessive movement and muscle development (this keeps their flesh pale), then they are slaughtered after a matter of weeks. The female calves are fed a milk formula and go on to follow in their mother's footsteps. If by chance you have a cow that has had a calf and there is excess milk, then that's a bit different. But a vegan still would not use that milk, as they don't use anything from an animal either living or dead.

Answer 3

Cheese is created in mass quantities by subjecting animals to routine exploitation. How would you feel if someone put you in a cage 24/7, pumped you full of hormones and forced your body to lactate while they constantly milked your breasts? Did I mention that you can't move the entire time? Then, you realize that you are surrounded by not one or tow of your friends, but your entire family lineage, thousands and thousands of others, caged up in a warehouse, controlled by machine sucking at you and force feeding you? This is the reality of the dairy industry! Take this reality and realize the reasons behind it! The production of dairy products - cheese, milk, etc. All because you want feta cheese on your salad! It is immoral to treat other sentient beings like this. That's right, I said sentient. Animals feel pain, have emotions and are cognizant of their surroundings just like you! Studies have proven it time and time again. The only people who do not recognize this are too deluded by religion to realize it or don't care!

Eggs? Take the same idea behind milk/cheese and apply it to chickens! Instead of excreting milk, they are artificially induced into ovulating 10X more than normal and their offspring ae destroyed. They sit in tiny little cages, in atmospehrically and biologically controlled environments, caged for their entire lifespans with the only hope of dying.

Does that explain the vegan perspective enough for you?

Answer 4

I'm not a vegan but i am a vegetarian. In current practice, animals (e.g. cows, chickens) are fed with feed that comprises drugs and even animal droppings (i read this off the science reviews from the local paper). Many of these animals are tortured before they are slaughtered - that is, those like chickens are crammed into one tiny cage. In my opinion, vegans do not want to consume products that come from these animals who have been artificially (and i daresay sometimes 'unethically') bred. I guess vegans would rather go without the eggs/milk/cheese that have been produced from tormented animals.

Answer 5

Being a vegan is a philosophy -- a way of life. Incorporated within that "religion" is a belief that sentient beings are sacred as are human beings. The consumption of a mammal' s "perfect food", milk (or the byproduct cheese), by another mammal seems quite absurd, unnecessary and perhaps even sinful, seeing that it is produced only for the eventual consumption by the babies of that mammal. Mammals under ordinary circumstances will not volunteer their babies' milk to the babies of other mammals. Consuming the ova of animals likewise seems quite barbaric when there are alternative methods of obtaining nourishment without destroying that most precious bundle of potential life.
Also it is not that it is "wrong" -- for a vegan, it is simply an unacceptable food source. What you put in your temple (body) is your business; what I put in mine, is mine, according to my life philosophy.

Answer 6

OKay, personally I'm no Vegan. My friend is and I asked her the same question. She said she didn't consume eggs, cheese or milk because they come from animals.

Answer 7

eggs milk and cheese are derived from animals. Vegans avoid exploitation or harm of animals for food

Answer 8

i dunno bout eggs... but milk and cheese get the green flag from me. i'm a veg too by the way...eggs and meat come into the non veg category...hope dat helped ya..

Answer 9

http://www.ukagriculture.com/frame_set.cfm?page_var=Milk%20production%20the%20dairy%20day%20-%206.00am
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/chicken-egg-03.html
Look at these pictures and see why they think this is wrong.