Myth #10: “Relax … You think too much.”
Being vegan is not about “thinking” … It’s about CARING. Closing your eyes to cruelty doesn’t make it go away, my Friends. And if being exposed to the cruelty that your choices directly support bothers you, then the place to look is not at the one doing the exposing …
… the place to look is in the mirror.
Indeed, what would happen if those of us who are morally opposed to injustice & bigotry never stood up to those who own slaves — or to those who subjugate women — or to those who abuse children – or to those who torture dogs & cats & any other of our beloved household pets? Cruel systems of torture and oppression never change unless people who are decent and moral and just have the courage to take a stand and publicly illuminate such cruelty.
Current status of this Myth: Obliterated
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE
“The Holocaust happened because ordinary people chose to ignore the extraordinary oppression and abuse being inflicted on innocents by the Nazis. Millions of people went about their daily lives, knowingly turning a blind eye to the suffering of those they didn’t relate to … My grandfather often said that this mind-set, whether it manifested itself as the oppression of animals or of people, exemplified the most hideous and dangerous of all racist principles… Like the victims of the Holocaust, animals are rounded up, trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered. Comparisons to the Holocaust are not only appropriate but inescapable because, whether we wish to admit it or not, cows, chickens, pigs and turkeys are as capable of feeling loneliness, fear, pain, joy and affection just as we are. To those who defend the modern-day Holocaust on animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food to give us sustenance, I ask: If the victims of the Holocaust had been eaten, would that have justified their abuse and their murder? Did the fact that lampshades, soaps and other ‘useful’ products were made from their bodies excuse the Holocaust?” ~ Stephen R. Dujack
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