How to stop hurting animals

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You can ask any three year old kid why we are hurting animals and, even if they don’t know the answer they’ll understand the question. It isn’t complicated. It’s just a sad indictment on those of us who are still caught up in the whole sorry mess of violence-towards-animals. It’s an adult-ego thing, I think. Most people try to prop up the popular food regime system, or they try to justify what they do. The average adult still argues that we DO need animal food for our health, even though they probably know the argument is dead, even when they know that the evidence is to the contrary. They might realise the benefits of plant-based diets, and they that they are quite safe, healthy and maximise energy, but still be reluctant to change.

            There’s been an information revolution over these past two decades. There’s an abundance of nutritional details available on the Internet. There’s advice about preparing vegan food, learning what to buy, and how to make vegan food taste good, and where the vitamins and minerals are to be found. It’s all there at the click of a mouse. Where we used to spend hours searching for information from books in the library, it now takes no time at all, simply by following the links we are interested in.

            There is no excuse for not knowing. It’s now just a matter of being prepared to learn and make changes to personal eating habits. If we aren’t prepared to change then it augers poorly for us. We can’t plan for the future for ourselves, because we can’t adapt to the changing world nor therefore see any hope for the world. And so the whole sorry mess of our situation continues, and animal farming (and our part in it as consumers) mirrors the resistance within our own heads and hearts.

The reluctance to change is based on the fear finding out what we already know, namely, how to stop hurting animals and how to save ourselves from our own complicity.