The "psychology" of vegetarians not going full vegan. 🙄
That was an empty bunch of nonsense about vegans being so much more educated about their food choices, and vegetarians having persistent habits and "mental blocks" against going vegan. (And despite their insistence to the contrary, it's the vegans who have cognitive dissonance regarding ethics and health implications of the vegan lifestyle)
Psychology has nothing at all to do with the fact that vegetable matter is missing vital nutrients (particularly B-12), something that is only available from animal products.
Perhaps it's because vegetarians are better educated about dairy products, eggs, and honey.
Perhaps vegetarians understand that the use of responsibly sourced dairy products does not harm any animal. You simply wait until after the calf has had it's fill of the mother cow's milk, then milk off the excess. The more milk you take, the more milk the cow will produce. If it were not so, there's no way the mother cow's milk production could keep up with a growing calf's needs. If it were not so, there's no way the cow's milk would be able to keep up with the needs of twin calves.
This is the very principle by which wet-nurses were historically able to provide milk for babies whose mothers were unable to breastfeed or had died. Today, it's a method that many women who have breastfed a baby understand - after the baby is fed, they can pump off extra milk to build up their supply and production so that they can return to work.
Perhaps vegetarians understand that the vast majority of eggs available are not fertilized, because an egg can only be fertilized in the oviduct of the hen, so if the hen has never even seen a rooster, much less mated with one, her eggs can not be fertilized - and therefore no matter how long those eggs are incubated, they will never produce a chick. And yet, the hen will continue to produce an average of one egg per day - because that's what hens do.
We can compare this process to a woman's monthly cycle: she releases one egg monthly, but if that egg is not fertilized, it will never produce a baby. [This is not in any way a political statement, it's purely biological fact]
Perhaps vegetarians understand that honey bees produce far more honey than they can ever use, and are far more protected in a human controlled hive than if they build their hive in a hollow tree, where sweet-seeking animals (bears) can invade and feast on their honey, as well as eating the bees and their larvae, utterly destroying a hive.
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Bears do love honey and are attracted to beehives. But unlike in Winnie the Pooh, the bears eat more than just honey. They will also consume the bees and larvae inside the beehive, which are a good source of protein.
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How do bears eat honey without getting stung? You would think that a colony's guard bees would be able to scare a bear away with their stings, but the bears' fur coats are so thick that the bees' stingers can not really penetrate well enough to get to a bear's skin
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Me thinks it's the vegans who need to seek better education and realize how silly their adamant refusal to use any animal products at all really is.