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Animal guardians (vegans) are persistent, because we’re in
it for life. But also because we keep asking the same unanswerable question:
“How can such terrible things be done to animals, and people not react?” As our
incredulity grows into outrage and then on into anger we can feel a sort of
power flowing through us. But sadly, there’s nowhere for it to go. It’s like
lightening that doesn’t make contact with the ground. It doesn’t connect. For
all our outrage, protesting and arguing, we notice nothing positive happens.
The crazy, cruel things just keep on happening.
Humans know no other way of
living that doesn’t include attacking animals. Most people are dependent on
abattoir products. Regrettably, we animal activists have to get used to this.
Animals are used because it’s easy to use them. And as for the caging and
killing of them, there will always be someone to do the job for us. It’s likely
the people employed to do the nastiest jobs at abattoirs will be those who can
find no other employment. They know they’ll be paid and will be protected by the
fact that what they do doesn’t break any law.
This awful reality stands as a
brick wall to any progress on granting animals rights (to be protected).
Animals’ bodies and their secretions seem to be regarded as ‘for the taking’,
like pears from a pear tree or minerals from the ground. If it can be taken,
humans will take it. That’s one characteristic attitude amongst humans that
does us no credit. With all that we now know about human behaviour and disregarding
the danger of it, vegans are not so much angry as incredulous.
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