Passionate talking

Sunday 8th November

If vegan activists are in the business of talking about animals it all adds up to a great personal challenge, which can become, in itself, our main reason-to-be. The whole animal rights thing has to be one of the greatest challenges we can possibly face, whether we are struggling to change our eating habits or struggling to get the vegan message across. Unless we can deal with these struggles and find them meaningful we’ll never be able to discuss this subject with people who are still oblivious to it. The subject is broad, its implications touch every branch of life if only because the human condition is always darkened by our resorting to violence to solve our problems. There is hardly anything we do, involving others, that is not in some way improved by considering non-violence.If we try to make Animal Rights/Veganism just an ethics or health issue we will be selling it cheaply. It is all that, but so much more. It opens the inner human eye to another world in which we can find peace of mind. Vegans are, after all, developing a compassionate instinct which sends a sense of body-health and clarity-of-thinking shimmering through our very soul. But all in all, this subject gives us the chance to enjoy serious conversations which have nutritional, environmental and ethical implications, that are always more interesting than discussing the latest house prices