I'm surprised nobody ever brings this up...

The making-of-veal-with-calves-from-dairies was my main reason to decide to go vegan (gradually) along with the fact that milk is only for infants, and its kinda sick cross-breed milking... So yea I understand where you're coming from. I made a quite a chaotic sounding thread the other day on here... Explaining that I has decided to go vegan but my love of cheese was too great!! The advice the other posters gave me was great, so it gradually, find substitutes for the foods you love, don't force yourself to cut everything out right away.

I know how you mean when you say a hypocrite, I felt like one when in the beginning I said I wanted to phase out the dairy in my diet, because technically I was still supporting the trades when I was eating that gorgeous piece of mozzarella... But its easier to phase it out than go straight vegan... Apparently... I've been a vegan/official veggie for like.. a week? xD But meh

You'll know whats right

 

Well i don't see how you eating eggs is any better. It's just as bad. After those chickens stop laying eggs they're off to the slaughter houses.

and yes you did say it to me personally when you quoted my name before you wrote it :toetap05:

 

By far the most important thing is not to eat meat. The meat industry is certainly a much greater source of cruelty to animals, and it is the fundamental problem. The fact that calves from dairy farms are often sold for veal (how often, I wonder?) does not mean that we need to boycott dairy products. Instead, we should support calls for dairy farms to abolish this practice. The problem here is the existence of the meat industry, which leads some dairies to sell calves for veal. If there were no meat industry, the dairy industry would not engage in this practice. Therefore, it is the meat industry and not the dairy industry that is the real problem.

In any case, dairy products are an excellent source of nutrition, and it would be a shame to let them go to waste. Milk, yoghurt and cheese provide good sources of protein, calcium and more for vegetarians. I would encourage anyone who is interested to look into the attitude towards cows in India which extends back to ancient times. The cow is regarded as a source of food and symbol of life, and thus may never be killed. While vegetarianism is very common, veganism is essentially unheard of, and dairy products play a very prominent role in Indian cooking (which is one of the best cuisines in the world for vegetarians). Most Indian vegetarians eat dairy products but refrain from eating eggs (hence, they are lacto vegetarians).


Krishna and Balaram with a herd of cows (Hindu art)