Hi hillabee,
I understand the issue of vegitarianism in relation to homeopathy because it is an issue for me. The original substance being the problem. The goose who was sacrificed to make Oscillococcinum, for instance, can be justified by some by saying that one goose could make maybe thousands of remedies? For me, it is still a big problem, so I choose to use remedies not derived from an animal that has been killed in order to make the remedy, if at all avoidable. For the same reason, I choose to never again use anti-biotics or other conventional drugs. If an ethical vegitarian, as opposed to dietary vegitarian, that is an even bigger issue because if one reads the package inserts it becomes quite obvious how many lab animals suffer and die in the testing process of almost all allopathic medicines on the market. Knowing conventional medicine was not only inadequate but produced by such terribly cruel methods was one of the factors in turning to homeopathy.