Do vegans become bores?

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I know we vegans seem to go on and on about the same old thing, but it’s not because we’re showing off or trying to make everyone feel guilty, it’s more to do with the entrenched habits which are keeping animals in slavery.  And if this enslavement of animals is to end, we need your support.  We need to get you on board.

         

If we animal liberationists can inspire change, we want them to be permanent changes.  Our arguments have to be introduced as carefully as you’d plant any seed in reasonably good ground - to achieve strong growth.  The formative period is critical, the way things are introduced, the support of those who are ready to make changes, the establishment of codes of conduct that reflect our core principles.  We must take care to argue non-violently and non-accusingly – hurrying nothing, dealing with each stage, issue by issue.  We have to try reaching your sense of sympathy, so that what you hear from us will stick in your memory, just like any great message you might pick up from a powerful movie or book.

Our job is to promote liberation philosophy for what it is, not just welfare reforms or incremental stages of granting privileges to animals or fiddling with omnivorous diets.  We must head for out and out abolition; that is to convince you of the need for no more use of animals.

         

Abolition is such a big thing.  And it’s from abolition that all else flows, as it did with the abolition of human-slavery.  A great opinion-change had to take place first, before slavery could be ended.  By the time slaves were freed, only then did people see why it always had to be about outright abolition, so there'd be no back-sliding later, when things got a little tough.

I suppose I’m edging towards the ultimate question then - to the best reason why we must no longer use animals.  During wartime conditions, in the 1940s, when there was a shortage of food, a great fear was born – real hunger from lack of food availability.  Perhaps it came down to either killing an animal for food or dying of hunger.  But that was then.  Today we lucky ones, living in the wealthy West, no longer suffer such conditions.  Now, we have plentiful food.  There is plenty of affordable, nutritious, plant-based food.  There’s no reason for NOT becoming vegan.