“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” Sir Paul McCartney

Usually I disagree with the kind of shock image campaign that animal right groups go for to try to appeal to the publics compassion. It ruins my day. Quite literally I spend the rest of it upset and moody.

But more every day, week and year I am tired by people, people I know and love, who are otherwise intellectual and understanding making themselves blind to suffering. Without cause people fight any vegetarian or animal rights argument by simply not wanting to know. Ignorance is not bliss it is suffering.

To make people listen you need your facts straight, so I’m on a mission.

I’m currently reading

Meat Market; Animals, Ethics & Money by Eric Marcus,

and on the lookout for more reads. If you know any let me know!

Meat market is not focussed on vegetarianism and so is something I hope I can begin to introduce meat eaters to. It is focussed on ethical farming and provides strong, detailed and graphic arguments against factory farming balanced with the little thought about home truths of organic and free range farms. It is a few years old published in 2005 and based in America which leaves wriggle room for those uncomfortable with the idea of their own involvement in the extreme suffering of animals.

Which is why I’m on the lookout for some more up to date UK books. Again let me know what you’ve read!

I am currently still only half way through the book. The nature of its content has so far made it draining to read and so slow as I go at it in short bursts. But also so useful in keeping myself going with the vegan aims and certainly helpful in conversation as I’d hoped.

No thinking, caring being should look at the suffering of another and actively contribute to it.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
—Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519)

Images here come from the Facebook group Animal Cruelty Exposed

The reason I had to get this off my system today is one typical conversation too far. I was told that the person I’m staying with knows what he likes and doesn’t have time to cook anyway. That’s an excuse for such  brash lack of care. It’s not good enough.