Principle separated from Taste

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The Animal Rights movement has a bucket load of embarrassing facts and logical arguments to persuade people to abandon animal-exploited products?  But why would omnivores listen to us? It's not compulsory listening.

This is the free-willed human we’re talking about here.  This is the over-eater and habitual spender, who is one amongst the vast majority.  This is the 'animal-eater' who is presently quite comfortable, and apart from the stray vegan, there's no one else to say animal-eating is wrong.  The free-willed human may be obstinate and perhaps even arrogant.  Each one may be said to be selfish and thoughtless.  Those who think at all about animal issues but are determined not to change their eating habits have probably spent a lifetime building walls against our arguments.

Each one is certainly a customer of the Animal Industries.  To all intents and purposes, I’m referring to everyone, the collective, the make-up of our Society, and yet none are necessarily hard hearted or bloodthirsty by nature.  Perhaps they aren't even implacably anti-vegan.  But it's likely that each one is attracted and often addicted to many of the yummy animal products currently on sale and within reach of almost all people.  The last thing on Earth they want to do is give up these favourite products.  And never to return to them again.

Consequently they don't want to hear ANYTHING we’ve got to say.  In their mind we’re to be boycotted in the same way that we boycott a lot of what they eat.  They boycott us and we boycott them, in effect.  It amounts to a lot of separation.  Which is why vegans have their work cut out.