[Sevenseas]

I'm confused by your post. Do you get your milk from some kind of Hare Krishna place where the cows die of old age, are not artificially inseminated etc.? If not and if you instead buy your dairy products from the store like most people, then the production of those products requires death (not to mention a lot of suffering), and people buying those products cause that death (and suffering) to occur.

Dairy producers are making their choices for you and others who buy dairy.

 

[Sevenseas]

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Originally Posted by jazz121

This thread has me thinking. I'm lacto-ovo and that's as much as I'm able / willing to do. I'm a veggie for animal welfare reasons. But thinking about all the suffering and death caused by the dairy and egg industries I'm wondering is there any point in me being a veggie at all? I'm doing so much harm by consuming dairy and eggs I might as well eat meat?!

Being lacto-ovo is better than being omni. If you're not ready to go vegan, why would you choose the worse over the better?

 

[Sevenseas]

I think you should try to change that "all or nothing" thinking into a "one step at a time" thinking. You can do smaller things like replace some particular lacto-ovo product with a vegan one and think that you're making the more compassionate choice by doing so, even if you won't go completely vegan (yet). Before you know it, you might be taking more and more of those kind of small steps. But even if you won't, you have still improved your diet ethically

Especially if you won't stress about the minor ingredients at first but avoid the more obvious products like dairy ice cream, you have a lot of the same alternatives to choose from as before, but have still made a change to your consumer choices.