Don’t eat them, help them

In the West the wealthy animal industries do good business out of us. In Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer it states that each of us will consume 21,000 animals in our lifetime. Just in that one frightening statistic it is clear that Earth is one cold-hard factory planet.
Those of us who try to observe vegan principles, who share a common horror of what is happening, prefer to stay away from certain habits that fellow human beings have, even to the point of isolating ourselves socially. In consequence, by disassociating, they don’t much like us for being non-omnivores. Luckily for us this is not the 1940s, when veganism made its first appearance but seventy years later. There may be more of us now (but not many more and we are scattered thinly across the globe). However the compensation, for being still in such minority numbers is that, amongst fellow activists, we’re likely to have some pretty impressive friends, fellow vegans. They share our boycott (i.e. food and clothing solely from plant products) and provide a sense of normality for us. Nevertheless it’s not pleasant being misunderstood by just about everybody. It’s particularly unpleasant being resented, being made to feel lonely and in consequence made to feel sorry for ourselves. Poor us!!