Why I am not a vegan

[anagogy]

I'm not sure why there are those who dismiss this world as nothing but illusion. But if that's all this is, then it would follow that everything is an illusion, and a case could be made for that. But illusion, no illusion, reality, unreal...what does it matter? It is something, and we are here. 

I don't "dismiss" the world.  I just know that physical world is a small portion of the reality.  Illusion doesn't mean something doesn't exist, that it isn't real, it just means it doesn't exist how you necessarily thought it existed.

I don't sit in a void, where I do nothing don't care who or what I do it to, because whatever, its not real right?  I serve in all sorts of ways, because it is who I am, and brings me joy to bring others joy in that fashion.  Perhaps I don't serve in the same way that you serve, but I serve nonetheless.  I just don't have a particular investment in the outcome.  So in that sense, perhaps I am detached. What I do, I do as a function of it being as pure an expression as I can muster of me. The world has/is/will be fine regardless of what I do, or do not do however.

May I ask if you have seen anyone close to you suffer and die?

Many.  Death is a part of life.  So i'm guessing you're wondering if personal attachment makes it harder to see illusion as illusion?

Naturally, of course it does.  I'm not completely disidentified with this world.  But I know death isn't the end, and that with it, you reemerge into pure positive energy, and reenter this world from a new vantage point, karmically determined to some extent.  So I haven't fallen prey to the misapprehension that death is a bad thing.  Nothing really dies.  And those who suffer are healed.  And getting emotionally worked up rarely lends itself to more pristinely rational thought.  And irrational thought is no help to anyone.  

"It is to be kept in the forefront of the faculties of intelligence that there is one creation in which there is no loss."