Why I am not a vegan

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This supports my assertion that our choices DO make an impact. It's simple cause and effect.

Well, that is a great assertion, and I certainly won't disagree with you.  But I never said your choices don't make an impact.  Certainly they make an impact.  Just not the way most people think they do.

Your choices certainly affect what happens to you.  They just don't have a massive impact on what happens to others.  If outward actions appear to do that, it was incidental to the manifestation already unfolding.  The people who seemed to be the instruments of change in the given situation, were simply the cooperative components drawn into that action in consciousness that was already in full swing.  As I said before, we are all creating our own circumstances.  So if you close off one path of manifestation, it just reincarnates in another manifestation.  You take a vaccine to prevent a disease, and the imbalance simply reincarnates as something else, because its root cause was never in the physical to begin with.  And it is the same with the disease of "factory farming".  The manifestation is symptomatic of a deeper level of consciousness.  I mean, I could sit here, and quote a bunch of statistics back at you to support an opposing position, and then you would do the same back, and then back and forth again.  It would be similar to arguing with people over health information.  One person quotes one study, the other quotes another study saying the opposite.  Back and forth.  Back and forth.  Never ending.  And then, when people are exhausted with that, we're just left to our personal beliefs/opinions again.  

So by all means, take whatever actions you believe are efficacious and meaningful, and I will do the same.  Peace.  All is well.