Great post Jess! I was ~99% vegan from August to February and since then I’ve been vegan. When I was 99percent I didn’t drink milk, eat eggs and only ate cheese 4-5 times for pizza or vegetarian salads. I also ate things that contained small amounts of egg whites or milk powder. I’m currently vegan but I think I might start eating things that contain small amounts of milk powder. The lives of dairy cows are, as you mention, not as bad as for example chicken and cows produce large quantities of milk per day, so the suffering caused per gram of milk powder would be pretty low. I’m not particularly interested in “moral purity” and I have experienced people seeming off-put by veganism, and to some extent vegetarianism too, by me being strictly vegan so I’m not entirely sure that me being strictly vegan has a net positive impact. I probably won’t be eating cheese though since the production of cheese involves rennet, which makes it almost non-vegetarian in my eyes.
Great post Jess! I was ~99% vegan from August to February and since then I’ve been vegan. When I was 99percent I didn’t drink milk, eat eggs and only ate cheese 4-5 times for pizza or vegetarian salads. I also ate things that contained small amounts of egg whites or milk powder. I’m currently vegan but I think I might start eating things that contain small amounts of milk powder. The lives of dairy cows are, as you mention, not as bad as for example chicken and cows produce large quantities of milk per day, so the suffering caused per gram of milk powder would be pretty low. I’m not particularly interested in “moral purity” and I have experienced people seeming off-put by veganism, and to some extent vegetarianism too, by me being strictly vegan so I’m not entirely sure that me being strictly vegan has a net positive impact. I probably won’t be eating cheese though since the production of cheese involves rennet, which makes it almost non-vegetarian in my eyes.