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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had this conversation years ago. In high school, a girl who was a vegetarian (a pushy one) wanted to know how I justified wearing the suede shorts that were popular at the time. While she was wearing leather shoes. I asked her if she thought my shorts and her shoes came from a different cow. She tried to justify the shoes saying it was hard finding quality non-leather shoes. It was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now.

Same with the car seats. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have accepted the car, but…either you believe in not using/consuming animal products or you don’t. If that means you need to replace your shoes more often, then that is what it means. Not “I wear leather shoes because it works better for me but we shouldn’t eat meat”.[/quote]

People go vegetarian for different reasons—health, the much lower environmental impact, or ethical reasons such as they don’t want to kill animals. Only in the last case, and [b]with veganism, is it really all or nothing. [/b] [/quote]

Luckily for them, you are not the vegan police. [/quote]

Lol, I’m transitioning to vegetarianism, so no, I’m not the vegan police. Just trying to figure it all out. This was from one of the books l’m reading. I was trying to open the tent a bit, and I have to say I find smug folks like you a little off-putting. [/quote]

PP isn't trying to be off-putting. But it really is irritating when people who haven't been living with this diet or way of life try to tell us what we have to do or who we are or how annoying we are or whatever. I think that's what PP is responding to. People who are new to this and trying to figure it out - welcome. We're really happy to have you here. But please try not to lecture us about how we "have" to do this or "can't" do that if we want to be "real" vegans or vegetarians.

Figure it out for yourself. Decide what works for you. Eliminate leather for a while and see if that works for you - and if not, decide what you can live with (recycled leather, leather only for shoes, whatever). You don't owe anyone else an explanation for the choices you're making. [/quote]

New vegetarian here, and … yikes. Sorry if I “annoyed” you, and that makes two of you (so far) who have gone after me about something I read in a book about vegetarianism by a supposed expert on vegetarianism. I have to second the advice to maybe go on the attack a little less frequently, and be welcoming a little more frequently. [/quote]

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