Plant-based diet

This crude, human-advantaged world wasn’t what my mother and father wanted when the war ended. They saw a golden future for their family in a world which had surely learnt its lesson. But it was never going to be that simple. That war, that bomb, that cage - each had to come into being to so revolt us that we’d have to find a better way. Specifically, there had to be another way to handle the food supply problem. But that lesson still isn’t learned, in fact over the succeeding sixty years since the war ended, things have become decidedly worse. One has to ask why we haven’t found a creative way to supply food without causing chaos and misery to so many sentient beings? Perhaps it’s because we refuse to look at the most obvious answer which has always been staring us in the face - a plant-based diet which solves most health problems and ethical problems in one hit. But most people say they aren’t ready for that! And you can see why. Peoples’ attention has been powerfully redirected elsewhere. Towards other matters. We are focused on anything but animal slavery.
The latest fear is climate change. It makes us sit up and take notice. But not much more. We still believe in serendipity and again it seems we talk a lot and toy with our problems. But we will probably never do as much as we could because we lack motivation and energy. We almost know we won’t get it together because it will inconvenience our own lifestyles and personal relationships and threaten our habits. We almost know we are still too selfishly motivated to act for the greater good. We’re especially reluctant to make changes in our own lives when similar changes aren’t being made by everyone else. You first, me next!