Busting fear

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Imagine if vegan food did really let you think faster, by relieving the mind of guilt and giving you a sense of hope. I suppose that being vegan means you don’t have to be afraid of who you are, or fear doom for eating animals. Instead we can look forward, perhaps for the first time in our lives, to far less self-imposed ill health, guilty conscience, spiritual failure and, at least in our own heads, to the idea of the animals cursing us. Nor do we have to fear being addicted to crap foods or the shame of being slaves to convention. The freedom from all that is the bonus of eating-vegan, as if we can now challenge the presence of violence and all the paraphernalia of violence.

            We are probably coming to the end of an age where crude solutions (like resorting to violence) are thought to be appropriate. We are close to ending the relevance of violence, and finding a far less destructive way of intercoursing between groups with different-opinions.

            Vegans need to set the example here - our own dissociation with violence should start by our not hating carnivores. We need to talk to the meat-eaters, and since there are so many of them we have our work cut out!

Although the work involved in establishing rights for animals might seem to drain our energy, we can see today that although the forces against us are huge they are lessening. Our society is facing a choice - to recognise the scientific evidence of the value of plant-based diets, or to continue clinging to a superseded means of making energy by way of violating animals. Remaining as an omnivore these days is rather like laying an unnecessarily heavy carbon footprint on ourselves.