Feeding Kids Meat is Child Abuse — Change My Mind
Animal rights are not the only rights being abused here…
In my thirty-six years as a vegan, I reckon I must’ve heard just about every excuse under the sun for eating animals and their excretions. I’ve written about some of the commonest excuses that people use in their attempts to justify the unjustifiable, in 10 Reasons NOT To Go Vegan.
I make it clear in that article, in a slightly satirical way, that I’ve yet to hear anyone give a valid reason why they’re not vegan — only poor excuses. In fact, I end that article by stating that the only valid ‘reason’ not to be vegan is that you don’t care about anyone but yourself.
No-one really uses that excuse in real life because no-one wants to be that person. In truth, maybe I was a little harsh in that article. In truth, most people who really take the time to think about the issue actually do care, but they have been so indoctrinated into eating meat, dairy and eggs since infancy that they are literally addicted to it and cannot imagine ever giving it up.
Arguments that being vegan isn’t about ‘giving up’ anything, but is simply about no longer taking what was never yours in the first place, tend to fall on deaf ears when those ears belong to someone who is literally addicted to meat and dairy.
