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by Michael on November 30th, 2011

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if the definition of Veganism is(read description please).

Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived wholly or in part from animals, doesn't that mean that they can't use anyting from china cus they use childrn lioke slaves and jewlery because of the ahrd pain they have to go trhough mining for little moeny in afica and other places

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  • by 773491 on January 11th, 2012

    773491

    I know several vegans who are very strict about not buying stuff from sources where it's likely that human animals were exploited in the production process. We should all do that, not all people are animal rights people (sadly), but most of us are human rights people, aren't we?

    But even if some vegans occasionally buy coffee that isn't fair trade, this doesn't mean that all their efforts are in vain. It's still better to do something rather than nothing. And before one starts calling people hypocrites for doing 98% good stuff instead of 100%, one should start doing something good oneself.

    It's pretty much impossible to buy electric stuff that hadn't been produced under bad working conditions. At some point, even dedicated vegans need to make exceptions. If one uses a computer to make money, which one can then donate to cost-effective causes, or if one uses it to promote veganism, then the overall effect is much better than not buying the computer, even though it might not be produced all vegan.

    People are too strict and purist about "vegan" as a label. I see it as trying to minimize suffering.

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  • by canoeguide on November 30th, 2011

    canoeguide

    That's a very wordy way of saying "non-rational." Most of those attributes are not the sole provenance of vegetarians who are trying to claim moral or ethical superiority in defense of an artificially derived life style. Only a tiny majority need to lead a vegetarian life style; for all the others it's purely arbitrary.

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  • by iwnit on November 30th, 2011

    iwnit

    1) It would be better for you to use a spell checker.
    Please state your question inside the question field and only use the description for supplementary information.


    2) To be vegan is a choice. You can theoretically use anything, but you just prefer not to use products involving animal exploitation. The focus is generally on non human animals, but you certainly could extend it to humans.


    3) Humanism should actually make us avoid products whose production involves the exploitation of human beings.

    "The China Youth News said that 44 of the 206 foreign-owned companies or joint ventures in Shenzhen employ children less than 16 years of age (China, pars. 4-5).

    The United States imports of pyrotechnics and explosives from China is approaching $1 billion. Children are working in the fireworks industry. A recent report described an explosion at a fireworks factory in Hebei that killed one child and injured 34 schoolgirls ranging from 11 to 13 years of age. Investigators found that the school children had been forced by their teachers to work for slave wages making firecrackers. The children were promised 20 fen, 2 cents, for making one long braid of firecrackers, but in reality were paid three fen, 0.3 cents. In March 2001, 42 people, most of them third and fourth-graders, were killed in an explosion at a school. The school blow up because the Chinese use young students to make fireworks in order to keep the price lower than their competitors. The younger students are required to assemble at least 1,000 fireworks a day while the older children, fifth-graders, are required to make ten times that many (Farah).

    Newspaper and journal reports indicate that children are also working in the garment and textile industries of China. Imports of apparel and textiles from China to the U.S. market are reaching beyond $4.5 billion each year. It was reported that China's number one textile firm at Qingpu employs children aged 12 to 15 years old that recruited were from the neighboring province of Anhui. In Chungsan City, a foreign textile enterprise employed about 160 child laborers and a 14 year old was killed after her hair became tangled in her machine. Journalists also found 12 year-old children sleeping two to three in a bed in dorms and working 15 hours a day for $10 per month (Lindsay).

    The International Child Labor Study staff also received numerous claims of the use of child labor in toy, sporting equipment, and game factories. The United States imports approximately $4 billion worth of toys, games, and sporting goods from China every year. A Business Week article reported that, in order to meet the holiday demand for toys, girls at a plant were ordered to work one or two 24-hour shifts each month. The average North American toy maker earns $11 an hour. In China, toy workers earn an average of 30 cents an hour."
    Source and further information:
    http://ihscslnews.org/view_article.php?id=57

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  • by New Elian on November 30th, 2011

    New Elian

    Don't they kill too much plants? :-?

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