Due to the massive misinformation that utilitarian activists currently share, distorting the principle of veganism and communicating it as a diet, a lifestyle and an utilitarian idea against animal suffering, most of the people who become 'vegan' are not really adopting the vegan principle, but simply changing their diet to oppose animal suffering, and not animal use in its innumerable forms.
This is very problematic because veganism is not a diet, a lifestyle, or an utilitarian idea against animal suffering.
In reality veganism is: The ethical principle that humans should live without exploiting animals.
This means that it is the moral responsibility of all humans to live without using animals for any purpose because animals are in fact sentient beings and not resources.
We must understand and accept that to respect animals by not using them is not an optional matter but the most basic form of respect and therefore a responsibility all humans have as moral actors, towards all animals who, being unable to give consent, are moral patients.
To become vegan, means to recognize the lives of all animals and understand you must not use them for any purpose. And to recognize their lives, you simply have to question your conditioning which forced you to see them as resources to use instead of the sentient beings they really are.
The sentient beings you were conditioned to see as resources in reality have a subjective experience of life, a capacity to experience feelings and sensations. This means they are someone, not something.
It is essential to acknowledge that humans have no moral justification to use animals, who are in fact individuals.
Once you recognize the lives of animals and understand you must not use them, there is not going back to seeing them as resources to use.
This is why veganism is not a tag, that you can cut off when it starts to bother you, nor a choice, that it's up to your preference to pick. Veganism is an ethical principle for the emancipation of all animals from use by humans.
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