Why I am not a vegan

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Personally I think this way of thinking is... I'm not quite sure, evangelistic?

If I was to alter your sentence here slightly - "The heart of the matter for me is why are soo many individuals not ready to become [Christian/Buddhist/Muslim/etc]?"

Do you really think this is the same? It sounds logical, and it may be similar in phrasing, but I think there are great differences.

There is great suffering as a result of factory-farmed animals. This suffering includes the planet and its ecosystem. That is the main difference. These animals don't have a choice (unless you want to include the guess/hypothesis/supposition/rationalization that the animals chose it on a soul level.

In other words I think if someone ate vegan but hated every moment of it they would probably become very unhealthy, maybe much worse than otherwise. Unless, perhaps, they have absolute faith that it works regardless of any enjoyment.

This is true. It's true of any conscious disconnect that humans operate by. It is the responsibility of the individual to square his/her decisions with his/her reactions, and not poison the self and the existence of the all with hate.

I think it is an extreme, unrealistic example however. I am vegan out of love. That love I think, would be part of any vegan's decision not to contribute to animal suffering. There is love of self even if the vegan has become so out of self-interest only. Hate is a choice like everything else.

You can choose to eat meat based on love of self too, or for other reasons of love. Regardless of how many people deny that because of their own justifications for their choices.

I don't think it's different. How many suffer because of religion?