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We all live in a global village now, having family-like
associations with fellow humans, wherever they are, and with other beings too.
This is the age of relationship-awareness. It comes about through increased
empathy.
We now have easy access to
information. We can social-network, to find out how others are thinking. We are
taking on big issues. We’re upping our empathy for non-human species, for
environment and for victims of social injustice. There’s a heightening of
sensitivity and, in accordance, a changing of lifestyle habits.
In every way, what we’re seeing
today is a heightening of empathy and sensitivity. By being vegan, thinking
vegan and supporting things outside our anthropocentric interest zone, it’s
good for the soul; in other words, it’s a good feeling being empathetic. It’s
what a parent can feel when protecting a child who is weak or inexperienced.
In this Western world there is
none weaker than domesticated animals. Billions of them are standing there
right now, on hard concrete floors or in wire mesh cages, instead of freely roaming
across the earth and forest floor. And billions more, fish, no longer swimming
free. Humans have manipulated the free-ranging of animals on a massive scale, and
degraded the land and oceans beyond recovery. The social injustice of that is
mind boggling. That’s why Animal Rights is such a great cause to be involved
with.
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