A lot of people pay lip service to logic and reason. Take Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the celebrity scientist (emphasis on “celebrity”), for example – a man with quite the reputation for being an intelligent, critical thinker. He appears regularly on television and radio programs, he’s hosted a number of science-based TV series, he’s written best-selling books, and he’s travelled the world giving lectures… Basically, his image is one of a “beacon of reason”, in a world that seems saturated with stupidity … And yet Neil revealed his true self a couple of years ago when, during one of his lectures, he was asked to give his opinion on the relationship between climate change and animal agriculture (with the scientific consensus being that the latter is the clear-cut #1 cause of the former). Neil didn’t hesitate, explaining that instead of “giving up [his] 16-ounce ribeye”, he would prefer for humanity to somehow invent a way to “scrub CO2 out of the atmosphere”. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, he went on to brazenly proclaim that humans had created cows “to turn grass into steak” … That’s what often happens when people try to argue against veganism: critical thinking, logic, and reason (not to mention basic decency and one’s innate sense of ethics) go right out the window, overruled by the more immediate, primitive desires for mere comfort & pleasure.

Seriously, my Friends, don’t be like Neil — for if you are willing to discard your principles & morals whenever they’re inconvenient to you, then you don’t actually have either.

 

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