Consistent ethics

Most people think they have to be experts to be effective but not much knowledge is needed to know that the animal business is “wrong”. Assurance for this conclusion comes from intuition and inborn values. A familiar comment from new vegans is: “Why didn’t I see it before?” As soon as we tap into a more instinctive intelligence, we go for ‘the greater good’. And here even so called ‘enlightened beings’ aren’t necessarily more useful than the unenlightened in terms of optimism and faith. Our own ‘spiritual development’, our own ‘getting of wisdom’ should not be put on the backburner. The experts and the holy people are at no advantage here if they have lost touch with the significance of such mundane things as buying and eating foods associated with animals.
By being exemplary in one field but useless in another, we lose credibility. It’s the same problem we have in any personal advancement whether it’s career, lifestyle or spirituality. We don’t realise how important it is to make an impact on certain deep issues of the day. Further, we don’t know how to do it. By neglecting vital subjects we have too much incompleteness in our life and we can easily slip into double standards. We might wish it were otherwise.
In the end, if we can’t muster sufficient personal power to change even when we want to change (or we’re without enough personal authority to act) we won’t be able to expose and change the corrupted system we live in.