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Click to read Sarah's Vegan Speech on Morality, May 2008
Click to read Sarah's story - Dead Fox Walking, July 2008
October 22, 2008
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the world, how best to help it, as I’m sure everyone does. But something has come to my attention. I had a thought the other night to do with God and suffering. I think that this world was meant to suffer, please let me explain this theory.
Is it any coincidence that the best artists and minds through history have become that way through suffering? That people who know what it is to suffer, also have a better understanding of love and the world. Maybe God meant for this world to become a ‘learning’ world. Perhaps this whole place is a test of our own morals and ideas on how the world should be. Of course, if you have the chance you should try and make this world a better place, but you almost certainly won’t succeed. You will at least, have proven yourself as a believer in good to God. You will have set an example for others to follow. If we had no free will, everyone would be the same, and it would be impossible to tell the good souls from the bad souls. People say that the biggest argument against God is that if he was real, he would put a stop to all suffering and pain. But if anything, this is the weakest argument for someone trying to prove that God is not real. It’s the suffering in this world that proves God’s existence. Richer minds come from poorer homes.
As a vegan, I love the world and its animals, and so would do anything to see them safe. But now I realise that there is only so much that I can achieve, that as long as I have my faith, it doesn’t really matter what others believe, because that is their responsibility. If they wish to destroy the earth, it is their choice. I will always try and stop it, try and make them see sense, but I know that I can only make them aware of good, that I can’t actually change them. All of my life, I have depended on myself for my beliefs; it is I who has made myself who I am today, and no one else. People, when I was younger, will have pointed me down the road of Christianity, but it was I who chose to take it in the end. God is all loving, all powerful and all knowing. You can see it in the beauty of the world, hear it in the song of the ocean and feel it in the warmth of the sun. Don’t listen to people who try and manipulate you into believing what they believe, only take on board what they are saying, and if you truly feel that what they say makes sense, then you believe it yourself.
I suppose that I have realised that it’s not right to shout your views down people’s ears, that you introduce your ideas to them, and see if they agree. Love your enemies and your friends, do not blame them for not believing the same as you for we all have different views on this world. In the end, it’s our differences that define us as who we are, but our similarities that bring us together. This world is based on differences.
When you feel as if no one understands you, as if you are all alone, remember that this is a good thing. Idealism is the villain. When you love someone, you love them for their differences, for what makes them who they are, and you shouldn’t try to change that person because then you won’t love them as much as you did before, because you will have changed the person you cared for. I’m rubbish at explaining this, but I hope that you understand.
August 16, 2008
“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach
Socrates
Who knows where this world will be in twenty years or so, who can tell just where the human race will stand? I truly feel that, since there are so many people out there who love the rightful vegan way, and who are willing to die for its cause, that veganism simply cannot die. Just like my love of this world and the animals, it can only grow stronger, since as long as there’s someone to fight for it, it will never die. Pythagoras was the first known man to realize the way of the earth and mankind, in a society that ate animals and killed them for fun. He was the one who actually stood out and let the world know just how wrong it is to murder such wonderful beings for pleasure. As I said in the vegan speech on morality, it was he who started the long road to a perfect world, he who first started the battle with the high oppressors of mankind, and people have been walking that road for over two thousand years, getting ever closer to complete and utter freedom. I’ve added some quotes from a few heroes of mine that tie in with this theme.
“If a man aspires
towards a righteous life,
Albert Schweitzer
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures
St
Francis of Assisi
“Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance.
Cardinal John Henry Newman
All three of these people were passionate in what they believed in, in what they loved. And I am sure that all of them would be appalled at the state of the world today, at the state that humans have put the poor animals in, and at the mess of a world that has come out of two thousand years of supposed ‘civilization’.
Just what is stopping us from saving the animals, and the world? Why are we so slow in trying to help them? It’s because everybody is so set in their ways, that the natural world is no more than a distant idea to them. It’s because selfish humans are ruining our world in the search for land and coal so that they can receive great big, fat pay checks. What do they spend this money on? Yachts and mansions that take up even more space. They eat the animals because they don’t care about the earth so long as they have everything they want from it. Why should they care that the world’s rainforests and forests are quickly disappearing, if their Jacuzzis need fixing, or their porches cleaning. Especially if they’re not going to be around in fifty years or so anyway, to see the effects their selfishness has had on the world. But, maybe that’s not the real problem; maybe the problem is that so many people want to be like this, that they end up hurting the world even more. What glamour is in fame? What richness is there in wealth? What self is in selfishness? If these lives are so wonderful, why do people who have them become lonely? Why do they turn to drink or drugs? Why do they appear on the front covers of cheap magazines looking completely worn out and depressed? Fame, money and possessions are not the path to God; they do not bring true happiness or wisdom. Having a love of shopping is not the same as having a love of God, or animals, or the earth. God has mysterious ways of working, he will show people the way to him but it’s up to them whether or not they take that path. To be truly with God is to understand the ways of his world, and to have a passion for ALL of his creations, including those weaker and more vulnerable than you.
