How many are against humans harming and exploiting animals?

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11. I'm sure veganism is very rare here, although

it may be a higher percentage here than in the general population. I assume liberals are more likely to be vegans. I'm a vegan and don't feel it's necessary to kill animals for food, and certainly not for sport. Even if there wasn't an horrific factory farming system that is the stuff of nightmares, I still wouldn't participate in eating animals. It's just not in me. I think it's some sort of genetic thing and also more common based on personality type.

I will point out, much to my satisfaction, that an inordinate amount of the most intelligent and notable people in human history have been vegan/vegetarians. And before anyone says Hitler, just don't. Even if he was, which is disputed, he was at best doing it for his health, which is just a completely different story. Of course, there have also been very intelligent meat eaters too. But counting Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Da Vinci, Susan B Anthony, Ben Franklin, Edison, Einstein, Jane Goodall, Tolstoy and numerous other writers, and a host of other fascinating people among vegetarians/vegans, has to mean something.