Cruelty-Free Living
by Vegan? Vegetarian? Is it possible to live a cruelty-free lifestyle?
Honey: Some vegans refuse to eat honey, but, if you think about it, honey production actually requires people be nice to their bees… as such honey is good to support.. also if you buy candles try buying Beeswax Candles, they are environmentally friendly too.
Lifestyle
Pet stores who sell animals (particularly puppies and kittens) support the very cruel industry of Puppy Mills, if you want a pup buy from a breeder or adopt from a shelter rather than rewarding a store for encouraging people to breed pups for no other reason than to make a profit.
Spay and Neuter! Millions of kittens and pups are euthanized every year because more are born than there are homes for, even if your kittens find homes, it means somebody else’s did not. If your pet has babies.. do not give them away free. It is a well known fact than many serial killers started on “free to good home” pets.
Know your brands. Some brands say “This product has not been tested on animals” BUT the ingredients might have been tested prior to forming it into a product.
Make smart choices in your health… Bad lifestyle choices may mean a lifetime of being dependent on drugs whose manufacturing process involved animal testing.
Be aware of the cruelty in the production of some drugs, particularly female replacement drugs for menopausal women. Many were made from pregnant mare urine, at the expense of the slaughter of thousands of foals as “by-products” of the industry. Most of these drugs have “PREM” in their name. You can buy similar drugs made from Yams.
We all know dog fights are cruel, but so is dog and horse racing. Dogs are killed when they are no longer racing… and horses are often pushed to race too young, before the age that many horses are even allowed riders.
Shop at second hand stores, less manufacturing means less suffering. If you buy a used fur coat, or silk shirt, you are NOT contributing to cruelty.
Do not put poison out for bugs or mice. Poison is a very cruel suffering death. If for some reason you must kill a bug, do it fast, otherwise simply scoop up the little guy and take him outdoors.
Do not be cruel to other people either… when you are mean to one person they tend to take it out on other people, or animals.
Other
Some people will argue that eating a tomato is just as cruel as eating a cow. But let us not be idiots. A cow feels pain, a cow feels bored when kept in a feedlot knee deep in poop. A tomato plant is not killed when its fruit is picked. It grew that fruit for the purpose of it being eating in order to spread its’ seeds. In most climates, the plant itself would then die in the winter. The argument that plants suffer on the same level as animals is silly. While they may suffer, it is probably not to the same extent. Tomatoes are not raised cruelly.
It is impossible to live 100% cruelty free, but we can try to be aware of what we do, what we eat, what we buy, and how we think.
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Post CommentAmy
On March 13, 2008 at 2:13 pm
“Massive deforestation has taken place simply to raise vegetables”
People often cite this as soybean acres, for example, have risen dramatically in recent years at the expense of rain forests. But the largest portion of those soybeans (and other new grain growth) is to feed livestock, not to grow vegetables for human appetites. The earth cannot support this level of livestock farming and by association the amount of meat eaten. Eating “wild caught game” occasionally is not going to solve this problem, but going vegetarian will…
B Nelson
On March 17, 2008 at 11:24 pm
NO SOY is raised for “grass based” or “pasture raised” cattle… I am NOT a supporter of “FEEDLOT” raised cattle, and never will be.
If everyone cut down the AMOUNT of meat they ate, we could raise meat with less cruelty.
Tony
On April 14, 2009 at 7:58 am
“….we could raise meat with less cruelty”
…and then slaughter it.
You make a lot of fantastic points but, but however you dress it up, killing’s still killing, and it’s not needed
Anne
On June 4, 2010 at 11:05 am
It is possible to try and live a cruelty free life, your literal definition of it is stupid.
To say you’ve stepped on a bug so you can’t be cruelty free is your easy way out of trying, occasionally we might make a mistake like that but on my part it wasn’t intentional. Its just an excuse to say that and people end up saying well why even bother!
It would be a step in the right direction to buy slightly ‘less’ cruel products like wild game but its still too cruel.
There could be so little cruelty in this world if everybody bought carefully and people weren’t so lazy.
To be honest we could maximize the cruelty free living till their was almost none (except for the odd bug which might be killed by accident) but people don’t want to because they love their materialistic lifestyles with their cars, holidays, iphones, ready meals and make up and want to live in a pretty painted house full of cheap wood furniture and plastic nik naks.
Its true, virtually all of us are guilty of it, but there is really no excuse for it. We are supposed to be the most intelligent species but we don’t act like it!
Also it would be better not to eat meat because food for a few vegetarians might take some land and water, but it takes far more land and much more water to raise animals and grow food for them too!
Alot of the problems with the environment are caused by man messing with the it in the first place and will not be sorted by eating some people eating wild raised game.
Your article needs alot more research, but i guess your telling people what they want to hear. ~ “Do a bit here and there, because theres no point in bothering any more than that!”