To love people, and love animals, and love the world, is to love God. Throw off the chains and lies of the modern world! Become one with your passion for the world and its animals! Realize your path, and walk it! Find God, and he will always be with you. It’s never too late!
July 18, 2008
Great people have existed throughout time, wonderful people; they have all had a cause to fight for. Many of these people have fought for the animals of the world, the helpless and the fearful. These people have had great influences on my life, none more so than Pythagoras and George Bernard Shaw, both of which abstained from the flesh and the stink of animal murder.
Pythagoras, the father of vegetarianism, has caused so much good in the world; he has created a peaceful side of the human race that does not compose murder and bloodshed in everything they do. George Bernard Shaw was one of the greatest writers this world has ever seen, and he has inspired me to write about veganism and the animals I love with all of my heart.
I can’t imagine not writing for those who can not fight for their lives, as it’s the only weapon I have in this world. The pen is mightier than the slaughterhouse. This is a battle that I can win, one that I mustn’t lose, but I can’t do it alone, everyone needs help. Luckily, this is a battle that has existed for thousands of years and has had some real warriors to fight for it, to stop the incredible massacre that goes on each and every day. I can’t help but get inspired by the simplicity and greatness of everything they said, (and I mean simplicity in that you wonder how people can not understand what they are saying, why they feel that they do not know what they are talking about).
Like Brooke, I too feel as though God has given me a voice to help fight for the animals, and I too intend to use it. I will use it through writing, which I am best at, and try my best to penetrate the minds of meat eaters and extinguish the evil that lies within, that causes them to think death is right. I expect that every vegan feels like this, feels as though they have been selected by God to lead in the war against the meat, dairy and egg industries, and I think that every vegan feels privileged that they have been given this sight.
People in third world countries are starving and dying, and we stand back and watch, unable to do anything right? Well it’s not true; we can help these poor people who have done nothing against the earth or its animals, by going vegan. GM crops are not the answer here, and whoever thinks that they are has obviously not thought it through. I am a vegan, I eat plants, but I am not going to eat plants with fish or animal genes in because they are not vegan. These people would have the one vegan food source wiped out! I would rather starve than eat an animal, whether it’s in the form of meat or vegetable. I know that the good people in the world will not allow this abomination to happen, because if it does, the GM crops will wipe out all of the others and spread like a disease over the face of the earth. There would be no such thing as a vegan, even vegetarian meal. It's unacceptable.
I try my best not to get angry with these horrible people, but it is so hard not to. They have no consideration for the animals or the ethical, moralistic people of the world; all they care about is their precious meat. They go on at us for saying that if they gave up meat and eggs and dairy then there would be enough crops to feed the world three times over, saying that they don’t want to give up meat, and now, they come up with a crazy, deadly scheme to wipe out all natural food and infect the beautiful earth with nasty, disgusting, murder ridden crops to feed the people they’re starving in the first place.
I have a plan this summer to go to the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant nearest to me and to hand out leaflets about the cruelty that goes on in their battery farms. I’ve never done leafleting before but find the whole thing rather exciting, and I hope someday to get more into the activist side of veganism.
Vegans feel hopeless a lot of the time, and that’s because it seems like the whole world is against them. It is a very daunting task we face to try and turn the world right again, but in the end it will be worth it. Imagine seeing sheep grazing in a field and knowing that they are not headed for certain doom. Imagine seeing chickens running through forests, away from the cages of battery farms, and imagine seeing the streets filled with slim, healthy people, some of them eating an apple or strawberries, and all with bright, happy, young smiles on their faces. A picture of veganism. The one thing that you must remember in veganism is that, as long as you are vegan, there will be some good left in the world, some good that will spread because the evil simply can not win against the good, as the devil can not defeat God. That’s another thing, God; he is all loving and will support you through your days. So long as you have compassion, you will have God, and no one can take that away from you.
