There’s hope yet, but not quite yet

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I, like many other vegans, am trying to inform people whilst taking care of myself at the same time - I know that vegan principles can enlighten anyone and yet this much valued veganism can be isolating. For myself, I know it’s my own source of inner clarity, it shines a revealing light on so many questionable aspects of human life, but at present I often feel alone and effectively silenced.
Vegans are more alone than others since we’ve taken it upon ourselves to upturn the status quo. Plus we encourage others to leap into the void with us … which makes people afraid of what we want them to think about.
I’d like people to be thinking about how truth is being manipulated. And while, on the face of it, the truth of animal exploitation is so obvious, the Animal Industries are pushing in the opposite direction. They encourage less thinking and more spending. Not surprisingly they are winning, since they’ve been building their networks for many decades and indeed thousands of years. They’ve cornered the market, which means they’ve addicted most people to the things they want to sell them. If people were better informed and therefore better united they’d rise up against the general world of crap commodities, food or otherwise ... but we’re each in our own corner. Few of us are willing to take the lead.
Using unscrupulous methods, the Animal Industries get what they want because they know the customers are united in favour of their products ... hooked on a wide variety of animal products which are bought over and over again. But as new information comes to light and the penny drops, sooner or later we’ll come to realise why so many people are becoming so chronically unwell. On a physical level animal foods are a slow poison but on a spiritual level they gnaw at our conscience about the way our animal foods come to us. And whilst that can’t be proved I doubt if anyone is unconcerned at the part they play in animal cruelty.
Vegetarian foods and diets are already being tried and as the ethical dimensions become more obvious, alongside health rationales, more people will move that way and then, logically, step towards veganism … and, once that happens, a change in what people are thinking about will show up.