Vegans take things too far

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Because most people are still grappling with their feelings about those humans who are different, when it manifests as classism, racism, homophobia, etc, it's taking things too far if we then have to consider our kinship with other species.  Most people don’t consider animals as if they mattered at all.  We are led to believe that they are as separate from humans as chalk from cheese.  Most humans take it as read that we are superior, and that entitles us to do what we like to the ‘sub-species’.  We imprison them, breed them, enslave them, kill them and eat them.  If we didn’t feel superior, we’d choke on every mouthful of meat we ate.

         

This is why vegan principle is potentially so threatening, because it proposes an egalitarian and respecting attitude towards all sentient animals. 

In human society we can be friendly to our differently-coloured neighbours living next door, but being nice to cattle and pigs?  Isn’t that taking things too far?  If on one level what vegans are saying seems logical, the only way to knock us off our perch is to portray vegans as uncool, weird and extremist.  In most people's minds, it would be preferable if vegans kept quiet, and maybe, even, forcibly quietened!