The people in this world that do not care for the animals are the chefs, the people that kill them and cook them as a profession! These people have no worries whether or not the animals suffer, and if they do it’s only because they taste better if they have a good life. I watch a lot of cooking shows to give me passion and anger, I like to see these people in their work places and know that one day I can stop them from committing the murders that go on in almost every farm and kitchen today. I love the feeling of annoyance and anger surging through my body because it reminds me of how much I care, of how much I love the animals and how I’m desperate to see them happy and free. I see these people standing at their stoves, and I see them hack legs and heads off the poor animals, the creatures whose lives have been stolen from them, and I long to see the animals alive, I long to see the chefs in their place, skin peeled off and heads dislodged so that I can point and laugh at them the way they laugh at an animal’s body. I know it sounds so dark but these people have literally reached into my soul and tortured my very existence with the blood of innocent creatures. Am I not entitled to dream about freedom, for both me and the animals? Believe me, I am not the type to seek revenge, but these chefs just seem to bring out the worst in me. The worst chef by far is either Gordon Ramsey or that Marco chef from Marco’s great British feast, but I’ll talk about them next time. The best chefs in this world are the vegan chefs!
I think that the reason it’s so easy to love animals is because they will never hurt you emotionally, not on purpose, and they will always love you if you are nice to them. People create fear and hurt, not that they can help it all the time, but sometimes they hurt you without thinking about what they’re doing, or without knowing that you can be easily hurt. Animals are important for all sort of reasons, including being friendly companions to humans, and so why do people eat them, and kill them for fur or food? Well, I suppose it’s because they have the power. Humans are the most selfish creatures on the planet, and as long as they’re happy and everything is right with them, then the rest of the creatures in the world don’t matter (not all humans are like this). Humans are content with getting a comfortable life with a spouse, money, house and kids, and so long as they have that, they can carry on with their insignificant lives, oblivious to the disasters that go on in the animal world everyday. Even when they do care about endangered animals and the beautiful rainforests, often it’s just because they want future generations of people to enjoy the animals and world, not because they care about the animal or place in question, and that is just wrong!
Recently I made a decision to switch English A level for philosophy at school, and if they let me then that would be great! I decided that, books are brilliant and I love reading them, but I am just so tired of studying them, I prefer to just read and enjoy them. Whereas for philosophy, it’s the study of ideas in great depth, and it’s something that I am really interested in, mainly because most of my idols throughout history have been vegetarian and have been philosophers, and I really want to become a more moralistic and thoughtful person.
I have decided to try and write a children’s book, something I’ve always wanted to do. I remember as a little girl being read the faraway tree by my mother, and since then I have always thought of fantasy as a brilliant thing. As I said to Brooke in my last email, children are vulnerable to new ideas and we need to teach them what is right and wrong before they get set into bad ways. It’s also the stage where their imaginations are developing and we can’t just throw books about ‘a walk in the park’ at them. This world is getting dumber and dumber and now we don’t even give children any nice books about other worlds and brilliant places, their imaginations will be crying out for something stimulating and we give them no credit. When I was around three or four, I can remember hating all those books with photos or cartoons or animated pictures, I also hated simple stories about going on holiday. But I loved stories like the faraway tree, I loved fantasy. I also loved pictures that were painted and hand drawn to the best detail, and I intend to paint the same. Children are fed lies every day in the form of ground up animal flesh. The ages of three to ten are the ages when they get used to what they eat and are the ages that we need to target with veganism. I know that I was pretty set in my ways before I turned vegan last year, but I know that if my parents had told me how meat was really made and what we were really eating then I would have turned up my nose in disgust. This isn’t some innocent lie such as Father Christmas, this is something that has been responsible for billions of billions of deaths throughout time, something that has enslaved animals and murdered them for the sake of some little piece of meat.
It’s incredible that people expect this appalling situation to continue, that it has been allowed to continue right through to this day. Are people blind? Do they need people to spell out what they are doing to the animals, to the world, to themselves? Obviously they do. I will always fight for the animals, for what I believe and know in my heart to be right. There’s no other way for this world to go, it has to be vegan because otherwise, I fear that everyone is doomed and the world will soon suffer and die. I can’t let that happen. I will always try my best to put what I feel out there into the world, through any means possible, whether it is this wonderful website, or children’s books. I love all vegans and want any new ones to know that veganism will change your life completely; it will make you a better person, one who is more compassionate and loving. Since going vegan I have uncovered a whole other side to myself and now I couldn’t be happier. I’ve found a deep inner happiness that just seems to flow from a fountain of love, of veganism. And I know that it will never die down. Love will never die.
