True, it's impossible to avoid using animal products by accident. It takes a tremendous amount of research to find alternatives for most of this shit, and it's impossible to avoid inadvertently benefiting from animal exploitation if you desire to live anything resembling a modern life. If you walk into a building, chances are you just caught a whiff of air conditioning that depended on an animal product to function.
It's damn near impossible to maintain a vegan lifestyle in a lot of the United States even when you give up technology. Travelling across Kansas by bicycle, I once caved and ate a straight-up burger when the village I wound up at after a century (isolated by about 60 miles from any other settlement) had no grocery store, but did have a burger joint. They had synthetic mayo, but no real mayo. We live in a fucked up country.
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10-25-2010, 09:28 PM
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