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Vegan (vee-gan): one who uses no animal-source food or clothing: no
flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, milk/dairy items, animal gelatin, honey, etc; no
leather, wool, fur, silk, etc. An associate of mine, Miki,
states a vegan is someone who TRIES to live their lives without using
animal products. I say TRIES because, sorry folks, you really CAN'T be entirely
vegan! Sure, it's easy enough to give up eating meat and dairy and wearing
leather, but there are SO MANY hidden animal products, you can't live a life
completely free of them! For example, you switch from leather shoes to
non-leather... but are you sure that they aren't held together with animal-based
glue? Also, film is made of gelatin, so in order to be ENTIRELY vegan you'd have
to do more than just throw out your camera... you'd have to give up seeing
movies and even give up reading books, since the pages are first printed on
film... and for that matter, how do you know they're not held together with
animal-based glue? :) |