Thursday, July 18, 2013

Taking care or using force

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Lack of change or improvement suggests life won’t get any better than it is at present. Our comfort zones hold us back. It seems that without crisis or explosion we don’t have enough ‘oomph’ to break out of our familiar behaviour patterns.
            As a vegan, I might attempt to cause an ‘explosion’ in what I say (on this subject of animal abuse) because I see no other way of bringing to the reluctant consciousness of the general public, but I meet my match when I attempt to force attitude change when it comes to food. This attitude permits one to continue a habit that’s been familiar to every day of one’s life. It is so entrenched that, when pressure is applied to it, heels dig in. On this matter particularly people will not be moved, let alone pushed around.

            Vegans need to remember in their own past, when we ourselves resisted, when it seemed like an impossibility to abandon animal products, and when all talk of the bad treatment of farm animals was denied. “They may suffer sometimes but not always...”. To bring people across this barrier, this reluctances, this hostility or just indifference, we need a non-confrontational approach. Otherwise, people will never modify their attitude, and that would be a tragedy for both humans and non-humans.

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