Plant-based diet

1946: We baby-boomers were the first generation to see a mass collapse of ethics. It was quite a shock for many parents of kids at this time. Certainly, for my mother and father, this coming crude, human-advantaged world wasn’t what they had hoped for when the war ended. They had plans for a golden future for their family, in a world which had surely learnt its lesson during the war. But it was never going to be that simple. That war, that bomb, that cage - each had to come into being to so revolt people that they’d have to find a better way. Specifically, there had to be another way to handle the food supply problem. But there was no awareness at that time, no one seemed concerned. Over the succeeding sixty years since the war ended, things have become decidedly worse and still most people aren’t concerned. 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. People still don’t realise that this simple solution 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 very important issues, on anything in fact, just so long as it doesn’t stray too near to our daily food and the question of animal slavery.
The latest fear is climate change. It makes us sit up and take notice. But it doesn’t do much more than that. We still believe in serendipity and again it seems we talk a lot about this big issue and solve our problems in conversation, but that’s never action. We probably won’t ever achieve as much as we could or should because we lack the necessary motivation and energy. We have high ideals but we almost know we won’t achieve them. We know that certain changes, if they were to take place, would inconvenience our own lifestyles and personal relationships. We know we’re still too selfish to act for the greater good.
And even if we aren’t selfish we’re reluctant to make changes when similar changes aren’t being made by everyone else. It’s a case of you first, me next!