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So,now we're gonna address the third and what i feel is the most
important reason to go vegan: morality.
Let me make a very quick disclaimer,this video is not about
making you feel like an ***,i'm gonna stick to some of the
core logical fallacies in our collective thinking.
If we can't stand to talk about where animals come from
why can we stand to eat them?
The question of the morality of eating animals is not new.
Non violence leads to the highest ethics,which is the goal
of all evolution.Until we stop harming all other living beings,
we are still savages. Thomas Edison
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer. You have just dined
and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the
graceful distance of miles,there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.William Ralph Inge
in his Outspoken Essays of 1922,said:
"We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and
treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly
that beyond doubt,if they were able to formulate a religion
they would depict the devil in human form"
Peter Singer argued that if a being suffers,there can be
no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration
and indeed,to count it equally
with the like suffering of any other being.
In most modern human societies,we live by the law that
my rights and my choices end where your nose begins.
Yet,we collectively failed to largely extend this
to other non human animals. Gary Yourofsky
says:"It is not your right,based on your traditions,
your customs and your habits,to deny animals
their freedom so you can harm them,enslave them and kill them.
That's not what rights are about,that's injustice."
Think about all the things in human history
that have just been excused because it's the way things are.
.In her book Why we love dogs,eat pigs and wear cows,
Dr Melanie Joy states: "We send
one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another,apparently
for no reason other than that's because the way things are"
Many of us spend long minutes in the isles of the drugstore mulling over
what toothpaste to buy,yet,most of us don't spend any
time at all,thinking about what species of animal we eat and why.
If we choose to support this industry and the best reason we can come up with
is because it's the way things are,clearly something is amiss.
But aren't animals here solely for our use?
At this issue,i like to turn to Alice Walker.
She says:"The animals of the world exist
for their own reasons,they were not made for humans,anymore than
black people were made for white or women created
for men.We get very up in arms about the killing of dolphins
and the eating of dogs in other countries.
Here comparing a pig to a dog,pigs are actually
far more intelligent than any dog breed and they even
outperform 3yo human children.So why is our outrage
over people eating canines when we
continue to eat bovines and porcines?
One of our greatest systematic logical fallacies
is stated by Ruth Harrison,she says:" In fact,if one person
is unkind to an animal,it is considered to be cruelty.
but where a lot of people are unkind to animals,especially
in the name of commerce,the cruelty is condoned
and once large sums of money are at stake,will be defended
to the last by otherwise intelligent people"
Seems that every month,there's a new
scientific study on animal intelligence and everyone's always surprised
by the results,finding out that,hey
animals do think and feel,just like us.
Peter Singer states that :"All arguments to prove man's superiority
cannot shatter this hard fact:
in suffering,the animals are our equals."
Regardless of your race,your sex,your gender
or your species.
Pain
is pain.
Thanks for sticking with me on this one,i know that it was a little rough
and not quite as fun as the previous two,so
in order to have a nice little let down,here is Oobie
being absolutely adorable.