Perhaps it could be said that there are two types of people in the world - there are those who are driven by a concern for the welfare, the wellbeing and the suffering of others... then there are those who are concerned primarily with their own selfish desires.
You came to this blog post because you saw the title: "WARNING: Eating This Food Means Certain Death!" and, understandably, you wanted to find out how to avoid certain death. Death, after all, is generally thought of as the ultimate disaster, the worst thing that can happen to us or our loved ones. Sure, there are times when someone is in extreme, inescapable suffering and death seems like a blessed release, but generally speaking, death is the worst case scenario. So everyone came to this post because they wanted to find out how to avoid death... now there are those who will leave as soon as they realise that the death I'm helping them avoid is not their own death but someone else's. There are those who, once they realise what I'm talking about, will say, "Wow. That is so obvious but I never thought about it that way before... what can I do to avoid this terrible food?" and there are those who will shrug and close the page immediately. Because the food I'm talking about, of course, is meat... animal flesh, the bloody muscle tissue of once-living, breathing, sentient beings who wanted to live as much as you do. But before you close the page, please give me a moment more of your precious time. Please, put aside briefly the force of habit that compels you to go on day after day unthinkingly eating a food which has caused untold suffering in order to be on your plate and reflect for a moment that taking someone's life is a terrible thing. Inflicting terror and agony on that individual before taking their life, especially when that individual is innocent of any crime, has never harmed or threatened anyone, is inexcusable and yet, time and time again, when challenged on it, people churn out the same tired old lines in a feeble attempt to justify paying for these atrocities. They say things like, "It's always happened... it's nature... animals eat other animals" as if these excuses have anything at all to do with morality. I mean, the fact that something has always happened or the fact that animals do something doesn't make it moral. We don't consider rape to be a moral act because it's always happened or infanticide to be ethical simply because other animals do it! People even try to argue that they need to eat meat for health and nutrition but in this day and age - it's 2021 for God's sake - I find it hard to believe that anyone can still churn out such nonsense when so many of the world's top athletes and bodybuilders all over the world are vegan. Not only does science prove we don't need animal products to survive, but there are so many living examples that prove this to be the case - myself included. So there is only one inescapable fact - continuing to eat meat is perhaps the ultimate act of selfishness. Please put your preferences, your habits, aside - at least temporarily - and try living for just a few weeks without eating any animal products and see how you feel. A fantastic place to start is Challenge22.com where you'll get tons of support and guidance, recipes, tips, videos, motivation - even a personal nutritionist if you require one - and it's 100% free! |