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Edited by CJ Tointon
Take the pastoralist or the factory
farmer. They’re in a big-bucks business. They boost the country’s
economy and are rewarded for their efforts. By dint of their 'good works'
(feeding the masses) they are respected. They may be profiteering
pragmatists, but they provide. They fill the shops with 'goodies'. We
approve of them whenever we buy from
them.
By contrast, the Idealist is left out
in the cold. I have this image of a shivering Ideal, outside the frosty window,
trying to explain to the warm and comfortable people inside. “Idealism is
valid”. And no one can hear, since they take no notice. They don’t
believe in Ideal’s existence, let alone see anything worth discussing.
The idealist is given no encouragement. There’s little interest, and even
if there’s no hostility, there’s lots of indifference. And there may be
insults.
Vegan Activists - we’re not many yet
(and most people know it, and how they know it!!). With few
‘idealistic animal-advocates’ about, it’s open slather for insults. It’s
quite safe to say anything to us and get away with it. (It’s always safe to
insult a ‘peacenik’ because you know they won’t try to hit back!).
You can always tell a proud carnivore -
they reckon that if you think it, then you say it! About vegans like me,
it’s standard issue to call me a 'bleeding heart' or tell me I’m being
'self-righteous'. All obviously untrue, but that’s not the point. It’s
how it hits me (or even breaks me) that wins the point. Our adversaries
are on the look-out for any weakness. As a potential danger to their
peace of mind, we are enemy, and need to be neutralised. That’s when the
insults come, thick and fast. For me, it might seem hard to take.
But so what? It’s not exactly a mortal blow. Thankfully, it’s not a
capital crime to speak freely, which makes us merely 'insultable'. Big
deal. So, we get used to insults because we know we've got one great
advantage over almost everyone we know. Energy. (It comes with
the territory). So why begrudge another person their fun, if they want to
rubbish us? To be quite frank, there’s
bugger-all else for them to do. They don’t have too much energy at the
best of times. They don’t think for themselves and don’t often engage very
well. Don’t think I’m saying people are dim. They’re often very
bright. It’s not that they’re incapable of intellectually taking our
arguments to pieces, it’s just that they’re too compromised to even attempt
it. The bright, educated citizen is equally incapable as the poorest
brain - the compromise cripples them. And they’re in the same Catch 22
situation as almost every other human on the planet. They’re 'stuffed'
- in more ways than one.
Now many poor souls are starving to
death. And one great tragedy of the World concerns the inequality of food
distribution - but that’s another matter. Only to say, that if the
human is lucky enough to have any food to eat at all, then what they’re eating
is 'lead'! Call it what you like.
A lot of the food being eaten is full of dark energy and bearing the
weight of a heavy conscience. It’s like being in charge of an unruly
playground, where the children are screaming for more. The many popular foods are screamed for by
our unsophisticated taste buds and stomach. The shops are full of goodies
and we love them, so to be discussing the prospect of no longer using them,
arrrgh! To enjoy being vegan over the delights of enjoying our 'little
weaknesses', makes most people nervous. It also makes them giggle with
guilt.
Vegans would say there’s no need to
'do' guilt. But we’re the
idealists. And it’s tricky being idealistic, since we can’t go on to
explain why, because it looks like we’re big-noting ourselves.
But, without sounding smug, it all points to the fact that just by being
vegan, we automatically drop much of that black energy. We shed that
particular guilt which initially and then perpetually comes down to food. Hopefully, we choose chips (of inspiration)
with everything.
But there’s a necessary payment for all
this delicious energy. We’re talking altruistic gratitude here.
Appreciating what valuable things we get from the plants we eat. It’s a
clear sort of energy, light in weight (in the sense of no conscience-weight) and
not connected to the hard-nosed pragmatism of the carnivore.
This sort of energy comes about just
through eating 'vegan' food exclusively.
It is made up of various energies, like the energy used when you engage
with your dog, playing with it, testing its potential.
It’s impossible to engage these
energy-sources if you’re still playing cosy with the enslavers.
Vegans are lucky to have access to these energies, especially since they
coincide with our ideal, that of Animal Rights and Clean-Energy Food.
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