Animals are the source of a lot of useful things: meat, milk, butter, cheese, whipped cream, honey, leather, fur, wool, gelatin, shellac, and even some medications. There are substitutes these days, but in many cases the substitute item is less natural and probably has a greater environmental impact than the genuine, natural product. Leather and fur are truly awesome materials, even more so because they are available outdoors in the winter, right where they are needed. Almost every single item in the lifestyle of a traditional Inuit family was animal derived: meat, oil lamps, hide kayaks and parkas, bone needles and harpoons, floats made of bladders and dog-powered hide & bone sleds. Is that more natural than subsisting on soda pop and potato chips? The latter diet, if you find the right brand of potato chips, is vegan.
But humans do a heck of a lot of unnatural things, many of them to our benefit, so whether veganism is natural or unnatural isnt a particularly good argument either for or against.
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