On an ethical lifestyle and organ donation.
Reblogged from princess-scarlett-marie
I’m an organ donor. I also am somewhere in between vegan and vegetarian. I see a contradiction in this.
This means that if I die, any of my usable organs will be harvested and transplanted into another human being, if possible. However, the odds of any of the recipients being vegan or vegetarian is very small. Somewhere around 2% of the Western world’s population is vegan with up to a possible 10% being vegetarian.
Here comes my worry. Something in the region of 300 animals are killed over the life of a single meat-eater (according to this on American meat-eaters, but it may be much higher). So, almost all of my organs are going to extend the life of meat-eaters, which means that even if they live for one year, each of my organs is responsible for the death of multiple animals.
On that basis, both vegans and vegetarians should not be organ donors.
VEGANS, COME GET YOUR PEOPLE.
For some one who is so gung-ho about living a “compassionate” lifestyle, you sure are a fucking hypocrite. So it’s okay for a person to die, but not an animal?
And please don’t give me the “lesser of two evils” bullshit. You don’t know why people are not vegan. There are a shit-ton of very fucking valid reasons for not being vegan. I am in recovery from an eating disorder. I used veganism and vegetarianism as excuses to just. not. eat. If I cut something out of my diet, I run the risk of relapsing. There are people who have medical conditions, people who live in food deserts, and other reasons that, frankly, are none of your fucking business.
Tl; dr? If you would let a person die because you don’t agree with their diet, you are a despicable fucking human being. Period. Full stop.
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