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Animal rights and vegan principle is the ONLY subject
universally tabooed these days because it’s in everyone’s interest (at least,
those who eat animal foods) to keep it x-rated. Farm animal abuse is, after
all, a huge covered-up crime. By keeping animal issues out of the limelight
everyone can carry on as if nothing bad is happening. It lets them continue to
eat animals and their by-products, and to hear no evil and see no evil.
Take the
average self-styled ‘vegetarian’, who isn’t really vegetarian at all because he
or she still condones the abuse of animals, who knows full well that animals
still have to suffer and die to provide them with their favourite foods.
Vegetarians feel exonerated because the flesh of the animal is no longer being
eaten by them.
They are
reluctant to admit that ALL animals get the chop, whether they lay eggs,
secrete milk or grow wool. Every one of them ends up at the abattoir where they
are brutally executed. Apart from kangaroo, non-farmed fish or other hunted
animals, every ‘food’ animal is imprisoned for their whole foreshortened life
in slum conditions. They are fed poor or even toxic food (which, when ingested
by us, go on to cause illness). These ‘food’ animals have to live out confined
lives and die ugly deaths simply because people want to eat yummy things and
pay a low prices for them.
For obvious
reasons then, it’s in the consumer’s interest not to get too interested in this
subject. Better to keep a slack conscience than to start empathising with the
animals, because that would logically lead to adopting a vegan lifestyle.
So, you see
what I mean? This is such a tight corner everyone’s in. Not only journalists
but teachers, preachers, fathers, mothers, everyone, in every branch of human
society, all implicated and all wanting NOT to know. No one wishes to talk
about the matter of whether we should be ‘using or not using animals’.
If our
vegan arguments were to be given any weight at all in the media, what precisely
would happen to our society? Probably not a lot, because it points to the final
humiliating disaster for humankind - that humans are, after all, not humane at
all.
This subject shows us for what we
are and what we have. The advantages of having such big brains doesn’t make us
any kinder, in fact our brains have helped to make us into the cold-hard
bastards that we are. And what’s worse, humans are predictably mired in
double-think and unable to use their fine intelligence to see things as they
really are. We use our brains to operate a sort of ‘forgetting mechanism’, to
block out the guilt of knowing something which we’ve seen (via mass media) and
yet have done nothing about.
The trouble
is, that the crime is so obvious (even a three year old can see it for what it
is) and the Animal Rights movement has woven such a tight argument around it,
that no one dares to face it, for fear of being shown up. The reason that the
animal advocate might seem so dangerous is that our message is so simple, as if
we have a time bomb waiting to go off.
From the
authorities’ point of view, this whole matter must be suppressed. The most
repressive dictator couldn’t do a better job on ‘freedom of speech’ than we do
here, in our so called free-speech world, by the way we gag this particular
uncomfortable truth.
That’s a
rather creepy thought, wouldn’t you say? No one is actually admitting that
vegans might just have a case to argue!
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