More escape

Escaping convention is contingent upon knowing more about vegan principle, as opposed to merely eating more vegan food. Being vegan lifts us out of the pit by taking us closer to a more natural, freer state of mind. It has other benefits too numerous to mention, but it isn’t only about slimming and health and food but about appreciating what we didn’t appreciate before. Namely the beauty of innocence. Namely the innocence of the most beautiful things we know, animals. (Sorry kids, you’re beautiful too but not as innocent as the creatures and especially, here in the West, not as oppressed).
In our own minds we aren’t innocent like animals because we’re always attending to selfish needs at the expense of others’ needs. Humans want so much more than other predators of the predator world. Our appetites, addictions and insatiabilities ruin us. Wealthy humans (read Westerners) are wanting-humans. The pain of ‘wanting what we don’t need’ brings us to a desperation point which brings us to searching for escape.
The will is there but the flesh is weak. We are frustrated by a few warped perceptions concerning right and wrong. All very confusing. If this confusion is the ‘pit’ we’re trapped in, that is taken full advantage of by vested interests. We are so enslaved (by them) that we’ve become subservient (to them) - “why bother, when things are so far out of my control”. The question for most people is surely whether one should put up with it or attempt to flee from it?
The pit is merely the state of mind which makes a Goliath out of what we see, and causes us to believe that ‘it’ is too big to do anything about.
As soon as you go vegan you start the upward climb out of the pit. It might be a long climb but the feeling of starting is exhilarating.
Inevitably conditions apply - it’s a matter of facing certain facts; facing habits connected to selfish ‘wantings’ and attempting to drop them. Especially the most insidious, connected with the animal-base.
Here at the heart of vegan principle is a revolutionary set of values, which look simple at first - just a diet (something to slim by). But then it takes on another dimension, more than just food. It broadens out into a non-violent approach to life ... and taken to its logical conclusion it becomes a “no-touch-animal” approach. It implies that humans are not to be trusted around animals, not the ‘food animals’ anyway. Like paedophiles near children animal-eaters shouldn’t be left near animals - “Beware of humans, they’ll eat your babies”.
Once things are seen from the animal’s point of view the whole subject lightens up. Then we can face up to our relationship with the ‘voiceless’, and move on towards a truly symbiotic, mutually-respecting relationship with them. How happy would that make you?