250 Capital Crimes

2059:

At some point in a discussion we need to establish the scale of the crime we’re talking about. Once the ‘crime-status’ is established there’s no need to go back over it again and again. Our main job is to establish why we think it’s a crime, that’s all. The main difference between an omnivore and a vegan is in the evaluation of the situation.

First, before discussing if it IS a crime, we have to settle the fact that that people in general are not idiots. We must credit them with enough raw intelligence to understand what we’re saying to them. And no, they mightn’t react the way we want, but they may take it in. If we use something like a shock fact, the ‘250-animals-we-each-eat-every-year’, the impact is powerful. It arrests people in their thinking, because it’s a surprisingly large number of animal executions to be responsible for (amounting to 25,000 deaths if one gets to be a hundred years old!!).

Once the scale of this ‘crime’ is established, we’ve effectively laid our cards on the table. And then, at least, we can have a sensible discussion (hopefully without heavy value judgement). Our emphasis should be on how people have been bamboozled by The Animal Industry, and how otherwise-beautiful people have been drawn into an ugly world where every year, 250 deaths are carried out on our behalf.