In time

1173: 

In time we’ll realise what we’ve done. We’ll treat all animals with as much dignity as we do our own children and companion animals.

Just as environmental consciousness has sprung out of a concern for the planet, so a plant-based diet will spring out of our concern for animals as well as our own health. As empathy grows with the spread of information, as non-violent solutions to our problems begin to make sense, so entrenched attitudes will inevitably shift. And as time goes by, as this shift takes place, we’ll forget why humans once ate animals. The word ‘veganism’ will by then be long-since redundant, since plant-based eating will be the normal (read ‘intelligent’) thing to do.

Time is the great healer. I hope. I hope time-passing will help us atone for what we’ve done to them. History will record what happened to animals, and later report on their rehabilitation, in sanctuaries. But the big date in the history of our times will be the day the law was passed, where it became illegal to breed animals. “The very idea of interfering with another species’ breeding cycles, let alone imprisoning them! As unthinkable as Dr. Mengele’s experiments on humans, in Nazi Germany”.

         

When humans become animal guardians, both humans and everything else will find peace.

I just hope to hell the animals will be able to forgive us.