Sanctuary

Monday 10th May 2010

In the long term, collectively, there’s another stumbling block, practical considerations concerning the provenance of our food, namely the animals from which it comes. These are the animals on our farms especially. What of them? What, if we were vegan, would become of them? Do we retire all the millions of them? It would be costly even if the decline in meat eating were gradual and animals were purposely not bred into existence, nevertheless there would be a need for retiring those which still survived. We’d need special funding and perhaps a special tax imposed to pay for it all. And in these economically and ecologically straightened times would we want that?
But then, just think. Imagine all the advantages of a meatless society. Apart from ending the violence of mass killing of animals, the advantages to our health would become dramatically obvious. Plant-based diets would herald a peaceful world. As ‘refusniks’ who don’t any longer eat meat, no longer do we ‘do’ war either. As with so many of us even today, the very idea of violence is totally ridiculous.
That’s the breakthrough al through history humans have been waiting for.