Why I am not a vegan

[Night Owl]

The heart of the matter for me is why are soo many individuals not ready to become vegan?

Here's some possible reasons I could think of:

1: they enjoy the taste & texture of meat/dairy.

2: they're with a SO that really doesn't want to make the change & so consequently it'd be too much trouble for just them to do it.

3: they don't believe they're actually contributing to the problem. In other words, they may feel like their "vote" really won't count. When there's a large amount of voters it really is hard to feel like your vote counts. You can easily imagine the outcome of an election w/o your vote & more often than not it's irrefutable that your vote actually did do nothing bc 1 side never wins by 1 vote. (Sure if everyone thought that & they didn't vote then that'd be a problem but that's never the case.)

4: they think things will change for the better, & at the same speed, whether or not they take action to help make it happen.

5: they feel we shouldn't all have to go vegan to make the killing stop. They wonder: why does that have to be the only way, why can't the murderers of animals just stop killing & start waiting for the animals to die of old age or other natural causes?

6: they want to fit in with their friends & family & etc.

7: they feel like eating the animal is causing some kind of bonding with the eternal soul of the animal.

8: they feel like the animal chose to incarnate & suffer for the sole purpose of getting eaten by them since all is well & meant to be.

9: they find meat/dairy eating to be more convenient.

10: they're convinced their body needs it since it's always had it. they think they'll lose too much weight w/o it or get sick & etc.

11: they find meat/dairy to be grounding.

12: they give zero fcks.

That's a really good summary. This is true compassion as you seek to understand why this is happening and understanding it with love instead of fighting it like it doesn't have it's place in reality. Reality is what it is and meat is being eaten that some want it or not. Fighting it is useless, you can only succeed at fighting yourself. The choice of doing or not is personal and isn't relevant to any level of spirituality. It will be good for some to become vegan to evolve spiritually while some aren't bounded with such catalyst. Maybe one day everybody will become vegan but I feel compassion has a better way of spreading understanding about it than making people who eat meat feel bad about it. So far vegan/meat eaters thread have only been mirrors of lack of compassion. It is better to learn from it's result than suffering from it.