I don’t know what omnivores have in their bag of theories. I’m sure they must have arguments. I know we have theories which argue for something opposite to the way most people live. Vegans have theories. I’ll start with this one.
It runs along these lines:
After about 1945 (a lifetime away, almost) we came to know about the diabolical cruelty down on the farm. At that time we also came to know that human life was sustainable on a plant-based diet - we no longer had to make war on animals to survive healthily. The ‘vegan’ diet was born.
At about the same time came the birth of the battery cage, a violation of Nature matched by the violence of the recent war - some started to experiment, breaking with convention, to prove a non-violent world was possible.
That could have been the start of a very nice friendship. It could have started the discussion between vegans and omnivores and by now we could have made very real progress but another factor emerged. Will. Ego.
Now today, in the Information Age, everyone is educated because all information is available ... if only! It could be so but some information has been actively pushed away: it seemed humans wanted to be educated, informed and free to speak their minds but not comprehensively - certain matters were to be off-limits. Certain things had to be concealed and not discussed because it could be too disruptive.
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