Quote of the Day

[legalmoose]

The key to vegan sanity is to refrain from over-analyzing, accept that vegan "purity" is unattainable, and realize that aiming for perfection is counterproductive. This does not imply that we toss in the towel and give up. It merely means that we must realign our priorities if veganism is to have any meaningful and lasting effect.

- Joann Stepaniak

Comments

[kanzeon-2040.livejournal.com]

I like that one :-) As a mostly-vegetarian I like knowing I'm not the only one who views this as a sliding-scale sort of thing :-)

[legalmoose]

The article in question was talking about how some of the softeners used to "pre-wash" a lot of clothes use non-vegan ingredients in them. Joann, a very well-known author in the vegan community, argued, properly to my mind, that while purity is all well and good, we do still have to function in the world, and if you focus solely on purity, you're going to go nuts. ;-)

[deejayqueue.livejournal.com]

From an outside perspective, i think there are a couple different things going on here... on the one hand there are people who want to live without exploiting animals... that's great, more power to ya. on the other, there are people who would take any situation to it's logical extreme, in this case, veganism... how pure can one person be? i mean you can't breathe without killing millions of germs and microbes, those are living things right? you can't eat all the plants because then what will the cows eat?