By the way, I hope you like my pictures! They include me and my dog, Ebony.
Fear
Fear affects all of our lives. We all have that little thing that makes us frightened. Whether it is spiders, small spaces, puppets or heights, these fears can not be avoided, but they can be solved; people go into therapy and conquer their phobias. But some fears will always remain, no matter what happens. These include fears of death or being hurt or tormented. These will always be here because no psychiatrist can tell their patients that there is nothing to fear about these things; they have not died, they can not say that pain is not a horrible thing, physically or mentally. Everybody fears something and that’s just how the world goes.
Animals also fear. They fear pain, they fear torment, and they fear humans. Animals can be attacked physically and mentally, and both can have devastating effects on the creature in question. But there is no need for them to fear humans, for they should not have a reason to fear them. Humans have the choice whether or not to make them fear, and it’s whether they take the choice to hurt them or not that reflects on the human themselves.
Most humans take the hurtful path. It’s true. They will eat the animals, paying the meat industry to torment and murder more and more animals every year. They will use milk from cows, paying the dairy industry to enslave female cows and torment and slaughter their babies. They will eat eggs, paying the egg industry to imprison billions of hens and brutally destroy their chicks.
But some people choose a different route, they are the vegans and fruitarians, and they do not wish to see such cruelty inflicted upon their family, the animals of the world. No meat eater can claim that they are cruelty-free, as they all fund the same business that kills and tortures the animals that they eat. Vegetarians are not cruelty-free, as they fund such businesses as the dairy and egg industry, both of which mutilate the cows or chickens raised on their farms. Even some vegans can not claim that they are completely cruelty-free, as they eat crops grown in the waste bought from the farmers of cows and chickens that they torment and kill. Veganic farming is the only cruelty free way of eating.
Animals do not mean to hurt us, so why do we hurt them? We are herbivorous animals that torture and kill billions of other animals every year so as to satisfy our taste buds. Animals do feel. They feel pain, and hurt.
Many people believe that animals are stupid and dumb, that they are incapable of the same emotions as humans. Can animals love, or laugh, or want revenge? Or fear…yes they can fear. Yes they can love. Any pet owner who treats their pets with respect and love will receive the same back, and you can’t tell them that animals don’t love because you can see it in their eyes. My dog Ebony loves me; I can see it when she looks at me. There’s a glimmer of love that reaches out and lets you know just how much animals are capable of. Or, if you’re not convinced by that, what about the love between a mother dog and her pups, or even a mother spider and her spider babies? It’s there whether you’re willing to admit it or not; they would risk their lives to protect their children, and it‘s not because of their instincts (mostly); it‘s because they love their off-spring.
Dogs do laugh, they can also cry. When a dog starts panting, even if she’s not hot, then she is smiling. Often she will smile if you rub her belly, or pat her head, or talk in a funny voice. They are like babies. When a dog cries, she will whine, that is how they cry, howling and whining. Animals do have revenge too; they will become angry for whatever reason and take out their revenge.
People also believe that insects have no ‘characteristics’, that they are all the same mindless robots. This I find quite amusing. After all, most humans are mindless robots; they all believe the same lie about eating meat being healthy or natural for humans, they all idolize the same people, they all want the same life (to be rich and famous) and they believe that a human life is more valuable than an animal life.
If you doubt whether or not insects have characteristics, just look at the research done by David Attenborough. He put a group of spiders under separate bell jars and looked at what happened. Some tried frantically to escape, others took a threatening position and some just curled up in the centre of the jar, too scared and shy to do anything. If these spiders were all mindless robots, remembering that they were all the same species, then surely, they‘d all react the same way. So you can’t say that animals do not feel or hate or that they don’t have any habits or characteristics, because the evidence that they do is far greater than your ideals.
Choose between love and fear. If you are a meat eater or a vegetarian, consider what you’re doing to the animals and choose veganism or fruitarianism, the diets that cause no cruelty whatsoever to the animals. Because animals do not need to be culled for meat or dairy or eggs, they deserve their freedom.
