I’m sorry for this very long post, I didn’t mean for it to get this long. Curious to hear anyone’s thoughts on the ideas in general even if you didn’t read all of it.

Yes, you can go vegan and stop supporting animal exploitation.

It’s always cruel. There’s literally no way to make it not cruel, just less cruel in certain ways. Never “humane”, only “more inhumane or less inhumane”, and varying degrees of inhumanity

You’ve been deceived like most people, you really need to watch this documentary if you care about animals (especially cows and their calves), ethics, environment, etc. Even if health is not a concern to you.

This documentary, Maa Ka Doodh, goes into how the standard inherent practices in India’s dairy industry are abominably cruel. There is simply no way to do it ethically, something vegans are well aware of, not to mention the majority is mass-produced and even more cruel than the very extremely rare cases that are barely commercially viable and can only cater to a select few wealthy people, and even those are still highly cruel, just less so. Is less cruel = not cruel? No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maa_Ka_Doodh

They made it viewable for free on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhTOLeevtQw

Additionally, Arvind Animal Activist on YouTube educates the public about the ethical, environmental and health imperatives to go vegan from an Indian perspective:

https://youtube.com/@arvindanimalactivist8192

Hi https://lemmy.world/u/TheTechnician27 (I don’t know how to tag users, sorry), I just wanted to point out that one of your links is broken:

" * There are multiple benefits of a vegan or vegetarian diet [six listed, too long to quote here] in the management of CKD […] —Journal of Renal Nutrition (2019) "

This sends us to a broken link:

https://www.jrnjournal.org/article/S1051-2276(19

Here is the fixed link I believe: https://www.jrnjournal.org/article/S1051-2276(19)30026-3/fulltext

Hope that helps, and to make it easier to find and correct if you want to, the broken link in your post is the 15th from the top, or 10th from the bottom, I think. :)

You might be healthy now but evidence shows you would be at more risk of health issues, diseases etc, and mortality risk, especially later in life, than if you ate a plant based diet, and have worse health-and-life expectancy.

Additionally, you’re contributing to some of the worst environmental practices harming our planet and causing climate change.

Finally, the abuses of animals in other industries beyond meat production, not only are usually still contributing to the killing of animals for meat indirectly since animals are used for overlapping purposes, but are horrifically cruel in their own ways too.

Please watch this: Dairy Is Scary