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As a species we’ve thrived on meat eating – we say, “Look at
us now. We wouldn’t be who we are unless our ancestors had eaten meat.”
We think we’ve advanced, that we
are so much more superior to animals, and that gives us the right to use them
and benefit ourselves from eating them.
Vegans find that ultimately
frightening but as carefully as we try to convince others how misguided this
is, we may not succeed if we can’t get past the value judgement behind our
words.
All the time we maintain this
sort of judgemental approach we never even get close to dislodging the
illogicality behind animal exploitation. As free-willed adults each of us has
the right not to be swayed by value judgements. If we vegans want to change
people’s views, all we can do is to tell our story without the moral having to
be spelled out. To show that there’s something better in life than chasing
second-rate, pleasure-inducing food treats, we need merely appear happy to be
setting an example as ‘humane’ humans. There’s great pleasure to be had in living
for the greater good, and very little pleasure to be found condemning the
behaviour of others.
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