How is a vegan diet more "ethical" than a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet?

its generally said if you drink milk, you support veal farms, since cows have to give birth to calves regularly to keep their milk production up... these calves are generally butchered.



if you see an egg farm, where they have hundreds of cages stacked on top of each other with little to no room and chickens on top crapping on ones below, you can see why many don't consider this ethical.How is a vegan diet more "ethical" than a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet?
because vegans use absolutely no animal products and a lacto ovo vegetarian uses dairy products and eggs or food with eggs in itHow is a vegan diet more "ethical" than a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet?
Corvato is right- except they left out that in egg factories/farms, when male chickens are born, as they serve no purpose (they cant lay eggs), theyre either thrown in the garbage to die or ground up alive (usually for hotdogs, I believe).
I just don't think it's right to impregnate a cow against her will, steal her calves, pump her full of hormones and antibiotics, attach her to a painful machine, and steal her milk that was intended for her babies. Anyway, I think drinking milk is disgusting. I wouldn't drink some woman's breastmilk, so why would I drink a cow's breast milk? Isn't it odd that humans are the only species on earth to drink the breastmilk of another animal?



Same with eggs. Chickens live in little tiny cramped cages without enough room to even spread their wings and their feet often grow around the bottom of the wire cage. Then they are also given hormones to increase their egg production. Cage free usually isn't any better, unless you are buying eggs directly from a local farm where you can see the conditions of the chickens. Once again, why would I want to eat the egg of a chicken? That's just gross to me.How is a vegan diet more "ethical" than a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet?
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Eggs (Battery cages, ground up baby chicks)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ--faib7鈥?/a>



Dairy: (All baby male cows are killed or made into veal)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7_bX6dk鈥?/a>
A vegan diet is more "ethical" in relation to the abuse that is forced onto the animals being used in the dairy and egg industries. In this excerpt you can see why it is "ethically wrong" to support the egg industry.



"Sickness and disease are inherent problems in factory farms where birds are forced to live in filth and extreme confinement. In an attempt to minimize costs, even the sickest of hens are denied veterinary care. Hens are left to die a slow, and often agonizingly painful, death from sickness and injury. An undercover investigation done by Mercy For Animals uncovered birds suffering from raging eye and sinus infections, mechanical feather damage, pasturella, paralysis, vitamin deficiency, enlarged vents, wing hemetones, and blindness." -http://www.exploreveg.org/issues/eggs.html With just this excerpt alone, can you honestly say you'd want vitamin deficiencies, disease, and bacterial infections linked directly to the egg you eat in the morning?

Then there's the dairy industry that some of the other Yahoo answers have provided evidence to "ethical" issues of dairy consumption. I have no problem with meat, dairy, or eggs but unfortunately our country's farming industry cares more about quantity than quality in concerns to antibiotics, steroids, hormones, pesticides, and deadly heavy metals... Good luck with finding out what you need to know. It's a scary topic most people would rather be ignorant about.How is a vegan diet more "ethical" than a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet?
It is not more "ethical" except in some peoples mind.

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