Poll - mountaineering gear and veganism
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| SunBurned2. 05. 2013 15:49:38 |
I'm not a vegetarian, let alone vegan, but it seems to me that those dinosaurs who gave their lives for crude oil a couple of 100 million years ago weren't exactly deliberately killed for human needs.
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| lynx2. 05. 2013 20:03:22 |
It's probably also naive to expect that only leather is controversial. There are loads of raw materials, chemicals and semi-finished products of animal origin. http://imgur.com/gallery/uHkGY
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| Trobec3. 05. 2013 11:30:09 |
Well, that's what I wanted to point out... those who are so zealous that everything must not be 99.999% but 100% non-animal would then quickly realize that they can't actually use anything.
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| lynx3. 05. 2013 19:14:00 |
That's not entirely true, but the poll superficially focuses only on veganism due to (prevalent?) torture of large animals, which is just one of the possible causes. Due to the superficial composition, it'll be hard to draw any smart conclusion from it.
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| tol3. 05. 2013 22:12:12 |
I'm glad the topic is still relevant.
In everything there are extremes, which somehow shows up even in comparison with dinosaurs 
The essence of humanity is probably to survive? And as long as we can choose ways how to do it, groups will appear that practice it within their own thinking or beliefs.
I somehow agree that in today's world it's hard to separate/determine the origin of material, after all it shows in the latest meat scandal when the consumer doesn't know what they're even buying.
Similar with cheap equipment and clothing... how long will we close our eyes and open wallets for piles of items that come from under the hands of an enslaved 8-year-old?
I think there would be many more vegans/vegetarians and similar groups in the world if the entire (meat) industry was somehow kept in some "normal" frameworks. But the whole world got lost in an economy based on constant growth and increasing consumption...
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| Trobec5. 05. 2013 09:40:33 |
"I am of the opinion that there would be much fewer vegans/vegetarians and similar groups in the world if we kept the entire (meat) industry somehow in some "normal" frameworks. But the whole world has lost itself in an economy based on constant growth and increasing consumption... "
Well, see, I agree with that too. Many people's stomachs turn when they see huge farms where each cow has barely 2 square meters of space, a pig even less than 1m2, not to mention chickens.
But today's economic principles of constant economic growth are completely at odds with all natural laws...it just seems that all those fine economics doctors haven't gotten it yet...
I mentioned those extremes because they actually exist in some. Just like with halal products they search with PCR for that accidental 0.0001% pork.
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