Assuming the BEST … (01/10/17)
If I actually thought that all of you were “bad people” who just supported animal cruelty for kicks, then I wouldn’t post about veganism at all … I’m not doing it because I think you are “bad people”, I am doing it because animal cruelty is indeed BAD (far worse than bad, actually), because animal cruelty is completely unnecessary, because you as non-vegans ARE directly supporting animal cruelty, and because I think you are actually all Good People at heart — VERY Good People — very Good People who would never knowingly support the unnecessary use, abuse & murder of innocent animals like your beloved dogs & cats …
And so I tell you all about it, not because I want to out you as “bad people” but because I firmly & wholeheartedly believe that you are Good People who are simply unaware of what you are doing, and unaware that you can quite easily stop doing it … I should know — I was an unwitting animal abuser for the first 45 years of my life (37 years as a meat-eater and 8 years as a vegetarian egg&dairy abuser). Then someone informed me about what I was supporting with my habits — about the enormous cruelty that my dollars were directly funding … And so I stopped funding that cruelty and became vegan that week … It wasn’t easy, I will admit, and yet it was Right, and felt truly fantastic (physically as well as mentally) after only a short time … Indeed today my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner — MUCH sooner.
And THAT is why I am telling you all about veganism — so that you, like me, can move from living a life that directly supports torture & wickedness to thriving in a life based in Justice & Compassion.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you make this all-important transition … And thanks in advance for doing so.
“Most of us try to be good people. Most of us think that at heart, we are … It shakes our belief in ourselves on the day we find out that the non-vegan life we have been living is a harsh and violent life; a life of causing unnecessary and unspeakable harm to the vulnerable, of thoughtlessly taking life from gentle individuals who value their lives and don’t want to die; a life of leaving a careless bloodbath in our wake … It doesn’t have to be that way. We can all be the people we already think we are … We can be vegan … And today is a good day to start.” ~ There’s an Elephant in the Room
“Our grandchildren will ask us one day, ‘Where were you during the Holocaust of the animals? What did you do against these horrific crimes?’ This time around we won’t be able to say, ‘We didn’t know it was going on.” ~ Dr Helmut Kaplan
“I’ll stop fighting for the animals when I join the ones I couldn’t save.”
~ Arnie (Willowite)
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