Changing the menu without dealing with the consumption habits is waiving the chance of significantly changing humans’ point of view, or a resultant of profound ignorance by the activists and non-activists vegans of how sufferingfull plant agriculture really is.
Everything is rotten from the roots. If people would agree to examine things thoroughly, everywhere they’ll look they’ll see pain and suffering. But first they must open their eyes and minds. Currently their psychological repression is unbelievable. Consumerism should be fundamentally criticized, vegan products as well. But the sense of essentiality and meaningfulness, the feeling that there is something they can do about the incomprehensible horrors of the world, that they have something to get up for, where to unload their frustration in a valuable way, effect the way they perceive the world.
They are so desperate for a foothold, that even though it is not hard to realize that veganism isn’t cruelty free, many vegans and more importantly many activists shove it aside, shutting their eyes, ears and common sense to the facts, strengthening the obsessive cling on veganism.
Evidently they succeed very well in convincing each other that vegansim is cruelty free and that’s what’s most frightening. A movement that regularly uses terms like cruelty free living in this world can’t sprout conscious, critical, serious activists.
If any of you haven’t read the article
vegan suffer yet please do so as soon as possible.
The despair share in the veggie hotdog eating contest is obvious. We wrote about despair’s significant role in alike activities and in several issues regarding the movement along the website and I agree that although this event is one of the top helplessness summits, the criticism should be taken further to vegan consumerism as a whole.
Such an acceptation of vegan consumerism as a positive thing reveals there is little hope in the minds of almost all activists. Paradoxically activists who claim they believe animal liberation is possible and none speciesist society is possible act as if they don’t, participating in activities that in the best case create speciesist vegans.
Almost every action of animal liberation activists is in inconsistency with the stand a non-speciesist world would eventually come.
If they were truly convinced it’s possible to overturn the way humans perceive all sentient nonhuman beings then they wouldn’t have spent the little resources they have on almost anything but anti-speciesist activism. There wouldn’t have been so many single issue campaigns, welfare initiatives, no wasting of time in mentioning the health benefits of veganism or scares about global warming. It would have been all about non-speciesism and nothing else.
They can and will argue that the way to non-speciesist world goes through a vegan world, but this claim is strange because the vegan world that will be created using anthropocentric arguments in the best case will be a speciesist vegan world that might end up to be very temporary and of course all the other exploitation systems will continue and I am not only referring to the clothing, experiments and entertainment industries but to each building, road, fence, railway, airplane, ship, oil drill, water pipe line, gas pipe line, power station, cellular antenna, bridge, dam and any new and old concrete facility.
A vegan non-speciesist world won’t liberate the animals from the shackle in the heads of the speciesists only from the plates which is more important for the short term but for the long term as we explained several times in the website and in this forum, it is a very loose and unreliable basis.
But it is a waste of precious time dealing with an idea that is not achievable and won’t achieve a sufferingless world even if it was. If you disagree please read
Why not work hard to make a vegan world?