NOT knowing

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I know omnivores have arguments of their own but they never say what they are. I do know that vegans have opposite arguments, and I can only state what they are based on and say how sad it is that people have sold out to easy living. Outrage is dead. Societies everywhere in the world have allowed, participated and encouraged outrageous cruelty to farm animals.

After about 1945 (almost a lifetime away) they invented diabolical cruelties for farm animal. At the very same time science showed that animals were not necessary for food, and that human life could be sustained on a plant-based diet. The opportunity to live a cruelty-free life was turned down. Every informed person ignored what they believed could be true. A few early vegans went on to show the science was correct. That, in tune with what Ghandi was demonstrating at the time, was a doorway into a non-violent nature for mankind. It was a response to the cruelty of human nature so amply demonstrated in the violence of the 1940s.

On the domestic front, the greatest cruelty came with the birth of the battery cage, a violation of Nature if ever there was one. It matched the violence of the recent war – now there was violence inside our very food.

Vegans vowed to eat no more violence-food. These were the first experimental plant-diet advocates. They were the first animal rights advocates, who would go on to prove that a vegan diet worked on all levels. They were pointing to a non-violent human-species-to-come.

Resistance to non-violence has strengthened in today’s Information Age. Everyone is educated because information is so available but resistance, to certain unsavoury information, is stealing our greatest freedoms. Our freedom to think for ourselves, along with our much prized freedom of speech, is being eroded. Today, information is pushed away so that people can live life to the full. Cruelty issues, regarding farm animals, are off-limits.

Pretending to NOT know things has become as important, to some people, as knowing things.