Choices

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Humans have two choices; either we ignore the plight of domesticated animals or we act to liberate them. It’s the one big choice still left to us, and it’s the only choice an individual can make that can break the cycle of violence within our collective nature. Each of us can choose one way or the other. If we do choose to work to liberate animals, then it follows that everything else may fall into place.

Every mistake has the potential of repair, and in this case one thing can so easily lead to another. On an individual level, the use of plant food can lead to health. This can lead to a more ethically healthy conscience, which in turn can lead to environmental sensibility, and inevitably to a solution to world hunger problems. But if we choose NOT to go along that path, then nothing can substantially ever change. Things will only continue to get worse, and we more shackled than ever.

            Freeing ourselves starts at home, making personal choices, and disregarding Society’s indifference. It’s a grass roots approach to social change and it has to start this way because no government will ever take the initiative and close down the abattoirs without the electorate’s consent. All the time abattoirs are open the commercial interests will flourish and animal issues will be sidelined.

Public attitude to farmed animals can only change when people are inspired by vegan principle, and not put off by it; fashion changes when there are enough suitably-minded people who are trying to make their principles work for them.

Vegans therefore need a face-lift. We need to become attractive. Our food, clothing, ideas about non-violence, all this must come across as the most intelligent and self-benefitting choice one could ever make for oneself.