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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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