I always loved the idea of an animal rebellion, of animals rebelling against the humans and capturing them. It would serve the human race right for the pain and fear that they have caused the animals through time. People are so self-important. They assume that they have absolute rights over everything. It’s disgusting. As George Bernard Shaw says about the group of aliens landing on earth, if they found that they were as superior to us as we feel we are to other animals, and farmed us in exactly the same way that we farm the animals now, we would not be able to protest due to the sheer hypocrisy of it.
People may argue that ‘we have to eat, and we have to have houses to live in’, I can say then that we can live and be extremely healthy off the nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables, and we can build some houses to live in, but there don’t have to be large cities, or big houses. The countryside is beautiful and natural, yet some people seem to want to live in large, noisy cities, with traffic fumes poisoning the very air that they breathe, such a thing can not be healthy. Villages are pretty and don’t ruin the countryside. The British government seems content with cutting down every bit of forest and covering every bit of countryside with horrible, stinking cities and flats.
Also there’s the issue of the rainforest being cut down, of trees being up-rooted by nasty loggers that are out for all they can get in money. All of these things, man does because he believes that he has the right to do them, because he doesn’t care about the consequences or else would rather just get the good publicity or money. A vast majority of the rainforest is cut down for farm land for cattle. A piece of land with enough nutrients to produce quarter pound of beef, a meal for one human, is enough to produce potatoes to feed twenty humans.
If everyone was vegan, then there would be enough food to feed the whole world ten times over; 90% of all crops go to feed livestock. If there was no livestock to feed, then the amount of crops left over would be enormous, and more than enough to solve world hunger. People need to start thinking about the animals, but they also need to think about those poor people in Africa and poverty-stricken countries that have no food. These are people who would really appreciate veganism, I’m sure.
An animal is wonderful, and mysterious; no one knows what he or she is thinking as they can not convey their thoughts to us, but for that humans call them stupid, for not understanding the human language. But we don’t understand them do we? We don’t know that they don’t communicate with each other; in fact it’s obvious that they do. Dolphins communicate through clicks, whales and birds through song, dogs through barks and sniffs etc. We do not understand them and for that they may call us dumb and stupid.
Just because an animal can not talk does not give us the right to treat it with disrespect, and say that it doesn’t object through words so it’s okay. Babies can’t talk, nor can some mental health patients, but does that make them susceptible to violence and imprisonment? Does that make them any less important to the next man? No. Animals and babies can not talk; in fact animals are generally smarter than babies. Puppies can, at least, hold up their own heads and walk about. Overall, it is unfair and immoral to treat something with disrespect, to imprison or kill it just because it can’t talk. You wouldn’t do it to a baby, so why do it to an animal?
I believe that animals are smarter than we could ever hope to be. I believe that each animal holds its own secret about this world, something that we could never understand. I also believe that this world needs the animals, that they are important for its survival; they each have their own jobs and use in this world, whatever that may be.
Humans, however, steal the land, cut down the rainforest, imprison and kill innocent animals and drink and eat their products, pollute the sea, block out the stars, cover glorious countryside with ugly, large houses and deplete a load of the planet’s nutrients and minerals for themselves. Humans are selfish, vindictive creatures that do not deserve to live on this planet, that do not deserve God’s trust or love, that are so self important, that they ignore all other life forms apart from other humans and that are completely ruining not only this world, but are blocking out other worlds from view with the horrible yellow streetlamps that just have to glare on through every night, all the way through to dawn. Do they sound like suitable guardians of God’s world? I think not.
We need to change; we need to start living our lives, not just for us, but for the other animals that dominate this world, and for the world itself. Animals do feel and fear. In the end, fear is what drives us on. We have fears about everything we do not trust in this world. We fear what will happen if we suddenly stopped all of the bad things that we do, if our routines were taken, because then we feel that our lives have been taken, and we are most of all fearful of that.
I fear that, without a change, the human race can not, must not continue to live in this world. They have filled it so full of war and hate that it’s no longer God’s paradise; its hell on earth. Free the animals and cherish the land you love, because if you don’t, there’s no telling what will happen to you, either in the physical world or the spiritual world.
June 21, 2008
I have been given the opportunity to write a blog for the Gentle World website. This is a very exciting and wonderful thing to do, as I can hopefully help others to open their eyes to the bright light of veganism.
I am a sixteen year old girl (birthday is the 25th of February) and live in England. My name is Sarah Carson, and I became vegan back in November of 2007, but i was vegetarian for a while before that. I have no doubt of the co-relation between eating meat and the unhappiness I used to have every day. They tie in together completely. Now I couldn’t be happier, with a few great friends at Gentle World and Brooke helping me through the long road every vegan faces.
