How about this? Ask her how she can justify eating vegetables...
As motogrrl has pointed out in the past, at least a slab of cow is decently dead when I poke it down my throat. That raw carrot, though, is still quite thoroughly alive. If planted, it will grow. ...Ditto -- of course -- nuts, berries, fruit.
For a quick exercise in trying to understand how they can justify that, consider the first item in the FAQ at vegan.com (http://www.vegan.com):
Q. What is a vegan?
A. [...] veganism is more about what people choose than about what they avoid. For example, vegans demonstrate respect for all life — their own, the planet's, and the animals' — not only by eating plant-based foods, but also by [...]
So there it is: vegans demonstrate respect for all life by killing only certain kinds of life.
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motogrrl has pointed out in the past, at least a slab of cow is decently dead when I poke it down my throat. That raw carrot, though, is still quite thoroughly alive. If planted, it will grow. ...Ditto -- of course -- nuts, berries, fruit.
For a quick exercise in trying to understand how they can justify that, consider the first item in the FAQ at vegan.com (http://www.vegan.com):
So there it is: vegans demonstrate respect for all life by killing only certain kinds of life.