Whomever has spent the pretty money on putting pro-vegan ad posters up at the ferry terminals deserves a huge thank you. As a vegan it gets tiring seeing ad after ad for meat and dairy, perpetuating some of the cruelest forms of animal abuse on this planet. Everyone will tell you it’s wrong to hurt animals…and yet, we hurt animals every time we sit down to eat. In their capacity to suffer, farm animals are no different than our pets. If we love animals, we simply cannot eat them. Thank you for asking the question, why love but eat the other? —Compassionate Vegan
This article appears in Apr 27 – May 3, 2017.
PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO!
You eat way more plants when you eat animals, than when you eat plants directly. For a discussion of the environmental consequences of animal consumption, I invite you to watch the feature-length documentary “Cowspiracy,” available on Netflix.
Actually, plants don’t have feelings. When there is no nervous system, there is no feeling of pain. Plants are not sentient, they are not perceptually aware. And if you believe that plants are sentient, you should be vegan, because it takes way more plants to create 1 lb of meat than it does to just eat the plants directly.
” The Hidden Life of Trees” by Peter Wohlleben
So many eyes are seeing these posters… How can you look at a split pic of a puppy and calf, and not think about those words… “Why Love One and Eat the Other ?’
Stop and think people. Put your compassion and empathy where your mouth is.