You say you want an end to the war in Iraq, but did you support the march to war, like most of your Jewish compatriots? Do you oppose all wars, even wars of defense? If we take your no-killing-any-time philosophy to its natural conclusion, then the allies wouldn't be justified in firebombing Dresden to bring the Holocaust to an end.

What I hate most about vegans is their fake morality. I don't see any vegans calling for humans to reduce procreation so that we can lessen the impact on mother earth. Would the earth be better off if all humans converted to vegetarianism? Not if more virgin forests had to be cut down to grow more crops to make up for the dense calories that meat provides. BTW, factory farming of animals is a Western phenomenon that is not practiced by most of the world.