Gutsy Talk

1731:

To stand up for animals you have to be vegan, and to be vegan you have to have guts. No need for any tickets on yourself. No need to start boasting about it. You just need a strong will and to be determined. Being vegan is not for the faint hearted. It isn’t a breeze. Apart from no longer indulging in the huge array of 'delicious' animal-based food products, you’ll find even your best friends will pretend they can’t understand your reasons for abstaining from animal-based foods.

So, why do we go this far? Perhaps because it’s the starting point to all the changes humans need to make if they really want to move on from our violence-based natures which we’ve inherited.

Humans have done horrible things to each other and even worse things to the animals, and in the process nearly wrecked many of the delicately balanced systems of the planet. Those who are making the strongest and most significant stand against this deeply ingrained violence are vegans. We have such a simple solution, and yet because the starting point involves abstaining from animal-based foods, most people refuse to see the connection, and so have to dismiss us. By rejecting the rationale for our diet and the ethics behind it, they miss the solution. And so, the problem of human violence is allowed to continue.

The reason we make such a fuss about animal slavery is because it’s as ugly as any slavery gets. It reflects the nastiest side of human nature, the ability we have to turn a blind eye towards something so clearly visible and acknowledgeable. For this alone we should all be ashamed. It is, after all, the clue to solving global problems related to the destructive behaviour of our species; the clue lies in the way we’ve chosen to treat the ‘sub-species’.