animal material

It seems that today our human passion and outrage is reserved for environmental issues not for issues concerning animal farming or animal experimentation. Sad enough that the beautiful planet is being damaged, and sad too that rapid species loss is taking place, but more insidious is our deliberate attack on animals. Here we see a mindless perverting of Nature with no end in sight. And for what? No animal product is essential, for any reason whatsoever. Sure, leather is strong and waterproof but life’s not threatened without it. Sure, cheese and eggs seem useful for making yummy products but they’re not difficult to replace. Nothing from animals is so essential that we’d have to compromise our principles to get useful things, and yet creature-killing has become routine in every human community on the planet. Humanity is hooked on animal stuff. We can’t see past these animal products, to where they could be replaced with plant-based equivalents. As with the kicking of any bad habit, it’s all in the mind. The big surprise is how easy it all is to kick.