Silence

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It’s only the quiet I can hear.  There's a conspiracy of silence surrounding the worst goings-on concerning animal exploitation, and it is so profound that the most outrageous stories go unheard.  People are ‘protected’ from knowing about animals being routinely attacked because the Animal Industries must always seem respectable.  On one level everyone knows about the cruelty inflicted on animals on a massive scale.  It happens everyday and everywhere.  But there's only silence because this is the ONE thing the gutless media will not report on.  They reveal bits and pieces but never enough to properly inform, certainly nothing to inflame ordinary people.  This is all about mutual-support - the public keeps the Media and the Animal Industry financed, their dollars being vital to keep the whole rotten show going.

         

The general public is given the impression that nothing bad is actually happening.  It might seem incredible that educated and otherwise well informed people believe it, but there’s so much conflicting information it’s hard to sort out what is true and what not.  Which is why most well-meaning people give up trying (or they don’t try very hard!) and revert to habit.  I suspect it’s the ordinary people, informed or otherwise, who’ll be most outraged when they eventually learn what’s really going on.  Once they realise they’ve been ‘protected from information’, they will almost certainly bring pressure for the authorities to reveal the scale of animal cruelty, and have it reported.  A scandal could stimulate an enquiry, which could take on a momentum all its own, showing a cover- up which, once rolling, would give the media something to get its teeth into.  They’ll see the possibilities in the story outweigh the pressure put on them to remain silent by the Animal Industry lobby.

Although animal cruelty might constitute the scandal, it’s more likely that the cover up itself could be the bigger story.  It might start out with uncovering the disastrous health consequences of animal food and, with the added cruelty factor, it could prove too much to sweep under the carpet.  Out of this could come a widespread determination to clean up the mess, once and for all.  It’s the cover-up that will outrage people who’ve been kept in the dark over the sorts of places the animals (they eat) come from.  This is the sort of cover-up that no one would want to pass on to future generations.

For our kids to be ‘information protected’ might be bad enough but the cost of producing ever-scarcer food to feed animals, and then only for these animals to be eaten, would infuriate most thinking people.  It would be seen as such an obvious waste of our resources.

         

The way that the Animal Industries have spoiled the quality of the lives of people for the sake of making profits is almost as cynical as the horror of animal cruelty itself.  But out of this is the trigger for a whole generation of people to take a much closer, dispassionate look at human nature, and to realise that the human isn't to be trusted around animals.  Once we accept this, then it's only a matter of time before the Animal Industry goes bust.

At this time it would be to everyone’s advantage if there were vegans ‘available’ with some useful information to help with the transition to plant-based food and clothing – imagine how foolish we’d look if we were, at this point, still angry, frustrated, aggressive and generally critical.  How, instead of feeling angry at people’s behaviour now, vegans could look ahead, to be in the best position to be useful, and to alert people.  Inform them, answer their questions and provide practical assistance.

Especially for the sake of the animals, present day vegans might want it all to happen now, but in reality it will almost certainly come to a head later, because so many things have to happen before our brave and talented journalist is found, who would write the story.  We can’t hurry the process too much just as we can’t go up to people and shake them, much as we’d like to.  So, how do we set the approach roads, so that those who are interested will feel safe, and those who are hostile are kept calm?  How do we help people understand what’s happening?

Overall, it's likely that if we seem helpful we’ll be listened to.  If we appear angry we’ll turn people away.