Unreasonable Reasons … (12/03/16)
Almost every time I speak with anyone about the massive cruelty inherent in the unnecessary tradition of humans eating animals, the person I happen to be speaking with comes back with their own favorite “reason” for doing so — reasons that often make sense when heard through the species-bigoted lenses of our current culture, and yet reasons that really are embarrassingly absurd when we stop to think about them …
*After all, if it is acceptable fur humans to eat other animals because “lions eat other animals too”, then it is also acceptable for humans to kill the children of our rivals and rape their women (a common practice of lions as well) …
*And after all, if it acceptable for humans to hunt animals for food because “our ancestors were hunters too”, then it is also acceptable for humans to mass murder our competitors and enslave their women (a common practice for our Stone Age predecessors) …
*And after all, if it is acceptable for humans to murder animals for food because “my massive canines are made to eat meat”, then it is also acceptable for humans to starngle strangers because our opposable thumbs are “made to choke windpipes” …
*And after all, if it is acceptable for humans to mass-abuse animals because “we’ve been doing it for centuries”, then it is also acceptable for humans to own human slaves and commit acts of cultural genocide (which we have also been doing quite regularly for centuries) …
*And after all, if it is acceptable to kill animals because “they are just stupid animals”, then it is also acceptable for humans to euthanize all those in our midst who are also less than intelligent (ironically, including more than a few of the same non-vegans who utter these & similar inanities) …
I could go on & on & on & on with these examples (and actually do so in the book I wrote on the subject — linked in the second comment box below), and yet the point is now certainly clear: There are NO VALID REASONS for murdering animals who certainly don’t want to die — only weak & hollow excuses.
So my Friends, please stop making excuses for the choices you make that harm others … Please stop making excuses, and please start being vegan.
Thank you.
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