“As long as humans continue to be the ruthless destroyer of other beings, we will never know health or peace.
For as long as people massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Indeed, those who sow the seed of murder and pain will never reap joy or love.”
Pythagoras (570 -495 B.C.)
For us humane-beings who believe we care about our environment, nonhuman and human animal rights, and promote Peace on Earth that are not yet Vegan — clearly our cognitive dissonance is unconsciously rearranging the recycled deck chairs on our Titanic!
Cognitive dissonance (CD): The
state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, esp. as
relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
Our Human-Centric CD
We humans excel at denying that we have inconsistent thoughts
(conflicting beliefs) by minimizing the importance of the conflicting
belief that is most disruptive: fears of being different,
inconvenienced, and/or isolation from our herd. Our most glaring example
is that we live in a meat and dairy (MAD) consuming world, and yet
claim to love nonhuman animals!? Clearly, for the majority of our herd,
we do not love all nonhuman animals. We tend to love the ones that we
feel (believe) are attractive or endearing in some way; especially those
who love us back! Human rights and peace activist know this phenomenon
well — we do this with human animals also; especially when we want
something from them!
Environmentalist?
For environmentalist; those who have been paying even the slightest
bit of attention for the last few decades, the current data is
overwhelmingly obvious — beyond our CD of course — that if we are not
Vegan, we are participating in destroying our planet at a level that
exceeds all forms of transportation (planes, trains, cars, ships, etc.).
Driving a hybrid car and changing light-bulbs (now known to contain
mercury resulting in greater environmental destruction than previously
existing bulbs) has been nothing more than eco-green-consumer hype at
its most shameless!
MAD consumption produces over 50% of “the most destructive”
greenhouse gases (methane, nitrous oxide), uses (abuses) 70% of BLM land
in the U.S., and since the 1970′s has been responsible for up to 90% of
rainforest deforestation. Nonhuman animal consumption consumes up to
70% of our world’s agricultural land: on average a nonhuman animal-based
diet uses 7 times more land than a plant-based diet. Waste pollution:
The USDA estimates that nonhuman animal farming produces 335 million
tons of toxic “dry matter” per year in the U.S., and one dairy farm
with 2,500 cows produces as much waste as a city with approximately
411,000 residents. Also, as any aware environmentalist knows, the
devastating ecological effects of our erroneous consumption (we are herbivores) of other beings is accelerating relative to our population growth!
Humanitarian?
Over 40,000 humans die of starvation everyday on our planet, and the
major cause is MAD consumption by CD ridden human herbivores! Untold
millions are displaced from their lands by global MAD production so “a
few” may unconsciously consume their erroneous omnivorous diet: 1 acre
of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes or 250 pounds of meat
(sentient being). MAD diet versus vegan diet: MAD consumption wastes up
to 14-18 times more land, 12-16 times more water, and 17 times more
energy than a Vegan diet. Obviously if our human “herd” ate its natural plant-based diet, we would dramatically decrease — if not eliminate — our “needless” worldwide starvation and malnutrition deaths (populicide)!
Feminist?
For any feminist that cannot see through the MAD hype of consuming
another mother’s milk and feeding on her children’s flesh, or cannot
empathize with her pain and grief concerning the loss of her children,
enslavement, exploitation, and repeated rapes until her murder, must be
suffering greatly from CD. If we cannot feel for these beings, then
maybe for the human mothers and children who are displaced from their
lands to grow crops for nonhuman beings that we insist on consuming to
satiate our erroneous “desire” for MAD.
Let us not placate our CD with stories of “happy meat and dairy”
delusions; these females and their children are every bit as sentient
and deserving of liberation as humans. To continue to finance their
enslavement and exploitation through industries that liberated females
and their consumer dollars have created (women represent 70+ percent of
the consumer dollar spent in most developed nations) would be an even
greater abomination — if possible — because “NOW” we know what
liberation is, and is not; none are truly free until all are free!
Eco-Green Consumer?
For the unaware eco-consumer who has been greenwashed by the
psuedo-eco-industries that want to sell us recycled deck chairs, please
consider a few facts beyond the eco-green-hybrid-hype. Your cow,
chicken, pig, lamb, fish, and dairy eating diet is equivalent to running
your shower — with or without your water-saving-shower-head — 24/7 365
days a year!
Water consumption = Per-Day!
Meat-Centered Diet = 4,000 gallons of water
Vegetarian = 1,200 gallons of water
Vegan = 300 gallons of water
2,500 gallons of water yields – 100 pounds of potatoes, 50 pounds of fruit or 1 pound of meat (sentient being).
The energy wasted for MAD consumption is 15 times greater than growing our natural diet
and eating our plant crops directly. It takes up to 22 pounds of
wheat, soy, grain, corn, etc., to produce 1 pound of sentient being.
Being that “consumer demands” supply; for the future of our planet it is
imperative that we are CD free consumers!
Animal Lover/Activist?
As an animal lover and/or activist the CD phenomenon is especially
obvious concerning saving one while enslaving, exploiting, killing and
consuming other. If you are an activist for wildlife then please
consider the following: “Wildlife Services, a branch of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,
was a major force in eliminating wolf and grizzly bear populations in
the continental United States. Today, the program spends over $100
million annually to kill more than one million animals.” -NRDC. This is just one scenario of the many devastating wildlife mass murders committed in the name of MAD consumption.
For those who focus primarily on loving dogs and cats–who are
forcibly and unnaturally bred and separated from their families for our
companionship–then clearly the need for nonhuman animal companionship is
greater than our compassion and advocacy for the lives of all sentient
beings. If the focus is rescuing those who are no longer “fulfilling
human-centric desires”–while the efforts are admirable–the reality is
somewhat futile if still consuming others; saving dogs and cats while
consuming cows and chickens is CD on a level that only generations of
MAD marketing can breed!
Peace Activist?
“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” -Leo Tolstoy
Chronic Cognitive Disorder!
Clearly, human-beings’ greatest cognitive disorder has been the need
to convince (delude) ourselves that we are logical, compassionate, and
thoughtful beings. While we are certainly “full of thought”, our planet
and ALL her sentient beings’ future, are dependent upon our thoughtful
(logical) “actions”. These actions can only be found in our ability to
confront our inconsistent beliefs (MAD consumption) with facts (Plant-Based Diet), and only then can we call ourselves humane-beings.
Resources:
Please note beyond the
statistics: Vegan Streams always assumes that healthy and informed
humans are acutely aware that to enslave and/or exploit ANY sentient
being, for any reason, is the most grievous act against all humane-kind!
