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Animal Abuse — What YOU Can Do
A Personal Appeal To Help End This Cruelty
Ask almost anyone what they think about animal abuse and they will tell you they think it’s terrible. Everyone is against cruelty and very few of us enjoy seeing animals suffer.
But ask almost anyone why they’re not vegan, and they will start parroting off a load of excuses in a pathetic attempt to justify their continued funding of the very cruelty and abuse they purport to be against.
When I went vegan 35 years ago, hardly anyone even knew what the word meant — you certainly didn’t have all these thousands of vegan products in every supermarket. If you went out for a meal you had to speak with the chef directly in the hope that they could make you something without animal products. And if you were hoping for a vegan takeaway you could pretty much forget it.
Nowadays, every other food establishment has a vegan menu, shops sell a massive range of products with ‘Vegan’ plastered all over them and virtually everyone is familiar with the term. Famous athletes have been proving for many years now that you don’t need animal products to be healthy, fit and strong — in fact, in many ways, plant-based food is healthier.
So there really is no excuse for anyone in this culture to continue eating meat, dairy or eggs and by…
