Ask about vegetarianisim and veganisim

[ginorwine]

Ok so I hate the way a great deal of meat gets on our plates - gross .
Was a veggie for 20 years but then decided to eat high welfare meat - this was on the basis that I felt being a veggie was sort of running away from issues / avoiding them as well as refusing to participate in meat producing industry were I could ( aware still had cheeses etc so not entirely )
I chose to eat high welfare meat as I wanted to use my consumer power to buy a good life for the animal and use consumer power to ' vote ' for this
As opposed to being invisible to the meat industry iyswim
In this way I felt it was contributing in a small way to saying the industry needs to be kinder and for animals to have less miserable exustsnce
However I just can't eat meat anymore
But I feel that I'm avoiding the issue almost
I wonder if anyone can explain to me in what ways veggie or vegan help animals by being not meat eaters - I'm
Hoping to address this - I can't be an active activist but would be willing to donate or support relevant campaigns .
Thanks - felt amibu to decide to be veggie / vegan when I actively want animals to have a better life and death

If you truly care about animals, don't eat them. Your money is paying for slaughterhouses, and all slaughterhouses would be shut if no one ate meat, eggs or dairy. I became vegan because I wanted a world without slaughterhouses, and its the only way to work towards this

That is very idealistic and never going to happen. There will always be a need for animals to culled across the world due to no natural predators etc.

And to insinuate that you cannot truly care for animals when you eat them is straight out of the militant vegetarian handbook and does not sway people to your side of the argument.

I know plenty of farmers and vets who care deeply for animals and animal welfare and all eat meat.

animal sentience to be recognised in the UK