If a vegetarian paid for a packet of crisps, started eating them, really liked them and then suddenly saw they contained animal products, would they be unethical or hypocritical in finishing that one packet they had already paid for?
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Mawgan
ANSWERS: 9
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Depends on why yo dont eat meat..if you dont eat meat for health reason..eat away if you like them...if you dont eat meat for ethical reasons toss them..you will feel like crap later
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No I don't think so. The purchase has already been made and the theoretical damage done. It would only be unethical/hypocritical if they then purchased another bag.
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I don't think so. I am a born vegetarian and I practice vegetarianism with a somewhat more liberal view. A little animal fat added to a ready made preparation that is predominatly vegetarian does not make much of a difference to my practice of vegetarianism, in my view. When all of us vegetarians know that all empties of the capsules that we take for health or life saving purposes are made of geletine, beef fat, a little animal fat in crisps hardly matters. I will certainly finish the basically vegetarian crisps and buy one more packet, perhaps, if I liked the taste of it.
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the company that produced them would be unethical. to knowingly eat them after realizing that fact would be hypocritical.
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Most vegetarians who call themselves that are not super-strict, or else they tend to call themselves "vegans." Some who call themselves vegetarians enjoy fish, eggs, chicken, bacon, cheese (which contains animal-derived rennet)and so forth. They don't have to answer to anyone but themselves if they finish the chips. The number of foods with hidden animal products is staggering though, it is very hard to entirely avoid them. http://www.cyberparent.com/eat/hiddenanimalsinfood.htm
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No. Wastefulness by throwing it away is ignorant because throwing it away does not do anything to help to bring those bits of animals back to life. Many are starving in this world. A practical way is to offer it to someone else. If that is not possible then you need to finish it yourself. Not knowing in the first place does not make one a hypocrite. Discarding it, once you find out, is verging on fanaticism or in some cases due to religious reasons. As long as you are more careful next time and check the ingredients properly, you have not broken from the vegetarian way of life at all by unknowingly eaten the wrong stuff.
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it would be if they claimed to be a vegetarian.
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Only if that's how they judged themselves. Vegetarianism is like any other life choice - a 'choice'; optional.
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When I was veggie, which I was for fifteen years, I was definitely veggie at the checkout. What I wanted to do was not to pay for the slaughterhouses. Once something is dead, you may as well eat it. But the money you pay at the checkout finds its way back to the slaughterhouses. But if you made a mistake - that is spilt milk. You cannot unpay the slaughterman or bring the animal back to life. So enjoy, for the moment - but don't buy those again.
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