[sputknick]

I want to ask this in the most respectful way I can, because I always try to appreciate different points of view: why would people need an "excuse" to consume animal products? That wording sounds like you think of it as a priori a bad thing. I get my beef and pork from a farm where the animals live in fields eating wild foliage until the day they are slaughtered. Would you argue that is unethical? I intend this question in the more respectful way possible, I just want to know if vegans are aware that their are (what I think of as) ethical ways to eat meat.