Thursday, March 10, 2011

Adultery with animals - a bad ‘do’

If people don’t take this seemingly obvious, if radical, step (adopting vegan principles into their life) they’ll fall far short of doing anything very meaningful or satisfying.
Logically we can’t get anywhere till we atone for our little crime against animals. This one thing never goes away. It kills us just by being in our face … (I hope I’m not getting too heavy here) … because of course it’s in so much of what we do to animals, every day, at every meal (the worst of it done by proxy), where our ‘Animal adultery’ compromises all the good stuff we do. And yet we can’t even come to know this because we can’t allow ourselves to believe it.
This conundrum, this mixture of guilt and impotence, means omnivores can’t achieve happiness because it’s always going to be connected with what one is doing ... and there’s good ‘do’ and bad ‘do’ ... and too much of the bad ‘do’ gives us pleasure at the same time as doing all the serious damage too.

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