So let’s put this in the most heartbreaking hypothetical way I can. Let’s say a little girl has some sort of disease that is causing her kidneys to fail. Now unbeknownst to you, you’re a match. She’s been on the donor list for a while now and she’s near the top. You die in some unfortunate way and now she could get your kidney and it would hopefully prolong her life. But since she could be a meat eater, you’re not going to be on the donor list and she’s gonna die. You’re a jerk.I’m an organ donor. I also am somewhere in between vegan and vegetarian. I see a contradiction in this.
This means that if I die, any of my usable organs will be harvested and transplanted into another human being, if possible. However, the odds of any of the recipients being vegan or vegetarian is very small. Somewhere around 2% of the Western world’s population is vegan with up to a possible 10% being vegetarian.
Here comes my worry. Something in the region of 300 animals are killed over the life of a single meat-eater (according to this on American meat-eaters, but it may be much higher). So, almost all of my organs are going to extend the life of meat-eaters, which means that even if they live for one year, each of my organs is responsible for the death of multiple animals.
On that basis, both vegans and vegetarians should not be organ donors.
(via romanoff-bartons)
