Why Smart People Stop Being Vegan

When someone who demonstrates a high level of intelligence and reasoning—and appears to have made a real ethical connection—goes back to consuming animals, it can be very challenging for vegans to understand. Let's take a look at how and why smart people can think their way out of veganism.
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This Bite Size Vegan video: Let's look at how and why smart people think their way out of veganism. Simultaneously recognizing the sentience of nonhuman animals while also holding the necessity of their use as a foregone conclusion is the same abstraction of their individuality & inherent rights that allows one’s intellect to shift from advocating for them to haggling over the “appropriate” terms of their exploitation.
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Chapter markers for navigation:
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Veganism isn't a matter of intelligence
01:20 Intellectualizing can work against veganism
02:24 The mental gymnastics of justified exploitation
03:48 The absurdity of appropriate exploitation
04:32 The power of the greatest lie ever told
06:19 The drive to preserve sense of self & reality
08:18 In closing...
09:13 My super smart outtake

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While exploring this topic was spurred by recent events with CosmicSkeptic it is not meant as a commentary.
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