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Protest. Outrage. “No longer!” we say. But, in reality, even if we feel outraged, we
don’t think we’d have enough willpower to alter our eating habits radically. According to principle. Nothing will be powerful enough to convince us
to stop. Neither ill health, guilt,
conscience or environmental impact of animal farming.
If it reaches critical mass, the worry of it making us make
the decision to ‘go-vegan’, we know that it will mean having to turn our back
on everyone and everything. Later, after
it’s all over, we’ve done it and settled it, only then do we find out it was
the best thing we could have done for ourselves.
By withdrawing our support from the Animal Industries and
freeing ourselves from the addictive grip of their products, we fix the ache that’s
been in us. Plus we add another nail in
the coffin of the Animal Industry and in so doing help to liberate the gulag-ed
animals.
But this habit switching is no light matter. If we give up eating meat one day, then it
follows next day that we’ll be questioning the whole ethical basis of animal
farming and the laws of conventional nutrition. So what might have started out as a change of
diet, now opens up a whole new world of thinking, a whole significant change of
attitude.
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