Beyond that, there are plenty of animal products that vegans refuse to eat even though taking them doest harm the animal or cost its life. Eggs, dairy or butter, etc.

You should do some research on what industrial scale dairy and egg farms are like. It's not much better, and in some cases worse.

Common practices include:

• Throwing live freshly born male chicks into blenders

• Chickens being confined, thousands at a time, in small dark spaces where they spend all their lives. Often dying to wounds from fighting each other due to being kept in such unnaturally close proximity

• Due to a variety of tactics to maximize eggs per chicken, they often deplete their calcium, meaning they break their bones when attempting to stand

• Dairy cows often spend most of their 'useful' lives (4-5 years) in concrete boxes barely larger than their own bodies, head pointed to food, and grates behind where waste can flow

• The calves taken from dairy cows (necessary for them to begin lactation) end up in the same meat industry if male

• Dairy cows, once out of their prime, end up in the same meat industry