Food

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If vegan food seems grim, if it has that image, then our job is to show that it is not. But this means we have to learn how to prepare it, cook it and discover ways to ‘wow’ people with it.

Alongside that, we should find ways to restore our own personal image, to become someone others would be happy to look up to. Animal Rights must start with kindness, not anger, revenge or force. With animals we have a certain sense of kin-ness. We are dealing with both animals and people here, so our approach to both should be warm, instructive and protective. But with those who can understand us, we should be bold and challenging at the same time. Perhaps there’s room to stir things up, just to get people thinking about the absurdity of what they do. And part of that, so there are no misunderstandings, we ought to clear up the misunderstanding about vegetarians and vegetarian-ism.

As vegetarians, we may want to talk about food, healthy bodies and killing animals to eat them. But there are deeper reasons for being pro-animal. Slavery.

Most humans have let things get badly out of hand. They seek to preserve health and enjoy their food and leathers, but they sell their souls. By helping to enslave animals for eating.