I previously wrote a blog called: Pig Genocide. It was obvious my purpose was to attract attention to the annual barbaric, cold-blooded murder of billions of animals all over the planet for human meat consumption, which I find abhorrent! My wife and I have been vegetarians for over forty years, have not consumed any form of living being in that time. However, we vegetarians consume precisely sourced dairy products, this I admit to.
When we commenced our vegetarian lifestyle the word vegan was not even heard of. It is now in the mainstream of our nutritional intake, which I have nothing against. In fact Gandhi, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, plus other prominent vegetarians, would have been, or still are, proud of how the vegetarian movement has evolved.
Sadly, every form of human behaviour, activity, and belief, creates extremes, and the vegan movement is no exception to that rule. I wish to offer several other forms of extremism before I finalise with extreme veganists:
Politics: Extreme right or left politics offer absolutely no solutions for peace, common values, or equality, for all living creatures! They are extreme, have extreme values which always end up in wars, disasters, conflicts, and human-made catastrophies! Extreme right racism, fascism, populism, nationalism create extreme divides; dare I mention Hitler. Extreme left totalitarianism was a historical disaster costing millions of lives, incarceration of innocent people, separation, and denial of basic human rights, freedom of speech, and movement! One only has to mention Putin, Kim Jong Un, Chinese leaders, to observe these political extremes are still poignant in our so-called modern world! General democracy is corrupt enough, certainly not perfect, and although not being extreme, it is at least a means of keeping extremism under control in many geographical areas of the planet!
Religion: Well one only has to research into history books (or Google) to discover how different forms of religious belief have perpetrated crimes and genocide against believers of a different' God'. Thankfully, in more evolved areas of our planet, such extreme Christian/religious beliefs are becoming extinct. Sadly, in areas of the planet where the muslim religion rules and dictates people's minds, extremism is rife! The US is filled with extreme, radical forms of religious belief infiltrating followers minds and basically brainwashing them.
Nutrition/Drugs: As we all know extreme consumption of alcohol or drugs is deadly, causes bodily harm, and kills! The food we consume has become the subject of extremism divided between meat-eaters, non-meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans. Due to the introduction of 'industrial farming' and extreme meat consumption, a thing not heard of roughly a hundred years ago, the abuse, slaughter, and murder of farm animals has increased globally to satisfy the eating habits of an ever-growing, meat-devouring fraternity. Industrial farming is barbaric and the consequences for those animals suffering at the hands of profit making conglomerates is perverse and unacceptable!
Many younger humans are demanding an end to 'industrial farming methods dairy and meat', a thing with which I am totally in solidarity with. However, as mentioned above, every form of human activity produces extremes! Extreme vegan belief is negative. Non-acceptance of other forms of nutritional intake, even vilifying others who do not share such extreme beliefs, has become abundant among the vegan fraternity where all forms of common logic are ignored for the sake of over emotional, aggressive, negative reactions to others who dare consume meat products, or dairy products. This form of extremism is no solution to the problems pertaining to animal welfare, farming in general, and consumers rights to choose which form of nutrition they prefer.
Just imagine the consequences for correctly run, non-industrial farms, and others involved in agricultural sectors if these extreme ideals were to be turned into reality!! A global economic disaster would occur! There has to be a balance, and this balance can only be achieved if all forms of extreme idealism are turned into common sense, logical beliefs and practices.
I agree with level-headed vegans, who just like me, demand the stop of massacring animals for human meat consumption. We do not need meat products to evolve further. However, I disagree that all forms of dairy consumption should be forbidden and are VILE.
With a massive reduction of meat production, and a continuation of controlled dairy production, non-industrial, under acceptable conditions for milk-providing animals, this would automatically, and dramatically, reduce the numbers of animals needing to be produced for meat production! Pigs for example do not produce milk or dairy products. If we can achieve a total ban on the slaughter of meat-providing animals, this would create at least a balance in our nutritional requirements. The meat produced could then be used in the production of pet-food-products, which many extreme vegans tend to forget as they feed their beloved cats and dogs with meat products!
Environment: A mass reduction, and ban on 'industrial global farming' would enhance the fight to save our globe from approaching environmental disasters, this is a scientific fact. Methane gases produced by mass animal industrial farming is one of the many causes of our rapid progress towards a global environmental disaster!
As for extreme environmental activist groups like 'Stop Oil! Maybe they should all sit down in their homes, after driving home after their protests in buses, trains, E cars, or whatever, turn on the electric light switch, cooking appliances, central heating, and wonder where the energy is all coming from! It is impossible to provide enough energy for all households all over the planet through wind and sun energy alone, that is Utopia! Moreover, E Cars, E Vehicles all require lithium batteries! So what the hell do we do with them when they conk out?? In addition, solar panels die after 20 to 25 years, has anybody an idea how to recycle them? Wind turbines have bisphenol in their system a most toxic fluid, and modern heat pumps driving central heating systems contain poisonous per-and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds.
Meaning, nothing is perfect, and extremes, radical ideals certainly do not help the human race to find solutions for all of the problems we are confronted with!
Final note: All forms of extreme belief and ideals have never solved global problems, in fact, they cause division, conflict, war, death. We are all so different and represent our different opinions. These diverse opinions must allow us to accept that we are all different, and all have differing opinions, which is the most important step to global understanding and unification, NEVER EXTREMES!
I GUESS THIS COMMENT SUMS UP THE WAY WE SHOULD BEHAVE WHILST VOICING OUR OPINIONS. HOWEVER, 'HATE' IS AN EXTREME WORD, I WOULD PREFER DISLIKE AND ACCEPT..
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