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What do you see as vegetarian rationalization?

It seems reasonable to me that someone may have no trouble with animal products so long as they don't involve killing or inhumane conditions.

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There isn't really an animal-using industry that involves humane conditions. Most justifications to the contrary are usually in bad faith, such as citing mom and pop farms or whatever as if that were even remotely the bulk of the sourcing. Even the fact of breeding animals specifically for harvest is already terrible, no matter if it's done by a kindly old couple or not. You would never treat a being whose life you value in this way.

Well, that fact that the dairy industry is very inhumane and involves killing animals.

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