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The time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci

 
HOW WE DISCONNECT:
 
I think the most rattling thing about my vegan revelations is trying to go backward to where the "switch" began.  I know it starts with "pork-chop trees" or "God Wants Us to Eat Animals" or "Survival".  Any variations thereof are all: RATIONALIZATIONS
 

Culture permits this rationalization... and gives us all "social license" to continue on this course of denial, through reinforcement from parents, and further indoctrination from schools.  The ruse is neatly executed without a glitch... Then, a nice vegetarian comes along and violates this "pact". 

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Things you might hear when you tell people you are vegan: 

  1.  But what about the plants,
  2. God put them here for us,
  3. at least they got to live,
  4. animals don't feel,
  5. but we treat the animals nicely,
  6. if we didn't eat them, they'd eat us,
  7. but what else is there if we didn't eat meat,  
  8. man's body was made to eat meat,
  9. if we didn't eat them, they'd all go extinct,
  10. a cow's poop fertilizes vegetables,
  11. for every animal you don't eat, I'll eat 2,
  12. I couldn't live without meat,
  13. I think people are more important than animals,
  14. what about the Inuit, and more...

These are just some of the reasons which can all be clearly discounted if one takes the effort to examine, research, read and investigate... But one must have the desire to do so... and after that it will necessitate change... or betrayal of their own value system by repressing the knowledge.  In essence cutting off from something in themselves that is so guarded that the existance of someone who has done the thinking is a threat to that "bliss" of not knowing.  Indeed, many will even say

15. I don't want to know...

That frightens me... living with so many people who chose not to think about something so important as taking a life... a life of a "friend".  Remember... this is what we are first taught about animals and virtue:  Animals are friends and cause no harm. 

... it's a plethora to negotiate through. 

All the assumed truths perputate the lie by making sure we never challenge and are never challenged to find out the real answers.

So, the subject of eating animals, eating our friends - becomes "second nature". 

 
 
 
 

 

I was a nice vegetarian... of course, not a totally unsympathetic one - I sort of did "side" with the animals... enough to not eat them.  But I think I was quite tolerant of the world around me... the meat eaters and animal users... The one's who's ethics did not align with mine - but that I excused in the name of "choice". 
 
Besides... I knew well that everything about animal care and treatment was in their compassionate hands.  In my mind... no one was too far from the values we all have been taught.  To be kind... to cause no harm...  world could not possibly go so far astray from They, the meat eaters just didn't think things through... They never had the experiences I had that lead me to be... a "nice" vegetarian.
 
Oh, I could be

 
   
   
   

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