Meaning what we mean … (05/03/17)
Isn’t this a beautiful family? And isn’t it just as wonderful that we can all live long (actually far longer) and healthy (actually much healthier) lives without harming them — that we have no reason in all of the world to hurt them in any way?
And yet harm them we do — we harm them using cruel confinement, we harm them using sadistic technologies, and we ultimately harm them using brute force … We separate them from their families, we sear off their beaks & cram them into cages, we grind their male babies alive and we murder their female children once they reach the adolescent age of two. Indeed, though there is no reason whatsoever to cause them harm, we humans take everything from them, including their bonds with each other and in the end their very lives.
Choosing not to do so is not being ‘kind’ and it’s not being ‘compassionate’ … It’s just basic decency.
So my Friends, when we say we care about other animals, let’s be honest with ourselves. Do we actually mean those important words or are we trying to disguise an ugly truth — the truth that our most trivial whim (i.e. “they taste good”) is more important to us than the very lives & well-being of this beautiful family and those like them?
Being moral people means meaning our moral words, and meaning our moral words means being vegan. There truly is no other way to live and let live, and there truly is no other way to live as a just & compassionate being.
Please do the decent thing today … Please go vegan.
Thank you.
(inspired by There’s an Elephant in the Room)
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