* Reason # 03 : IGNORANCE … Seeing as how I am still unrestrainedly in Love with Humanity , I choose to believe that this particular reason for animal consumption is by far the most common … In other words , I sincerely believe that the vast majority of my still meat-eating & still secretion-sucking human Friends simply still don ’ t know any better … In fact , it was this same simple ignorance that led me to regularly consume meat &/ or dairy products for the first 45 years of my life . Indeed , I vividly remember the day when I was calmly informed that most cheese is made using rennet – a byproduct obtained from the stomachs of freshly killed baby calves . To say that I was a cheese lover at the time would be a gross understatement – and to say that this news shocked me to the core would be even more so . I went home that very night and started researching the dairy industry ( I had already been vegetarian at the time for over 8 years ), and within a few days had gathered more than enough evidence to awaken me to the fact that there is actually no “ dairy industry ” or “ egg industry ” at all – that they are both actually vital appendages of the meat industry itself … And so , because animal cruelty is to me fully unacceptable ( as it almost certainly is to almost all of you ), I went vegan very shortly thereafter … And now that you have read this book – a series of chapters that quite clearly illuminates the myths & misconceptions behind almost all of the excuses commonly given for consuming our animal cousins – you no longer have ignorance as a justification for continuing to do so either .
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