Myth # 10 : " Relax ... You think too much ."
Myth # 10 : " Relax ... You think too much ."
Being vegan is not about " thinking " – It ’ s about caring . Closing your eyes to cruelty doesn ' t make it go away , my Friends . And if being exposed to the cruelty that your choices directly support bothers you , then the place to look is not at the one doing the exposing ...
… The place to look is in the mirror .
Indeed , what would happen if those of us who are morally opposed to injustice & bigotry never stood up to those who own slaves ? – or to those who subjugate women ? – or to those who abuse children ? – or to those who torture dogs or cats or any other beloved household pet ?
Indeed , cruel systems of oppression never change unless people who are decent and moral and just have the courage to take a stand and publicly illuminate their cruelties … It is time for all of us to become those people .
Current status of this Myth : Obliterated Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
" The Holocaust happened because ordinary people chose to ignore the extraordinary oppression and abuse being inflicted on innocents by the Nazis . Millions of people went about their daily lives , knowingly turning a blind eye to the suffering of those they didn ' t relate to … My grandfather often said that this mind-set , whether it manifested itself as the oppression of animals or of people , exemplified the most hideous and dangerous of all racist principles … Like the victims of the Holocaust , animals are rounded up , trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered . Comparisons to the Holocaust are not only appropriate but inescapable because , whether we wish to admit it or not , cows , chickens , pigs and turkeys are just as capable of feeling loneliness , fear , pain , joy and affection as we are . To those who defend the modern-day animal Holocaust by saying that animals are slaughtered for food to give us sustenance , I ask : If the victims of the Third Reich had been eaten , would that have justified their abuse and their murder ? Did the fact that lampshades , soaps and other ‘ useful ’ products were made from their bodies excuse the Holocaust ?" ~ inspired by Stephen R . Dujack
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