Monday, April 8, 2013

685: Self preservation


Most people are unwilling to step so boldly away from convention by taking up a vegan lifestyle, especially because it means giving up their favourite foods. At best, they are afraid of living for the rest of their lives on, and perhaps suffering from the ‘deficiency’ of, a plant-based diet. At worst, they are ignoring animal cruelty in the food industry and therefore in ‘atrocity-denial’, and playing dangerous mind games with themselves.
Maybe they do realize the truth of what we are saying but just try their best to ignore us. They may be afraid that if a break-through were made in the public’s acceptance of Animal Rights, that it would spell the end of animal farming. That would mean no more meat and none of the thousands of animal-based commodities widely available today. In foreseeing this, people are inclined to vigorously defend their lifestyle and do whatever is necessary to guarantee supplies of their favourite foods. More importantly, they’ll resist everything we are saying about ‘atrocity’, which is probably why people pre-emptively shy away from discussing anything to do with animals that are used for food.

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