The bottom line

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The idea of veganism may easily enter the imagination but if it seems impossible, too painful or too daunting, then it’s likely that one might consider it as a small raindrop landing on a duck’s back –we’ll shake off that raindrop since no one wants any more discomfort to enter their lives.

Even if one had to contemplate a vegan lifestyle and had read books about it, it might still remain beyond the pale, since why would we voluntarily opt for living ‘vegan’ if the pleasure of it wasn't obvious?

If you can't contemplate the idea of ‘being vegan’, you can never be much help to the animals concerned, because if you’re not vegan it follows that you’re still eating them. How could you or indeed the animals ever trust you to be their spokesperson? You’d be quite the traitor if you were still helping to kill them whilst trying to save them.