its all about karma. think about it, if you watch someone getting hurt and laugh, that's bad karma for you because you're disconnecting from the empathy that connects you to life itself. if you're enjoying the suffering of a living, conscious creature do you really think you will escape the karmatic reprocussions? the karma impact will lower your consciouness and distance your mind from your intuition this will lead to bad decisions on your part from the inability to connect to your inner wisdom & intuition. you will need that when buying bitcoin when dealing with stocks or making important decisions in your life. Not to mention the numerous health and environmental benefits of being vegan, your karma will become positive. its not pseudoscience and its not superstition, its simple logic, you reap what you sow, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. the reaction of eating once living animals isignorance and lowered awareness.