Yoggy
I thought vegan didn't just mean "as far as possible", but also "as far as practical". It is possible, but not practical, for you to go live in the bush and eat only fruit from trees and bushes, and not walk on the dirt (since ants and other insects live in the dirt and you won't want to step on them), and not wear any clothes (because animals were killed in the harvesting of cotton for clothes), etc. etc. You can only avoid animal exploitation as far as is practical for you, and that line is different for everyone. A vegan is someone who does as much as they honestly can to be vegan. People who eat honey are not doing as much as they can; anyone can live without honey. But there are other things that it is not practical to avoid eating, like fruit, vegetables and grains. Someone who eats only fruit, vegetables and grains is doing all they can practically do to avoid animal products; someone who eats fruit, vegetables, grains and honey is not.
As an example: I try to recycle as much as I can, whenever I can. But I work in an office that deals with classified documents, and we can't recycle these papers for security reasons. We have to shred them and burn them. I try as much as possible not to print classified documents, but sometimes that's not practical, and I have to print them. I don't feel too bad about this, because other than this one case where I have to throw away paper, I do all I can to recycle everything else the rest of the time. It's the same with animals incidentally killed by crop harvesting. Yes, some insects/mice will die, but other than that, you are avoiding animal products as much as practically possible the rest of the time, so you are doing as much as you can.
Edit: I just noticed your last post. You think that if a person "chooses a modern lifestyle", they are still having an impact on animals. That's true. There is no way to have ZERO impact on the animals and the environment, period.
But if you choose to greatly reduce your impact, you are doing far more than people who choose to do nothing to reduce their impact. Would you rather recycle NONE of your paper than only recycle half of it??? Half is better than none.
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