I actually had a dream, as a vegetarian, about veganism, and this dream is continuing right through to this day. It’s what made me become curious about the reasons behind eating dairy and eggs, and what made me search the web one night in November, in search of a vegan website. As I opened page after page of vegetarian websites, I became more and more curious about the whole thing, until finally, I came across a vegan one. Its name is ADAPTT (Animals Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow), and it was written by Gary Yourofsky. I began reading immediately, and within the first five minutes of reading, I had become a vegan.
Gary is my hero, as he cares so much for the animals and their rights, so much that he was spurred on to create his glorious website. I encourage anyone to read his site, and see just how incredibly Gary has arranged his work. Of course, the Gentle World website is an amazing one too, and it has certainly inspired me in many ways. The love and care put into the work that they do is obvious, as you can see in the new and old websites.
When I see people eating meat, I always wonder why they think that it’s right. I know that I used to think that it was right, but that was because I didn’t properly understand where meat came from. It was just put on a plate in front of me. I can’t remember what I thought happened to get it, but I know that I was wrong.
My family has been against the whole thing to start with, and I found it quite hard to get started. I decided that I should slowly go vegan over the period of one month, so I started by giving up eggs and yoghurt. When I was settled without eggs, I gave up cream and ice cream. That was quite easy and I managed to completely abolish dairy and all other animal products from my diet within three weeks.
When I went vegan I felt as though, finally, I was a part of the world, as though I actually fitted in. It was a glorious feeling that just overwhelmed my heart and soul. I’ll never forget it. But almost immediately afterwards I felt a deep anger well up inside me, anger towards the world and what it had become. I’m not talking about nature or the animal world; I’m talking about the human world. I can’t help this feeling. My motivation to change this world will always be for a better future where no animals are killed for human consumption, but a longing to see a better human race will also encourage me. I don’t hate humans, but I do hate that selfish, arrogant side of them that makes them think that they are owners of this world, of every living thing.
My hobbies include writing, reading, drawing/painting and drama (acting). I’m always happiest when I’m writing, because then, I can escape this world, even if it’s just for a few seconds. Have you ever tried to write a story in the hope that you’ll create a better place for your mind to go? It’s wonderful. There is no limit in writing, that’s the beauty of it; it can go on forever if you choose. Other worlds have been created through time by the most inspiring people. These worlds are, more often than not, their escape, their door out of the pain of this world. All of these writers have taken such big risks by publishing the books, because once they’re published, it’s not their world any more, it’s everyone's and they have to share it. They also convey so much of themselves in these books, they present themselves to the whole world, and they’ll be judged for it. In much the same way, vegans are judged for foreseeing a better time in the future. Every vegan has their own world, their own place which they see as perfect. It is always there, even if it’s simply the thought of a world without humans eating meat.
My Dog, Ebony, is my best friend. Vegans always seem to have a certain understanding with animals. Meat eaters do not have the same connection because they eat the animals without need, and therefore do not value animal life. Vegans, mostly, do not eat animals because they care about them, and treat them with respect. This gives vegans special bonds with the animals, and they feel more a part of nature. Ebony is always digging, eating or sleeping. She is the most playful little dog that I have ever met. She is a Cocker Spaniel, and is absolutely beautiful. I love her dearly, and she loves me. We have that understanding.
People always seem to think that vegans are a little bit crazy. This is because they don’t understand just how a vegan feels every day. They feel smothered by the meat eaters and as though they do not belong to the rest of the human world, they feel apart from it, or I do anyway. The key to being a brilliant vegan is to care for the animal creation, to not let yourself be tricked into thinking that humans were meant to eat meat. But vegans are people too, and they need to be heard. If you are a vegan, don’t just sit and think to yourself about veganism, and argue the things you know to you alone. You must argue these things with others, but make sure that you know what you’re arguing about, because you can’t let the meat eaters win. You must convey your feelings about the world to others, or how can you even hope for the world to become good? The only way forward is through peace, and the first step towards peace is through the love and care of all living creatures, including humans and animals. Don’t be discouraged by a violent, murderous world. You have the power to change it. As long as you believe that you can, you can. It’s time for a change. It’s time for the animals to be set free. It’s time for veganism. |
The Bright Light
"When
I went vegan, Sarah Carson
Sarah & Ebony
"Since going vegan
from a fountain of love,
it will never die down.
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