The bigger picture

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It springs from changed attitude. And it’s already happening with some people, in their attitude to non-humans. We have all benefitted from the results of fifty-odd years of coming to terms with the science - the nutritional evidence about animal foods combined with scientific proof of on-going cruelty to animals. My own feelings of gratitude for the ‘science’ is always with me. I’m grateful to know how NOT to poison myself with certain foodstuffs. I’m also eternally grateful for the data concerning modern animal husbandry methods. The only way I can show my appreciation is to use that raw information to put the case for The Voiceless.

            For us, there’s a need for action. And that action needs to be carried out by dedicated activists and advocates, whose energy supplies have been underwritten by their personal diet and clear conscience. With this combination, we should be able to stop what’s going on, eventually. To liberate animals.

            We’ve had half a century of consciousness-raising, and now everyone, even kids, have got the picture - we all know what ‘battery hens’ means, or what ‘cage-free eggs’ are, or ‘stall-free pork’. Change is in the air, but perhaps it’s still only focusing on ending factory farming. Not animal farming. In this way it’s not happening for Animal Rights.

What is happening, though, is encouraging. Today, we have many who have voluntarily taken up a diet which conforms with their ethical reasons for wanting change; people are changing their attitudes and habits, and they don’t have to swear allegiance to any of these changes. Change is being carried out simply because we want to contribute to the future. It’s in our own interests as well as the World, and I mean a future which most of us want and can approve of.

Animal Rights implies a massively different, empathetic way of looking at life. Within this tiny mind-shift there’s a revolution. No blood or war or force or authority or danger, just a huge attitude shift - to vegan principle.

In a completely vegan world no one would be finger-wagging or pressuring anyone. The animals would be liberated, and by then other problems will have been dealt with, helped by this one self-generated action of attitude-change. Surely, that’s the big picture.