Attack

Monday 12th April 2010

Once we can see the part we play in all this and want to do something about it, we’re on the move. But often we decide to pull back by only going half way – eaters of red meat switch to eating chicken and fish, the vegetarians stop at another point, neither gets close enough to the problem to be an effective advocate for the animals. Vegans can be effective advocates of “Animal Rights” but some of us also stop at a certain but different point. First we react full strength and feel mighty proud of it (as we should, it being a great achievement) but then, when no one notices us or everyone makes fun of us, we might try to show off, by telling everyone what we’ve done and what they should also do. We become angry animal advocates, frustrated because no one’s listening … and still nothing really changes. Nothing can change if we deal with ‘animal-attack’ by another sort of attack. What does change is that now we look pretty stupid for thinking this approach could ever work.