These doomsayers are the same people who babble on about leather shoes when you tell them you are a vegetarian; as if to say that the fact that you wear dead cows is somehow proof that you are not worthy of expressing a life choice. Clearly this means you are not perfect, and only the perfect can shout loud about anything. Rubbish. It is better in my book to decide that you cannot live without bacon sandwiches and your leather cowboy boots and still ditch the rest of the death wagon. This doesn't make you weak. It means that you are capable of realising that you don't have to be Mother Teresa to make a moral judgement.

Life just isn't always black and white. Stick me on a desert island with a cattle prod, a cow and no other means of food and I may well end up eating beef steak with the best of them. But most of us are simply not in a survival situation. We live in the midst of absolute abundance where our food choices are only limited by our imaginations and the time we choose to spend in pandering to them. We don't need to eat meat. It is a death business that we can easily avoid supporting. The key word being easily. Being a vegetarian is incredibly easy. You can start off by curtailing your meat intake to only when the pain gets too great and the boredom clouds your better judgement. If you lapse then rest assured that you too are human, and that throwing up your hands in defeat is not necessary. Save the Saints for church. You can do something and that is certainly better than nothing.

Copyright - Stuart Brown

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