250 capital crimes

At some point in a discussion we need to establish the scale of the crime we’re talking about. (To us it’s a really appalling crime but it isn’t yet, necessarily, to omnivores). Animal exploitation - once the ‘crime-status’ is established there’s no need to go back over it again and again. Our main job is to establish why we think it’s a crime, that’s all. That’s the main difference between an omnivore and a vegan is their evaluation of the situation.
First, before discussing if it IS a crime, we have to settle in the ‘collective vegan head’, that people in general are not idiots. We must credit them with enough raw intelligence to understand what we’re saying to them. And no, they mightn’t react the way we want, but they may take it in. If we use something like a shock fact, the ‘250’ deaths, (see yesterday’s blog) the impact is powerful. It arrests people in their thinking, because it’s a surprisingly large number and it implies that each omnivore is responsible for many animal executions every year (amounting to 25,000 if get to be one hundred years old!!).
Once this ‘crime’ is mentioned, we’ve effectively laid our cards on the table. And then, at least, we can have a sensible discussion. Hopefully without too much heavy value judgement. Our emphasis should be on gullibility - how people have been bamboozled by The Animal Industry. How otherwise beautiful people have been drawn into the clutches of an ugly world (parallel to the beautiful one we also know).
If 250 deaths are carried out on our behalf, then there’s no other statistic necessary - the whole cruelty thing is terrible but if we weren’t eating them (killing them) we wouldn’t be breeding them in the first place … and no horror would be happening.