A response to "I don't care about animal byproducts like bone char sugar etc. because animals don't get raised or killed for that."

There are people who consider themselves to be vegans or animal rights advocates who will often make the argument that animals are only killed for meat, milk, and eggs, and not other animal byproducts like bone char sugar so we shouldn't worry about it. But the problem is that because these processes have been in place for many decades now and these industries have come to rely on them, they are killed for all of these other byproducts too.

Animals aren't just killed for meat anymore, and haven't been for many decades. They are killed for bone char, gelatin, manure, leather, and every other animal by product. This is because the industries that have come to rely on these byproducts have built their processes around them. So if the animal slaughter were to stop, these industries would have to halt production as they figure out different ways of doing things. The sugar industry relies on bone char sugar to process the sugar. They would have relationships with slaughterhouses to get the bones, invoices and payments to exchange them, and truck routes established to pick them up or have them delivered.

There are vegan sources of sugar so other processes exist but the mainstream sugar industry would have to take time to switch over first. If meat were to disappear tomorrow, animal slaughter would still happen because these other industries have come to rely on these animal byproducts. The sugar industry couldn't function and would have to install different ways of processing their sugar, teach new employees the new ways, end contracts, source different products, and so on and so forth. So every time you buy something that has bone char sugar in it, you are directly contributing to animal agriculture, because animals are killed for so much more than just their meat these days. Farmed animals are raised for and killed for all of their parts, not just the meat or milk.

What switching from products that use bone char to products that don't does is show the sugar industry that there is demand for the different ways to process sugar. That itself is worth it, so that cow bones are no longer used and they can slowly switch to the other processes.