Omnivores holding back our species

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We know well enough that maintaining an animal-food habit doesn’t ensure good nutrition. We know that animal foods are the chief destroyers of health, but we have a taste for animal body parts, so we kill them and eat them to satisfy our taste buds and stomach. We believe we’d suffer withdrawals if we stopped, especially since they’re in a large percentage of the things we love to eat. And if they’re surreptitiously included in foods, we won’t know it unless we study the fine print on the ingredients list (many are listed under the cover of words we don’t understand like gelatine, whey and albumin (bones, milk and eggs).

No meal is thought to be complete without meat or at least some cheese or milk-derived product. Even if we did want to stop using ‘it all’, we’d have too little faith in our own willpower to stop altogether and if we don’t make a complete break these yummy products find their way back into our shopping baskets.

It seems then we are doomed - neither logic nor ill health nor guilt nor environmental impact will stop us buying ‘animal’, and therefore nothing will stop the killing of animals for food, and therefore we collectively can’t move on as a species.

Having empathy for food-animals is rare, so let’s say that at the moment, here in Australia, ‘it’ isn’t happening. Animals don’t touch our hearts enough. Our omnivore friends are brick walls when it comes to animal liberation and vegan diets.

And yet there are people coming over - vegans do exist and are growing in number, leaving behind their omnivore habits, developing empathy for exploited animals.