Animal lives have been miserably exploited in the food/research/textile industries. Why be part of it? Why make it part of you?

What would the future be like if everyone became vegan?

 

The Change:

As a vegan of 14 years, I knew my eutopia (true place) would be a vegan world. But I wondered how long it would take. Now it seems funny that I ever had anxiety about if or when it might happen. Now the zoos, ranches, and sanctuaries are commonly funded by donations, 5% - 10% of people's budget, tax deductible as always, contributing to a more valid sense of “loving animals”, something better than flesh abuse. Animals are valued and respected, they are mostly under age 18, though they will live longer, and mostly treated as children in the community. They are kept and cared for like kids. Pretty much every city and town around the world has some sort of animal refuge, or has something under construction.

With “the change”, as it is called, having taken place three years ago, there are many groups that call for increased rights for animals. Voting, health insurance, even driving concerns for some species... the details haven't all been worked out yet. To me, language is the most important concern. There are teams with different focuses, I opt for teaching/learning English, a popular language, and helping those who can to vocalize it. It's tough to know what to do about those, bugs, sponges, so many small things, how to be sensitive enough to communicate with them. So far, even though we're all vegan, even the wolves and sharks who get vegan kibble carted in by rangers, we're just going along day to day, getting used to the change.

Sanctuaries and vegans from way back, have been leading the community in how to meet species-specific nutritional needs and veganize recipes. But no one wants to go back, we are all too precious to keep messing up. We are aware that we were acting like monsters. We feel sorry for how we used to behave. It's funny, it only took seven days... tell a gorilla who's been vegan forever, but there was a week, three years ago, when it really took off. It was a cultural awakening, an ethical system. Somehow it was just one blogger's meme that got shared over and over about not taking advantage of the bodies of animals. It read: .

Animal lives have been miserably exploited in the food/research/textile industries. 

Why be part of it? Why make it part of you?

Everyone saw it, many times. It seems it was translated into every language, it was so simple, but it inspired art, and there was a petition to have a Constitutional amendment. So far that hasn't worked out, but like the E.R.A. of 1923, most people now agree that it is implied in the word “people” that “people” includes all “personalities”, humans and so also other animals. Really, the non-voters, human children, identified with the other animal children and they pushed the revolution quite a bit, where they were able.

Workers, over the past few years, have been transitioning from “breeding”- mostly a problem of pedophilia, and “processing”- death, we try not to be graphic about past indiscretions- to zoo, ranch, and sanctuary operations. Money that used to fuel government meat subsidies and animal research grants now fuel upkeep and longevity. Many go-getters have already completed social service degrees to teach and acculturate non-human animals, and there are many parallels growing with human-child-care and schooling models. Veterinary care's focus is on long healthy lives. By now many religious types have developed “lessons” geared toward animals and the use of eucharists and sacraments are considered gauche, no one is partaking of the “lamb of God”.

The question on most peoples' mind these days, though, is what about minerals and plants? The artist who wrote the change's blog meme also wrote, “all matter is consciousness”. It is gaining popularity, even right now. The main difference is the way and the ethics of how we get more. I say this life is an amusement park, and just smile as I pile things on the merry-go-round of my life, trying to treat things as best as I can, as I nourish, test, and fashion my ride... and hope for the best possible future.

For tips on things to eat as a vegan, or even, as Joel Fuhrman, MD, calls it, "nutritarian", see November 1, 2015 of this blog.

What about a small tax to care for animals?
At http://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title59/Chapter12/59-12-P7.html?v=C59-12-P7_1800010118000101, http://www.renewzap.com/ and http://www.zapisyou.org there is some information about a 1/10th of 1% Salt Lake County, Utah tax that provides for zoos, arts and parks. In my above entry I suggested monies previously allocated to meat subsidies be used for animal care in suitable zoos, ranches, and sanctuaries. Animals need real places to grow and live, be cherished and safely thrive.  What if there was a help for interested individuals and communities to provide for animals by suggesting how to write a tax proposal for cities, counties, states, nations. I think that would be a lovely project for animal life.  I think ideas and language could be handed off to committees of regular people, who can take their desires to their congresses and governments.   A society with animals living and being themselves, whatever we all eat. Thank you, for your good work.

"have been" in place of "are" October 13, 2024.