Non-vegans falling back

If we don’t steer clear of animal products we must disqualify ourselves as true peacemakers. By this one daily action of shopping for and eating of animals, we encourage the assault on them. We waste our best chance for future happiness, whether for us-personally or us-collectively … and, in doing that, we waste that same chance for animals too. We are their only hope and if we aren’t willing to defend them they are lost. By supporting violence, and indeed taking part in it on a daily basis by buying slaughterhouse products, we become part of the slaughterhouse process.
The seemingly benign egg comes to represent the worst violence.
Here’s what happens. I buy a packet of biscuits the ingredients of which include egg, that is egg from caged hens. As a biscuit eater I don’t want to know about egg-laying hens and their circumstances. I just want my biscuits. But whether I know the ingredients’ backgrounds or not, the fact is my biscuit contains something that can’t be justified, eggs, which come from the battery system. Biscuit makers don’t go around looking for ethical raw materials.
Who approves of this system? Probably none of us would do but we still buy egg-containing products, all the same. In doing so we compromise what otherwise makes us good people. It seems pathetic to be seduced by a biscuit.
If we want to feel good about ourselves there is no system of guilt-trading to make us feel any better – all we can do is stop doing it.