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It seems that today our human passion and outrage is
reserved for environmental issues and not for issues concerning animal farming
or animal experimentation. It’s sad
enough that the beautiful planet is being damaged, and sad too that rapid
species loss is taking place, but more insidious is our deliberate and routine
attack on animals – those animals ‘designed’ for food, clothing and
pharmaceutical production. This is where
there’s not only great damage being done to ourselves and billions of innocent
animals, but also a mindless perverting of the beauty of Nature, with no end in
sight.
No animal product is essential, for any reason whatsoever. Sure, leather is strong and waterproof but no
one’s life is threatened without it. Sure,
cheese and eggs seem useful for making yummy products but again, never
essential. And the fact is that they’re
not difficult to replace. Nothing from
animals is so essential that we’d be forced to compromise our principles. Nothing justifies our ‘need’ for their muscle
tissue or their by-products or co-products, and yet creature-killing has become
routine in every human community on the planet. Humanity is hooked on animal stuff. We can’t see past these animal products, to
where they could be replaced with plant-based equivalents. As with the kicking of any bad habit, it’s all
in the mind.
What vegans should be communicating is how easy it is to
kick.
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