First, thank you for commenting. However, I disagree with your comment. It is, for the animals in question, a matter of life and of death. Once you take a life, you cannot bring it back. That makes it, for me, an all or nothing issue. Either you support the slaughter of animals (regardless of species) or you don’t. When you talk about saving lives, there is no middle ground.

If you want to understand the ethics of veganism then take a look at the work of people like Gary Francione. For example, http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/faqs/

I certainly do not claim to be be exempt from similar hypocrisy in my own past. In fact, I have publicly questioned my own past behaviour on my blog in a post titled, “Are Vegetarians Hypocrites Or Was I The Only One?” Check it out to see if any of it resonates with you?

The bottom-line here, Herwin, is that PETAs anti-fur campaign is undermined and loses much its credibility by using people who are so clearly ethically inconsistent in their behaviour to animal rights.

I take back nothing of what I said. ANYBODY, who consumes animal products, regardless of their anti-fur stance, is a participant in the exploitation of animals and cannot, by definition, be pro-animal rights.

Peta has so much more campaigns besides the anti fur campaigns. Its all about raising awareness at odrinary people, its not for you and me who have a PhD in Veganism so to speak.

I really think it stinks to call people hypocrites and it certainly doesnt have any positive effect.

I myself am a vegan for a long time, ten years i guess. Before that however i was a vegetarian and did eat eggs and cheese and milk, all which i consider now as bad and even more worse then meat in terms of animal cruelty. Would that justify however insults from mudslingers like yourself (a “true” vegan, right ?) to call me a hypocrite ? how can you call people who do make efforts in terms of reducing animal cruelty, even if its a lousy one, a hypocrite ? for me, you and these mudslingers are people living in an ivory tower who are really negative and hypocrites yourself about veganism and animal rights. Were you born vegan ? me dont think so. Would be nice, right ? If in your meateating days somebody came to you and insulted you.my guess is you NEVER would want to become vegan anymore. What we really need is education and above all RESPECT, that way change will come and change will stay.

challenging is something diferent then insulting. the first is done with arguments.