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you can base the should on anything you want--heart healthiness, taste, how the animals are raised, etc.
I partially agree with this attitude, but I partially disagree. I understand that the extent of your empathy is your own damn choice (sorta). It's also a slippery slope in either direction - no matter where you draw the line, it's arbitrary. I could say that I extend my empathy towards plants, meaning that I would choose not to eat plants. The other extreme end is that I don't have any damn empathy at all, and I would eat a perfectly healthy human child. Gotta draw the line somewhere, and vegans just choose to do it at animals.
Personally, I consider health first and foremost, then economics. If everybody on the planet was vegan, then (according to a resource which I do not remember) the easy crops to grow - the same ones which animals can feed off of - would need to become more difficult crops. In a sense, the animals act as an intermediate.
So veganism isn't really "garden of eden", it's very technology-dependent. A lot of the hopeless hippies (admit it, there are a lot of hippie vegans) do not acknowledge the technological requirements of it.