My best friend is a vegetarian. I respect that and all and think it's great that she's standing up for animal rights. However, she wears and uses leather products, and uses art brushes with camel/horse hair, uses glue... etc. And I brought this up to her, and she shrugged it off.

So, what I'm posting about is, if someone avoids EATING meat, but uses it in other ways, isn't necessarily a "true" vegetarian, are they?

I don't see any difference in eating the cow and using its hide for shoes. She sounds like half a vegetarian.

Yah, that doesnt make sense. Well, it does.. shes a vegetarian not a vegan. But how could she just shrug it off? Animal rights are animal rights and they wont have any if you use their products. Im not a vegetarian because I was grown up on meat and like it. Id love to give it up, but I dont have the will power to do so. I try to buy the fake meat products though, but Im a sucker for cold cuts.

Yeah.I mean Amanda is a Vegitarian but one day I saw her in suade and I was like "Amanda you DO know that suade is cow right?".

Originally posted by Rockapella722
So, what I'm posting about is, if someone avoids EATING meat, but uses it in other ways, isn't necessarily a "true" vegetarian, are they?

i dont think she is a real vegetarian. if she really cared about the animals she wouldnt wear the leather, that kills them too. i dont wear leather or eat beef or pork because of my religion.

you can be a vegetarian for reasons other than animal rights. i know im non-strict just because i dont like pork, beef, etc...
and there are people who dont eat meat just because they dont like it or they're on a meat-free diet.

so in that sense it doenst not make her one if she wear leather.

if she is doing it because of animal rights...then thats really hypocritical.

I agree that it is hypocritical to not eat meat but kill the animal for other things. IMO, that still doesn't make her a non-vegetarian just because she uses other parts of the animal, because vegetarian usually only refers to your food choices and not your choice of clothes, etc.

I'm in between a vegetarian and a vegan. I become one because I thought it was disgusting to eat something that was once alive. I refuse to wear dead cows or sit on dead cows. But it all depends on why you're a vegetarian and how strict you are.

Now...what does glue have to with animals?!? Is there some kind of animal product in there?! :eek:

Originally posted by InspectorExstead

Now...what does glue have to with animals?!? Is there some kind of animal product in there?! :eek:

Horses hoofs (spelling?) is used to make it. they take the feet off the horse (am i right....?)

anyway, i was a vegetarian there for a while... it wasn't for animal rights, it was so i could loose a few pounds... o nce i lost the weight i wanted to, i slowly introduced back in meats.. i still don't eat pork though, but tha'ts mainly just a personal preference. So it all really depends on what the person is doing it for, y a know? If they walk the streets with signs protesting slaughter houses.. then they go on and slip out their leather coat, then yea , tha'ts a bit hypocritical.

I respect vegetarians beliefs, but doubt that if only a small percentage of the world stops eating meat that less animals will be slaughtered- in fact the animals meat would be wasted instead. I think maybe it'd be better just to eat animals dying of antural causes- cos It's controversial the animal rights thing. I am strongly against inhumane cruelty to animals, and anyone harming defenseless animals such as cats, dogs etc... should be imprisoned for 7 years and made work community service, perhaps at an animal shelter or something, and never allowed to own a pet again. But then eating cow, it's contoversial and confusing, cos I think animals have souls and feelings too. My last science teacher was a vegetarian.