It's widely reported the Dalai Lama eats meat and dairy as do many Tibetan Rinpoche's in a profound hypocrisy and violation of five of the eightfold paths to enlightenment. Most unfortunately, a person in this position must also assume the karma of the consequences these failures will produce in others who follow their auspicious leadership. I've been doing the liberation pledge since long before I knew about the liberation pledge, only because it causes me great stress and discomfort to witness the composure and indifference of those ordering and consuming the results of extreme violence against the most vulnerable members of Gaia's community while I attempt to relax. Meals are meant to be a time of peace. I have plenty of other forums for conversations that don't risk my consumption of death products, finance businesses who murder, and require me to suppress my revulsion to gross exploitation while trying to digest questionable food which is likely not vegan to begin with. Typically the choice not to patronize these businesses begins with me imagining the ghosts of victims watching me make the decision to cross the threshold to where the crimes that lead to their deaths are celebrated or casually ignored. I hear them cheering in my mind when I refuse to enter. It's the very least I can do. I'm glad you are receptive. As a buddhist and a vegan it pains me to know that human supremacy is not prohibitive of both practices but I choose to dispense with this cognitive fallacy anyway, because it resonates with both modern ethology and my own sensitivity to other living persons, humans or otherwise. If only we could all treat animal slaves as victims of genocide as respectfully as we invoke the plight of human refugees and never use one bad condition to excuse another, the world would more quickly move towards healing from the ravages of industrial capitalist militant exploitation civilizations.