The wall

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When you see our society through vegan eyes so much becomes clear about our habits - the selfishness, violence, stupidity and weakness of humans. Early habits lock us into later ones, so selfishness urges us to eat what we like which means a whole lot of animals are killed for the food we want, which settles into a lifetime of eating habits, which leads to ill health ‘old-age’ diseases. The doctor says it’s just getting old and we can expect it, and we believe the doctor. No-change is prescribed. We spend a lifetime eating poisonous foods and developing a guilty conscience for conspiring with animal violators. Vegans just don’t suffer from any of this, because they are eating plant foods.
Learning the vital information about plant foods is done quite easily today. Nothing can be kept secret. The animal industries are exposed. But we might not even be looking, content with the way things are, intimidated by the massive propaganda wall we would have to climb over. This wall has been built in our minds during our formative years and most people accept the attitude that animals are safe to eat and it isn’t wrong to imprison them and kill them.
Once we dare to climb that wall the mind starts to change. Instead of avoiding information it looks for it ... and finds it surprisingly easy to see what life’s like on the other side. If we’re suspicious of what we’ve been taught and have enough rebellious spirit, we might go exploring.
Young people (and a few older ones too), using technology to access information, start to take control of what they learn, and learn different values for a different lifestyle. Traditions and conventions and authorities and mass media will scream the opposite values at us. In answer to that we have instinct and logic, and that helps us to climb the wall. If we want to we can disassociate with the old familiar dark, violent world. We can be optimistic about our own future and want the best for the planet and, by simply eating plant foods we can help defend the innocent but exploited animals.
On the other side of the wall we swop foods, swop attitudes and eventually notice we’ve also swopped body chemistry. I found even my own small brain functions better when not weighed down with animal foods. I’m no longer feeling unwell, catching colds or having too little energy. It’s all a thing of the past.
For young people especially, the great advantage of having read about animal rights and vegan diets is that by having this new perspective on life, they’re more self-confident and feel better educated - less manipulated by having been kept ignorant of important issues .
As ‘the wall’ crumbles behind us we’re already half way to solving Earth’s main problems by being less wanting, less selfish. We’re already half way to repairing damage and leading our society towards becoming more optimistic.