There's Hope, But Not Quite Yet

1912:

Vegans are trying to inform people whilst taking care of themselves at the same time. Vegans are, by their small numbers, isolated and as individuals we often feel very alone. Compensation for this comes from having an inner clarity about many questionable aspects of human life.

Just because we feel alone yet inspired, we can’t expect others to want the plus and the minus of that themselves. People are afraid of what we want them to think about, especially how truth is being manipulated. The Animal Industries are pushing one way, and we are pushing the other. They encourage less thinking and more spending, and we encourage people to find out about animal exploitation. Not surprisingly they are winning, since they’ve been building their networks for many decades and indeed for hundreds of years. They’ve cornered the market, which means they’ve addicted most people to the things they want to sell them. Vegans are attempting to persuade people not to believe the spiel from vested interests but to become better informed, and rise up (by boycott) against the general world of crap commodities, food or otherwise. But few of us are willing to take the lead.

         

Using unscrupulous methods, the Animal Industries get what they want because they know the customers are united in favour of their products. They know the consumer is hooked on a wide variety of animal products, which are bought over and over again. But as new information comes to light, we’ll come to realise why so many people are becoming so chronically unwell. On a physical level animal foods are a slow poison, and on a spiritual level they gnaw at our conscience. It is happening all the while the consumer avoids learning about the way animal foods come to us, and the consumer’s part played in condoning animal cruelty.

         

Vegetarian foods and diets are already being tried and as the unethical dimensions of lacto-ovo-vegetarianism become more obvious, alongside health rationales, more people will step towards veganism, and wash their hands of the whole nasty business of using-animals.