Thursday, July 15, 2010

The boycott

For presently-practising-omnivores there are powerful cords tugging at the taste buds, later tugging at the gut, later tugging at the conscience. The products omnivores won’t give up are the flesh and juice of animal’s bodies. Nobody needs reminding of the fact that omnivores use their money to support the people who extract this stuff, The Animal Industry. It, in turn, seeks out ways of hiding from its customers certain facts about animal life (down on the farm or down at the abattoir). They make the taste bud treats (and stomach fillers) and the customers show their appreciation by paying for them.
The Animal Industry shields the customer from ‘the consequences’ (of buying their products) and makes addictive enough to keep customer loyalty. Vegans, who’ve completely forgotten how addictive these products are, struggle to understand the gullibility of people who keep buying this stuff. But we can say nothing directly, otherwise everyone will think we’ve flipped. So, the trick is for vegans to find ways to say what we have to say but in a simple and non-judgemental way, to persuade people to join us in a boycott.

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