My goal isnât necessarily to turn the whole world vegan; rather, I understand that veganism would be part of the result of a truly enlightened society.
It is hypocritical and illogical to call oneself an animal lover while one continues to gnaw on the flesh of nonhuman animals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. âLoveâ is not abusing and murdering someone because you believe that your needs are greater than theirs. Love is altruistic, and love is everything. Love, rather than express sorrow and gratitude for the sacrifices made to get what one needs, would instead sacrifice oneself to save the other. Maybe it is this notion, etched deep into our minds and rooted up from the most vulnerable of us all, that has allowed violence, wars, and abuse of our fellow mankind to rage on at accelerated speeds.
It is silly to call oneself a feminist while one promotes the exploitation and abuse of the female body through her consumption of the eggs and milk that belonged to another mother, that were meant for another infant. If we took a second to reflect exactly how we vote when we spend our dollars, many of us would be disappointed in ourselves and the things we are actually saying. Money may be valueless in the grand scheme, but it is a measure of how much time we are willing to invest in in something. What are we investing our time in right now?
It is not wise to assume that one is âawakeâ when one cannot even expand their circle of compassion to those who need it most- to the most helpless, to the voiceless, to those whose rights have been infringed upon the most..
It is arrogant and egotistical to assume that evolution has anything to do with our current system of corporate greed, torture, and consumption, or that any of this is natural. âNaturalâ is not being raped and forced to give birth to someone elseâs âdinner.â âNaturalâ is not a baby being ripped away from their mother and raised on antibiotics and fillers so that others may consume the milk that was produced for him/her (that isnât Love, either.). âNaturalâ is not throwing a baby into a grinder for chicken nuggets, because as a male it is useless to the production of Christmas dinner next year. No mother in nature is ever milked to death. No dinner in nature is ever beaten and tortured from its conception âtil its murder. No being in nature would recognize our system of consumption as natural or okay.Â
Even so, to assume that everything as the result of evolution is a positive attribute is a fallacy. To assume that because this system has come to be, we are entitled to take whatever we want and use whomever we please is an even more dangerous fallacy. If this system were an evolutionary peak for human beings, we would not be in the midst of a health crisis, an environmental crisis, a financial crisis. Our ice caps wouldnât be melting, legitimately ânaturalâ species wouldnât be endangered or becoming extinct, our rain forests wouldnât be shrinking, our air would be clean, and so would our bodies. We wouldnât be seeing increased rates of heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and mental health disorders (particularly at younger and younger ages).Â
Our education system leaves much to be desired and our cellphones have connected us to everyone and disconnected us from everything. Violence in the streets is ever more prominent, the fight for women to have control over their own bodies is forging on with more force than ever, the war overseas is growing exponentially. This is not the path of a universal consciousness. And the roots lie buried where we canât see- beginning with the way we are treating our most vulnerable and weak, the ones who are in desperate need of our compassion and protection.
But we arenât listening to them, because âMmm, bacon.â
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