The Antler restaurant incident is such a good example of how a vegan can sabotage the vegan cause. Often what starts ethical veganism are the shocking conditions that food animals are kept and raised in. So when they attack those trying to source their foods from more a ethical place, it can have the affect of driving them away from the cause. Who wants to visit a restaurant to be attacked by protesters? May as well just go to the none ethical one and avoid it all.

There are those who attack people who slaughter their own, truly free range, excess roosters, rather than supporting the intensive farming industry and the practice of killing layer cockrels at hatch. Would they rather them just go back to buying purpose bred meat birds which have to be slaughtered before they are crippled?

I read a story about a rescued meat pullet, Marshy, who died at 6 months when her heart gave out. I tried to engage with the woman who rescued her, but she was vegan and very abrupt with me, so I stopped following her work. Slaughtering your own meat is not a nice task and I was starting to waver and thinking of going back to just buying it. It isn't the result this lady wanted, but her story about Marshy made me choose to continue with what I was doing if it meant less support to an industry which keeps hatching birds this way. I think she'd rather everyone turn vegan, but it's not an option for me. I can't digest a plant only diet well enough to get everything I need from it. I wish I could.

Thankfully, most people aren't extremist and don't attack.

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