1802:
Protest. Outrage. “No longer!” we say. But, in
reality, even if we feel outraged, we don’t think we’d have enough willpower to
alter our eating habits radically, to accord with principle. It seems that,
when it comes to food, that nothing is powerful enough to convince us to stop.
Neither ill health, guilt, conscience or environmental impact will bring us to
make a stand against the atrocity of animal farming.
If it reaches enough
‘critical mass’ to bring us to the decision to ‘go-vegan’, we know it will mean
having to turn our back on just about everyone and everything. Later, if we’ve
done it, and we’ve settled into it, only then do we realise it was the best
thing we ever did, or could ever have done for ourselves.
By withdrawing our support
from the Animal Industries and freeing ourselves from the addictive grip of
their products, we fix the heart-ache in us. Plus we add another nail in the
coffin of the Animal Industry and in so doing help to liberate the gulag-ed
animals.
But this switching-over is no
light matter. If we give up eating meat one day, then it follows that next day
we’ll have to be questioning the whole ethical basis of animal farming and the
misinformation of conventional animal-based nutrition. So what might have
started out as a change of diet, now opens up into a whole new world of
thinking, a whole significant change of attitude.
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