{"id":775348,"date":"2024-04-16T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=775348"},"modified":"2024-04-16T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:54:29","slug":"having-it-both-ways-as-an-animal-rights-ethical-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=775348","title":{"rendered":"STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: Having it ‘both’ ways as an animal rights ethical vegan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Can we have it both ways and remain true to our original commitments? The \u2018we love animals\u2019 dog and cat rescuers who serve other animals as food at their fundraisers have it both ways. The vegan food company owners who wear leather or wool have it both ways. The animal rights ethical vegan activists who support, endorse, encourage an ongoing genocide have it both ways. So, it is possible to \u2018having it both ways\u2019. But these examples only serve to justify inconsistent attitudes and actions that diminish the commitments that had been declared with power and clarity.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

VEDA STRAM:<\/strong> Can we have it both ways and remain true to our original commitments? We know it\u2019s possible to have it both ways because we know people who do that. The \u2018we love animals\u2019 dog and cat rescuers who serve other animals at their fundraisers have it both ways. The vegan food company owners who wear leather, fur, silk or wool have it both ways. The rounded-up wild horse adopters who then train their horses to do tricks have it both ways. The self-proclaimed animal rights ethical vegan activists who support, endorse, encourage an ongoing genocide have it both ways.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, it is possible. But these examples of \u2018having it both ways\u2019 clearly demonstrate that they only serve to justify inconsistent and counterproductive attitudes and actions that over time always result in belittling, diminishing or eventually disappearing the original commitments that had been declared with power and clarity…<\/em><\/p>\n

I will continue to work for animal liberation and veganism because I know it will save animals. But more \u2018vegans\u2019 in the world has obviously not resulted in that better world. We will not have a world of human\/animal liberation while too many people believe there are justifications for who can be abused, tortured, murdered and who cannot, or whose suffering we work to end or whose suffering we ignore. That\u2019s what vivisectors and kitty stabbers and rodeo people do.<\/em><\/p>\n

You really cannot have it both ways if you want to fulfill your original, pure commitment and stay true to your personal sense of integrity, wholeness and completeness.<\/em><\/p>\n

You are either for liberation or you\u2019re not.<\/em><\/p>\n

You are either for freedom or you\u2019re not.<\/em><\/p>\n

You are either for fairness or you\u2019re not.<\/em><\/p>\n

You are either for genocide or you\u2019re not.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m for liberation for ALL, everywhere, all the time.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m for being proudly public about my commitments. And I\u2019m not alone! <\/em>SOURCE…<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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