the Real Reason … (12/31/14)
On a number of occasions over the course of the last year & a half, more than a few folks have asked me why in the world I’ve gone vegan, and I freely admit that I have offered a number of different answers over that same period of time …
Yes, there are amazing health benefits to being vegan — and Yes, being vegan means that I am doing a small-yet-significant part in seeing that the thirsty of the world have clean water to drink and the hungry of the world have food to eat — and Yes, going vegan is indeed the single most effective way any of us can help prevent a global ecological catastrophe that remains imminent.
AND YET none of those very valid justifications are the REAL REASON why I went vegan … The real reason I went vegan — and the reason I will remain vegan for the rest of my life — is this: I could no longer support the abuse — or the enslavement, or the torture, or the murder …
… of my dog Nooka (one of my best Friends).
For indeed, once you sit back for a moment and realize just why it is that you too would NEVER for one instant allow your own dog or cat to be confined in a tiny, filthy pen — or be castrated without anesthesia, or be repeatedly impregnated against its will, or have its puppies (or kittens) stolen away immediately after birth, or be strung up and killed after only a few short years of life — then you too will quite easily understand why it is that I cannot support doing those very things to other animals in our lives; animals who may not be our “pets”, but who happen to be just as worthy of kindness & decency all the same.
With that said, I wish you & yours Peace & Joy this final day of 2014,
… and a very Happy New Year as well … for ALL!!!
S, out … Compassion, in
“When we cultivate a mindful awareness of the clear and irrefutable consequences of our food choices, and then adopt a plant-based way of eating, we become a revolution of one, and actively contribute to the foundation of a peaceful new world with every meal we eat thereafter.” ~ inspired by Will Tuttle
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