Any other Vegetarians out there?

[Nitrus]

(22-12-2009 03:46 PM)JHyde Wrote:  There are degrees though, and I think it's better to make some differences as a consumer than to simply say it's too hard.

If I can draw a comparison, I try very hard not to buy clothes or other products (like coffee) that are made in countries notorious for sweatshops or poor labour laws. I know I can't strike it all out, nor can I prevent other people from buying them in mass supermarkets or chains, but my purchasing power is the most powerful statement I can make, apart from my ability to vote. So as far as possible, I try and buy ethically made products, and the same goes for how I buy food.

It's very hard to cut out all hypocrisy, but it's better to be a little hypocritical and take positive steps in trying to make the world a better place (as altruistic as that sounds) than to simply say you can't or won't do anything about it. It's intelligent consumerism, and that can't be a bad thing.

Yeh I get that, and I understand that hypocrisy is unavoidable.. it's the people who preach to me about it AND are hypocrites, in my eyes, those people are worse than me.

I used to try and buy ethically, especially with fruit & veg, but then I became a student and it all went downhill.