the toxic human

Vegan principles make a start to unlocking the violence humans have done to animals, but more so, veganism shows the utter waste of energy in producing food from animals. Once the plant-based food regime is up and running in our life, it then becomes clear that, in the past, we’ve been poisoning ourselves. The full extent of the toxicity of animal food is only now coming to light, in terms of its effect on peoples’ health. Epidemiological studies show that ill health is closely linked to the diets of whole populations, showing the links between a high intake of animal protein and the high incidence of deadly disease. But still there is silence on the dangers of using animal foods, not to mention the silence about the demise of our ethics in general!
We’re led to see ethics as a rather threadbare garment unlikely to keep us warm enough, so we’ve substituted ethics with other moral codes that allow us to do whatever we want, to animals. This is sad enough, but it has somewhat put us to sleep. We’ve lost our sense of outrage. We allow ourselves to comply. We no longer fight to protect the innocent. And this is why Animal Rights is so urgent. The protection of animals from us is essential. We humans can no more be trusted with animals than paedophiles with kids. And yet it seems we still care little about this subject or about the ethics of non-violence. As we continue to drive animals insane for our own advantage, our only fear is that we become marginalised by our membership of a vegan world.