The majority of obese people want to be thin, but will die obese anyway.
Just wanting something that requires a significant overhaul of how you do things, is not enough.
Just wanting something that requires a significant overhaul of how you do things, is not enough.
The people working in the bureaucracy do not have the authority to overhaul it.
You're not going to find a lot of vegans working in a meat packing plant.
Your first link is the first-person account of a vegan who went undercover to document the abject cruelty that exists in slaughterhouses. The pragmatism was in service of a mission to protect animals by disseminating information on such cruelty rather than the “I need a job.” type of pragmatism. There’s a moral distinction here.
> Basically, I'm an animal lover. I don't take any pleasure in what we're doing, but if I can do it as quietly and professionally as possible, then I think we've achieved something.
I was not at all referring to 'the "I need a job" type of pragmatism' (which would not be moral pragmatism for a vegan); rather, doing a job that involves killing animals in such a way that your presence reduces the marginal harm could be seen as defensible to a vegan.