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CMV: It is illogical for people who believe that killing animals is wrong to agree with vegetarianism, but not think veganism is necessary.

I know that many people are vegetarian for reasons other than not wanting animals to be killed, but my post is specifically about people who believe that killing animals is wrong. Also, I understand that some vegetarians do agree with veganism rather than vegetarianism, but aren't able to be vegan (for whatever reason) and therefore choose vegetarianism as the next best thing - my post isn't about them either. Rather, I'm talking about people who are vegetarians (or believe that they should be) but don't believe that veganism is necessary. Also, I'm pretty sure of the facts that I state here, but my view could of course be changed by me having got some things wrong.

Milk and eggs are both produced by only female animals. For their production, therefore, a majority of female animals is required, with only a small number of males kept for reproduction. Most producers of eggs and dairy kill most male calves/chicks because it doesn't make economic sense to keep them alive. Buying milk and eggs therefore usually depends on killing animals, just like buying meat does.

Obviously, my argument is against people who support buying supermarket/restaurant/etc animal products but not meat. I understand why a vegetarian would buy milk/eggs from a place which keeps both sexes alive, but as far as I'm aware the majority of vegetarians/vegetarian supporters are fine with buying milk/eggs from anywhere. Even free range products usually come from places that kill male calves and chicks.

I know that some vegetarians have their own (female) chickens and eat their eggs. The problem with this is that places that sell chickens also tend to kill male ones, since people are generally interested in buying female ones for eggs. Again, there is clearly no problem with buying female chickens from a place that does not kill males, or breeding them yourself.

Reddit, CMV!

Edit: to be clear, I agree that vegetarianism is better than nothing at all when it comes to stopping animals from being killed. My argument is against the idea that there is no need to be vegan to stop animals from being killed for food, which I have found vegetarians to believe. My argument is NOT that people who don't want animals to be killed have to do everything that is humanly possible to prevent it.

Edit: my phone is about to run out of charge, but I'll try to reply to any new comments later :)
gpt
Their logic is valid. They don't want to eat meat because that meat directly comes from an animal that was killed. Eggs and milk do not require killing the host animal. 

Refusing to eat eggs because the male chicken was killed is like refusing to eat grain because a rabbit was killed during harvesting. So would you say vegans are also illogical, and should restrict what they eat even more? Maybe they shouldn't eat grains (which has animals dying during harvest) and eat only plants that are harvested by hand (like asparagus)