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It seems that today our human
passion and outrage is reserved for environmental issues, not for issues
concerning animal farming or animal experimentation. Sad enough that the beautiful planet is being
damaged, and sad too that rapid species loss is taking place, but more
insidious is our deliberate and routine attack on animals. Here we see a mindless perversion of Nature by
enslaving harmless animals. And there’s
no end in sight.
No animal product is
essential, for any reason whatsoever. For sure, leather is strong and waterproof but
life’s not threatened without it. For sure,
cheese and eggs seem useful for making yummy products but they’re not difficult
to replace. Nothing from animals is so
essential that we’d have to compromise our principles to acquire their useful
products, and yet animal enslavement and creature-killing has become routine in
every human community on the planet. Humanity
is hooked on animal stuff. We can’t see past these animal products, to where
they could be replaced with plant-based equivalents. It’s the same as with kicking any bad habit, you
have to first want to kick it and then it’s down to the strength of the mind to
bring it about.
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