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When Vegetarians Stop Justifying and Start Rejecting

Vegetarians are sometimes celebrated for rejecting flesh, but what about dairy?

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Jul 11, 2025
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While they refuse to eat the bodies of those they had killed indirectly, their continued financial support of the dairy industry, an industry built on exploitation, separation, and commodification, results in a moral contradiction researchers call the "dairy paradox": holding values that profess to condemn harming animals, yet consuming products which do.

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