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To stand up for animals you have to be
vegan, and to be vegan you have to have guts. No need for any tickets on
yourself. No need to start boasting about it. You just need a strong will.
Being vegan is not for the faint hearted. It isn’t a breeze. Apart from no
longer indulging in the huge array of delicious animal-based food products,
you’ll find even your best friends will pretend they can’t understand your
reasons for abstaining from animal-based foods.
So,
why do we go this far? Perhaps because it’s the starting point to all the
changes humans need to make if they really want to move on from the
violence-based natures that we’ve inherited.
The humans have done horrible
things to each other and even worse things to the animals, and in the process
nearly wrecked many of the delicately balanced systems of the planet. Those who
are making the strongest and most significant stand against this deeply ingrained
violence are vegans. We have such a simple solution, and yet because the
starting point involves abstaining from animal-based foods, most people refuse
to see the connection, and so have to dismiss us. By rejecting the rationale
for our diet and the ethics behind it, they miss the solution. And the problem
of human violence is allowed to continue.
The reason we make such a fuss about animal
slavery is because it’s as ugly as any slavery gets. It reflects the nastiest
side of human nature, the ability we have to turn a blind eye towards something
so clearly visible and acknowledgeable.
For this alone we should all
be ashamed. It is, after all, the clue to solving global problems related to
the destructive behaviour of our species; the clue lies in the way we’ve chosen
to treat the ‘sub-species’.
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