animal ingredients list?

I feel it hurts our cause to expect people to memorize all these ingredients derived from animals. most of the population would not be able to remember and have the time or intuition to research/read all these ingredients. only a few animals die every year from miniscule ingredients finding their way in products. however, if veganism is seen as easily just avoiding meat / dairy /eggs ONLY - many more people will become vegan and save a LOT OF LIVES. I'd rather save ten thousands lives rather than one.

so we have a choice - spread our message to the general population that meat, eggs, and dairy should be avoided as much as possible - and if you can, all the time... or spread the message that everyone should be 100% vegan no compromise and memrize an ingredients list and not consume any of these products at all or else your 'not doing good enough'. it's obvious which one saves more lives.

if you don't want to consume any of those products, fine by me. neither do i usually. however, realize that you will never reach personal perfection because lots of stuff you use have animal products in them or contribute to animal suffeing: rubber tires on cars/buses have animal products in them, as does the blacktop on the road. also if you use a car or support public transportation - many animals die from being hit by cars. animal fat is used in the glue to bind books, to the paper you use (which cuts down trees animals live in), etc.....

...but compared to the scale of factory farming and how many billions die from that - it is very insignificant and hurts our cause. are we to expect people never to use paper, to walk everywhere rather than use cars, or to kill themselves so they don't contribute to suffering? to we actually think that.in some warped conspiracy that less animals will be killed if we all live like hermits? - or - if we carry around/post ingredients lists expecting people to memorize hundreds of animal ingredients?

we should spend our time educating the public on factory farming and giving them resources for cruelty-free eating and let them decide on their own time, at their own pace, how slow or fast of a step towards a diet with less or no meat/dairy/eggs. we can do this by paying for videos to air on public access, or by distributing literature about factory farming to those interested, open-minded, and young enough to make a significant change. outreach to young college-students is probably the best route because not only are they the least restricted demographic to lifestyle-change-barriers, but the changes the permanent changes that are made will be long-lasting and they will be around long enough and have much more to experience in their lives...enabling them to spread the message to their peers. outreach to 40 year olds or 60 years olds saves less lives because they will be dead in a few decades. outreach to 20 year old college students on factory farming and giving them info on steps to exploring meatless meals and faux meat alternatives is the best course to the massive long-term task of animal liberation from factory farms. vegan outreach provides the best (tested and proven) outreach materials the world has to offer, and will provide them to you for free to distribute as long as you give them out one-on-one to college students on a campus near you - to those interested. The adopt a college program has turned tens of thousands of students vegetarian - sparing millions of animals a lifetime of suffering. to sign up/ read more see: http://www.veganhealth.org/colleges/. Pangea, vegan essentials, and some other great sites are giving away gift certificates for the top 12 leafletters (by number of booklets handed out) for the spring 2006 college season.

Vegan Outreach Numbers...
August 1, 2003 - April 6, 2006

Schools Leafleted 477
Brochures Distributed 590,277
New Vegetarians* 14,757
Mammals and Birds Now Spared a Life of Suffering per Year* 516,492
Mammals and Birds Now Spared a Life of Suffering Over 50 Years* 25,824,619

*Theoretical (calculations)



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