Emerging from a dark world

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Vegans, are trying to inform people whilst taking care of themselves at the same time - vegan principles are enlightening and yet this much-valued veganism can be isolating. It’s a source of inner clarity, it shines a revealing light on so many questionable aspects of human life, but at present being vegan can mean one is effectively silenced.

Vegans are more alone than others since we’ve taken it upon ourselves to turn the status quo upside down. We encourage others to do likewise, and that makes people afraid of us for what we're asking them to think about.

We're asking people to think about how truth is being manipulated. And while, on the face of it, the truth of animal exploitation is so obvious, the Animal Industries are pushing in the opposite direction. They encourage less thinking and more spending. Not surprisingly, they are winning. They’ve been building their networks for many decades and indeed over thousands of years. They’ve cornered the market, which means they’ve addicted most people to the things they want to sell them. If people were better informed and better united, they’d rise up against the general world of popular commodities, food or otherwise. But we’re each in our own corner. Few of us are willing to take that step, let alone lead others to follow.

Using unscrupulous methods, the Animal Industries get what they want because they know the customers are united in favour of their products. Almost everyone is hooked on a wide variety of animal products which are being bought on a daily basis. But as new information comes to light about what is in animal-based foods, the truth becomes unavoidable, and eventually we’ll come to realise why so many are becoming so chronically unwell. On a physical level animal foods are a slow poison but on a spiritual level they gnaw at our conscience, about the cruelty involved in the way our animal foods come to us.

Vegan foods and diets are already being tried, and as the ethical dimensions become more obvious, alongside health rationales, more people will move that way and then, logically, step towards a change in their thinking patterns. Using their move away from cruelty-laden products they'll begin to see the wonderful world of harmlessness open up to them; from behind thick clouds a long-forgotten sun emerges to shine a brilliant light on everything it touches.