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I’m partly vegan because I believe bigotry is wrong. Prejudice or treating others differently because of the group they’re in, is wrong.

I don’t think it’s right to kill, abuse or exploit other animals just because of their species.

If it’s wrong to kill a dog then it’s wrong to kill a cow.

If it’s wrong to fund a puppy mill then it’s wrong to fund a factory farm, as 90% of farmed animals live on factory farms.

If fur is wrong then leather is wrong.

And if as a human, I wouldn’t want to be treated like an object then I have no right to treat another animal like a product.

Speciesism is a kind of prejudice and it’s wrong.

reminder that cows don’t need to be milked, horses don’t need to be ridden, and that animals are not on this earth to be used for human convenience.

Animals and humans suff er and die alike. If you had to kill your own hog before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. To hear the hog scream, to see the blood spill, to see the baby being taken away from its momma, and to see the look of death in the animal’s eye would turn your stomach. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you. In like manner, if the wealthy aristocrats who are perpetrating conditions in the ghetto actually heard the screams of ghetto suffering, or saw the slow death of hungry little kids, or witnessed the strangulation of manhood and dignity, they could not continue the killing. But the wealthy are protected from such horror. . . . If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

Dick Gregory, 1968

Becoming a vegan has opened my eyes to so many things that I had no idea were a thing before. I didn’t know about environmental racism, food deserts, artificial food scarcity, or human rights abuses in the food industry before. It was VEGANS who taught me about these things.

So how on earth people can claim that vegans don’t care about human rights is beyond me, because vegans seem to care a lot more than your average non-vegan.