1387:
In our culture, when
specialists tell us to eat foods derived from animals, we listen and take note
of what they say. We want to believe them, especially if our
favourite, yummy foods are made with animal ingredients. Just think of the wide range of delicious,
tempting, animal-based food products there are in shops.
The advice we are all given
is that meat and dairy make us strong. Everyone’s
happy to accept this, especially if they have no particular nutritional
education. From there it’s just a small
step to accepting that it’s okay to kill animals, since it has to be done for
our own survival, health, strength, etc.
Those who have seriously
addressed the science of nutrition and by-passed the Industry propaganda, know
that plant-based foods are healthy and animal-based foods far less so – the
debate over this will go on for ever, and be confusing to everyone with an
interest in either camp - omnivores will go one way, vegans the other. But vegan principle
is something else. It addresses ethics. It condemns both slavery and killing. There's no confusion here, that there's great
cruelty in all animal farming; lots of slavery and killing. Those of us who advocate for the rights of
animals might well be a thorn in the side of almost every animal-eater. We tell people who really don't want to know,
what’s happening. And there’s no one
denying the truth of what we are saying, because if we were lying we'd be
publically outed, and this never seems to happen.
All the authorities can do is
spread malicious inexactitudes - they warn people that vegans want to subvert
Society. But they don’t exactly put it
that way. If they did they’d draw
attention to an issue that they’d rather people ignored. They simply advise people, for their own good
and safety, to disbelieve what we say. There's
no need for them to back up their accusation, because they know it will go down
surprisingly well, since it fits very nicely into what people want to
believe.
No comments:
Post a Comment