Opening our mouths is not yet a crime

The major issues in our world are being trivialised or ignored completely. The issue of animal exploitation is a prime example. We are pressed, as if idiots, to see a benign picture of happy farm animals living in pretty farm yards. We’re soothed by TV chefs doing animal cuisine shows. We’re beguiled by the way supermarkets care for quality. And all the while we know it’s phoney, and one hell of a calculated misleading of the public.
Once we get past this and become vegan, it’s as if we then have to take on the whole world. And that’s too much for anyone so, we need to be practical. Yes, we might want to right the wrong, but actually doing it is tricky. Veganism is hard enough just on a personal level or in terms of surviving within our own community, but to knock away the cornerstone of our society, by questioning the efficacy of its foods and the integrity of our food producers, that’s a bold step to take. And if there is any headway made, towards too many people recognising animal rights, the influential people won’t be happy.
In Australia it might not yet be a crime to ‘disparage food’, but in certain parts of America, disparaging certain foods in public is a crime. And that’s because people with influence want to prevent any profit-destroying truth getting out. If it all became public knowledge, the meat trade could go into meltdown. Not only would it be damaging to the allied industries but the ripple effect could bring the whole economy down.