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Roikins 
Death, no question. I'm vegetarian most weekdays, actually. I tend to stick to a simple vegetable soup or salad for lunch and dinner M-Th, but that's so I can go meat and foie crazy on the weekends, and on the off weekday when I get bored. Can vegans take medication that was developed through animal testing or chicken egg derived vaccines? If not, the world may be better off from their death from illness.
I am actually involved in animal research, yet I am vegan. This seems like a major inconsistency, but in a way, it's not. See, to eat animals is totally unnecessary whereas to research biology animal experiments are the only way to go. There's simply no way around it, though we often can and do culture animal cells in vitro to avoid the difficulty of working with the live animal. You have to understand that working with animals is a big pain in the a$$. But there's still a question of whether the research is necessary. Most scientists think so: research is for the greater good like you said. It's all about intention. My $ 0.02. As a side note, some researchers are more careful about animals' feelings than others, but I can say I always do my best even though I only research fruit flies. For example, before dumping them into the "fly morgue" (soapy ethanol), I always knock them out on CO_2.
