Reconcilliation

Playing the “blame game” is popular with some vegans. There’s none better at it. Animal industries and consumers in general make for an easy target, so why not give them some curry? It helps to release the anger and frustration we feel. But, constructively speaking, there isn’t much to be gained from apportioning blame. What’s done is done and can’t be undone. In any apartheid situation there’s a need to move on, towards reconciliation. It’s been successful in many political situations. It shows a deliberate moving away from the idea of revenge. This is where true compassion shows through and how the example of it can be ‘catching’. In many human situations it has caught the imagination of people and had a dramatic shifting effect on them. Here, the apartheid isn’t the human to human type but a species apartheid. The Animal Rights movement can learn a lot from the conduct of some of our predecessors. Like Desmond Tutu.