Choosing the Green Ring

“As a vegan, I am often told that I should ‘respect [someone’s] decision to eat animals’. This can get problematic, because that is the antithesis of veganism as an ideal. I will elaborate, but first, lets look at what the word “respect” really means, because I think that often it is misused in this context. If the person truly understood what veganism was, and had a full understanding of the meaning of respect, then they might get why the two can not be used together that way.” Chris Poupart (via thevegancheese)

(via crimsoncorundum)