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Being a vegan isn’t a belief as much as a
‘compassion-philosophy’ that makes us think twice about eating murdered
animals. People don’t ‘convert’ to
‘veganism’ as much as they decide not to do a certain thing any longer – in
this case, to eat or wear animal-based products. One denies oneself the pleasure or convenience
in order to deny giving the exploiters our business. It needn’t be anything much more than that -
this we use: this we do not use.
It’s simple enough, the boycotting. It means that we decide to simply deny our self
something, as a gesture of support for exploited animals. You might, in the same way, deny yourself a
car because it pollutes. You might
decide not to benefit from free labour by no longer owning a slave. There’s nothing about this that constitutes a
‘belief’. It’s just a decision to no longer give in to temptation. It might just as well be one’s refusal to take
a shot of heroine, based on one’s wish to avoid addiction. For why would one become dependent upon
something which is both unnecessary and personally harming?
Veganism is no more a belief than is the sense in taking a
diversion around a minefield. As soon as
one realises the sense in being not-too-close to danger, it might seem like not
wanting to be complicit in supporting something which before seemed
inconsequential. When it becomes
obviously NOT inconsequential, then one takes evasive action. If you don’t, you become consciously complicit
and have to adopt the attitude of ‘the Devil take the hindmost’. A desperate decision!
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