If everything inevitably takes resources from the earth to create, then what is truly vegan?

Let's me try to explain it for you.....Veganism isn't about your carbon footprint. It's abstaining from the use of animal products. Ethical vegans reject the commodity status of animals and the use of animal products for any purpose, while dietary vegans or strict vegetarians eliminate them from their diet only.

But let's, for the sake of argument, look at the scenario you describe. Now, you say that it takes gasoline and/or diesel fuel to get a hemp belt to the store? Well, wouldn't it also take gasoline and/or diesel to get a leather belt there as well? If all you're interested in is your carbon footprint, then, so far they're equal. So how does that make being a vegan a waste of time? You could just as easily argue that it makes being a meat eater a waste of time. So you'd have to look at how leather is produced. First you get a calf, raise it from birth to about 2 to 3 years, grow food for it, water that food, use a petrol driven harvester for that food, package that food, and when the cow is big enough you send it to slaughter by a truck that uses petrol, slaughter it, skin it, use harsh chemicals to tan it and then send it to the belt maker.

Hemp? You grow it, it requires few pesticides and no herbicides and produces up to 25 tonnes per hectare. The hemp fibre is separated from the woody core and cleaned, graded and packaged. It would then be sent to your belt maker.

To sum it up, a LOT better for your carbon footprint.

Veganism is not directly linked to carbon footprint though it is greatly lowered & some adhere to the diet for that reason (eg that Whale wars captain guy Shepard). Veganism is neither about being a martyr, it is about doing the least harm.

We accept we live in an imperfect world, we build houses through animals land, we deforest their land for fuels & furniture, we step on them when walking. That does not mean we are justified in raising & eating them because we cannot go 100%.

A "hippy" is is a woman with a generous figure.

If you mean "hippie", or someone who opposes the status quo...

yeah. I got nuthin'. Veganism is by definition opposition to animal commodification. Period.

In being one, someone chooses to not fund the most polluting industries on Earth.

But it's not an environmentalist movement.

Lest you embarrass yourself with ignorance yet again,

here's a site I like to use when I don't know jack sh!t about something:

http://www.google.com/

Vegans don't seem to read Bible, they love animals more than God.

God doesn't forbid us to eat animals...... They deny the truth and rather choose not to believe in God, Too sad.

Lynn summed it up.