I am raw vegan and live in russia and it even saves my money, because i eat a lot less than before. I've always thought it to be meaningless to kill these innocent fuckers for food because their meat is not even eatable without special processing like boiling, frying etc. and after that salting it, using some flavoring, sauses and other flavor enchancers. So it's unnatural for man to eat animals, because juicy red meat is fucking horrible, you won't even be able to bite a peace of it. But think how hard that is to do all of it and how much time it consumes instead of just going to a tree, taking a fruit and eating it. Ready, so nature created this food specially for us, it's eatable right at the starting point, and no deception of taste for yourself. Health improves to just unprecedented point, i'm not even going to start to list all of the pluses of such diet. It's all about just a taste addiction that you will have to fight if you want to start this way, that's why most people hate vegans, if it's not just pure hate to animals of course). They have done something that seems right mostly to anybody, but people understand that they don't want to change themselves, because it's a hard work to do and there are some excuses of scientific researches and so on that is completely bullshit, bcs it rejects the logic of nature.
But i am more neutral to animals than positive, because i don't find them really loving. Most of them are just ignorant or smth, but those who can love like my previous cat i adore. But even ignorance is better than judgement, in which most people are into, i feel uncomfortable amongst most of them, so animals>people. But again, if an apocalypse and no options for fruits and vegetables - kill, boil and eat :)