A Serious Shortage of Argument - 2

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From birth, we’ve all been accustomed to these consumer items. It’s what is readily available.

Making use of animals is easier, that’s all.  It’s convenient, it makes money for the 'Animal Industries', but there’s no common sense to it.  The predominance of animal-based foods in our diet is the cause of much disease and ill health, as evidenced when walking into any one of our hospitals and seeing both patients and their visitors looking so entirely unhealthy.  But perhaps worst of all, the exploiting of animals contradicts our potential guardian nature.

If you believe in climate change or environmental sustainability or God or motor cars, there’s always a counter argument.  There will always be those who can put up a cogent argument opposing these 'beliefs'.  But vegan principle is out there on its own - it’s different. It’s an ideal, a workable precept.  There seems to be no intelligent opposing argument, or at least I’ve never heard of any.  That is, unless we talk to Ahnah, an Inuit from Kangirsuk, who lives on foods that are mainly fished or hunted, there being no land to cultivate fruits and vegetables.  She’s not unhealthy, but then she’s not subjecting herself to the poisoned body parts of highly medicated and artificially-fed captive animals!!  Or we could talk with John from outback Hamilton, who can only find work on a cattle station.  Or we could talk to refugee Hussein, who has only been able to find work at the Narrogin abattoir.  They have probably never heard of 'veganism', but their options are limited anyway.  They, and many like them, would find it very difficult to be vegan.  But not so for most of us.  We have choices, especially if we are urban consumers.  We have plant-based foods available and, although limited, we also have a range of non animal-based clothing and footwear.

Ed:CJ