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Animal Rights isn’t a subject which comes up casually in
conversation. Most people studiously avoid it, which is why we need to find
ways to bring it up without being too ‘over the top’ about it. It’s much easier
if we are aiming to discuss the welfare of farm animals. It’s much harder if we
aim to talk about the wrongness of
using-animals altogether.
Of course, since most people use
animals for food and clothing it isn’t likely they’d immediately swing our way
and agree with us about this ‘wrongness’, especially of animal-based foods.
Even less likely agree about co-products like leather or by-products like milk.
There are too many reasons why most people are reluctant to talk about any of
this, whereas vegans do want to. We feel an urgency to talk about it.
I see the destiny of the world
linked to this very subject, because there are so many global problems I would
associate with animal farming. So, it comes down to this: your reluctance
versus my eagerness.
I don’t
regard this as some cosy subject for intellectual debate, or a subject we can
politely agree to disagree about. The bare bones of the way I see it is
civilised-human versus barbaric-human. You might not agree. So, whatever
outrageous thing I might say, it just seems to you that I’m attacking the ways
of the world.
Two
opposite views concerning the right humans have to use animals.
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