Vegans are truly admirable. To coordinate and plan life around a vegan diet takes dedication, passion, tremendous planning, meticulous attention to detail and day-in, day-out commitment.
They cleanse their bodies and spirits from the pain and exploitation of sentient creatures, and for that, they rightly get to feel a sense of comfort that they are doing a good thing. That's why I want them to stop what they're doing. For all the good they are doing on the grand scale, they might as well eat meat. That's the tragedy - they feel good but it makes no difference. More animals are being bred in feed pens, pumped full of hormones and steroids and killed in fear and pain than ever - because demand is higher than ever and rising. It's only individual souls that are cleansed of guilt. The masses in a global population of 8 billion are unchanged. Worse still, it doesn't address the thing that is really going to kill us, and all the sentient beings on this planet. Many vegans think they are doing something for the planet (all vegans who are just doing it because they don't want to hurt animals or don't like cheese, this doesn't apply to you - fill your plates with all the chickpeas you can eat). But the planetary impact is as good as zilch. Fossil fuels are still dug up, rainforests are still burned, more planes are in the sky today than at any point in history, pumping out emissions that will cook the planet. Forgoing bacon and eggs achieves nothing. But imagine what you could achieve if you put that energy and organisation, that passion and commitment, into actually making a difference. If I could take away that comfort you feel, I would. Because imagine the anger, the pain, the fury you would feel without that moral superiority that comes with being vegan. Direct that phenomenal, admirable, revolutionary verve towards changing the system that is destroying us. I want you to be angry. Use it to do something that really matters. Then the planet, sentient creatures, and people will owe you their thanks for eternity. Vegans, stop being vegan and help us. We need you.
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AuthorHow to identify myself... a deeply concerned citizen of a fucked-up world, swinging with circadian regularity between esprit de vie and deep, black despair. PhD, entrepreneur, author, international experience, woman (should I add chromosomes to my list of qualifications....?) Archives
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