Escaping the ‘violence-pit’

1770: 

Our world is littered with murdered animals chopped up and divided into small portions for humans to buy and eat. From the ease with which we seem to be able to kill and consume them it isn’t surprising that we’ve turned ourselves into a violent, selfish and cold hearted species.                                                                                                                       

This is the society we’ve all been born into and brought up with. Only when we become independent adults can most of us decide whether to conform to our society’s values or start out on our own with our own quite different values. If we decide to disassociate our values with those of our society, we might find that we’ve jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. For, by escaping, we may end up in the ‘fringes’, lonely.

If we’re sure our own motives are sincere, we’ll inevitably attempt to convince others to do as we’ve done. In our case, we are fighting on behalf of a voiceless species, who can do nothing for themselves about the humans who enslave them. This is why some of us must try to act on their behalf, to defend them from attack, even though we are up against the greatest and most entrenched juggernaut history has ever know – the Animal Industry.

Today, it’s already happening. Vegans are fighting back, preserving our own strengths while helping to liberate farmed animals. But our personal inner strengths are sometimes at odds with our determinations. One’s need for support to help with this difficult aim can easily overshadow the main goal of working for animals’ liberation. Which is why our energy might become drained and consequently why we become disheartened by our lack of progress.

There is all the more reason to remind ourselves of the importance of what we are doing, the scale of the task ahead and the urgent need to get MANY people on side. So, we must appeal to consumers. They, not the farmers or the animal executioners, have to be our main target and future support. If consumers come across (and then act together with us, essentially by ‘going vegan’) we can dismantle the animal imprisonment system. The abattoirs will go out of business and together we will have brought down the whole of the Animal Industry.

This industry, with the cooperation of the billions of consumers, have in their custody billions of animals. They are locked in concrete and steel tombs, awaiting execution. The freeing of them means the freeing of ourselves. It's the start to end the violence, so widely practised in human life on this planet.