Q and A

I still have a lot of questions about why vegans chose to abstain from certain things. Not eating eggs or dairy I get. Not wearing leather, makes total sense. Not wearing silk and wool I was still a little fuzzy on. Here's what I found:

Wool:
"Many vegans quit eating meat, eggs, milk, and honey for one very specific reason: they have a deep reverence for all living things and subsequently want to prevent all living things from suffering on their behalf...vegans often cite how scientists have bred sheep over the years to generate unnatural amounts of wool for human needs. This breeding has resulted in the Merino sheep of today, which often has enough wool to equal its body weight. As a result of this counter-evolutionary trait, the Merino sheep that exists today often has far more wool than it needs, which is evidenced by the high amount of sheep that die of heat exhaustion.
In addition to overheating in hot temperatures, many sheep end up freezing to death after they are sheared. The wool shearing process can also cause quite a bit of suffering for the sheep. Almost a quarter of all wool sheared from sheep is "skin wool," which is so close to the sheep’s skin that it is actually must be torn off."
Taken from - http://brucefriedrich.org/Vegans_And_Wool.html

Silk:
"If you wear silk, you are supporting the silk industry where billions of silkworms are boiled alive in their cocoons so they can‘t damage the silk by eating their way out of it."
Taken from - http://www.gentleworld.org/VEGAN/sarah's%20blog%20-%20morality.htm

I might have been born with an inordinate amount of empathy for animals, but to me, that is just unneccessary.