How to stop hurting animals

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You can ask any three year old kid why we are hurting animals and, even if they don’t know the answer they’ll understand the question. It isn’t complicated. It’s just a sad indictment on those of us who are still caught up in the whole sorry mess of violence-towards-animals. And then also there’s the ego factor. Most people seem to be spending a lot of energy trying to prop up the system, or trying to save face, in order to justify what they do.

            The average adult still argues that we DO need animal food for our health, even though they probably already know this argument is dead. The evidence is to the contrary, that nutrition and the benefits of plant-based diets is about keeping ourselves safe, healthy and maximising our energy.

            The nutritional details are available on the Internet, along with advice about preparing vegan food, learning what to buy, and how to make vegan food taste good, and where the vitamins and minerals are. It’s all there at the click of a mouse. What a wonderful age, where what used to take me a week in the library now takes a second or two, click, click, finding out things I want to know about.

            At present we humans can’t plan for the future because we look at ourselves and see no hope for the world. The sorry mess of animal farming and our part in it (as consumers) mirrors the mess inside our own heads and hearts. And then there’s fear! We fear finding out what we need to know - namely, how to stop hurting animals.