Questions about Veganism

and responses to arguments against it

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  It's possible you'll encounter some negativity towards veganism
   and it's pretty much guaranteed you'll hear the same tired
    old excuses to use and abuse animals over and over again.

    Below are questions or justifications you'll probably hear.
      Feel free to share them where needed, or perhaps take 
       a look yourself if you think they're a valid argument.
         Just click on a statement for a detailed response
           along with images, videos, helpful links and more...

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• What is veganism?

• Why do you care so much about animals when people around the world are starving?

• My friend mentioned 'Speciesism' - what's that?

• Eating meat is my personal choice and nobody else's business

• Why do vegans think they're better than everybody else?

• Stranded on a desert island, a vegan would eat meat to survive

• Humans have always eaten meat

• We've got canine teeth that are made for eating animals

• But humans are top of the food chain

• Humans evolved to eat meat, we're designed for it

• Eating animals is just the circle of life

• Animals kill each other in the wild, so it's fine that we kill them too

• But plants have feelings too

• We need animal products for our health and vegans are unhealthy

• I need to eat meat for strength and vegans are weak 

• We need to produce meat to feed the world

• Just because I eat animals doesn't mean I don't love them

• I only eat humanely raised meat and free-range eggs
  

• Killing animals isn't the same as harming them

• Farm animals are different from pets, and they're not as intelligent

• Taking eggs doesn't harm chickens

• Taking milk doesn't harm cows

• Cows have to be milked or they'll burst

• Farm animals are bred to be killed, so it's okay to kill them

• More animals get killed when we harvest crops than are killed on farms

• The Bible says God put animals on earth for us to use and kill

• If we all went vegan, farm animals would overrun the world

• If we all went vegan, farm animals would go extinct

• Where do vegans get protein?

• Where do vegans get calcium?

• I heard it's hard to get vitamin B12 if you're vegan

• What about fish, I thought they don't feel pain?

• Taking wool causes no harm

• Taking honey causes no harm

• What about leather?

• Doing medical experiments on animals is a necessary evil

• I like visiting zoos/aquariums/sea world - the animals are happy there

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                "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
                                                                                       - Martin Luther King Jr

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