If we aren’t ready to move on, towards eating vegan food, then as semi-vegetarians we lump ourselves in with the meat heads. If we use animals we can’t condemn their use. Non-vegans may not like eating meat but because they eat the by-product of animals, they condone the same level of cruelty and still have to belong to the Quiet Club. What can they say? “Yes, I eat ‘it’ but it’s wrong”. We literally have to put our money where our mouth is and buy cruelty-free all the time, or remain voiceless.
Without playing a role in their liberation and being part of a world-wide awakening consciousness, there’s not much meaning left to us, because we’re still part of the system. We’re unable to condemn it so we have to look for ways to divert ourselves … and we usually go for general entertainment and self-satisfying activities.
This could be seen as blocking one main path to satisfaction. By denying ourselves a certain quality of satisfaction we take away the meaning in our lives, If we do miss out on the satisfaction that comes from advocating for animals, we are forced to retreat into the fun world, a poor substitute for the real thing. For each day to be full of meaning, passion and goal oriented activity (in whatever form it takes) brings satisfaction - that whatever we are doing is bringing quality into our life, a feeling at the end of the day that we couldn’t have done anything better. I suspect vegans know about this feeling.
Everyone else is in Seconds World .
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