Spending time with omnivores

Thursday 21st May 2010

If we can spend time regularly with people who not only disagree with us but adamantly oppose the whole concept of animals having rights, we may just come to understand their point of view. We won’t agree with it but we will be able to see how they think they are leading blameless lives and doing the ‘right thing’. They do have a sense of ‘right’. They act ‘right’ for most of the time so they do have a view about ‘being right’. On the subject of eating animals this is usually something in a special category. They’d say to us perhaps, “Who knows what is right?” What’s right for one isn’t ‘right’ for another. As vegans we hear many convoluted arguments. We need to know these as well as we know our own arguments for animal rights.