But it is not enough. Bemoaning the extinction of wildlife, oceanlife, coral reefs, deserts, forests, wetlands, praries, jungles and humans is hypocritical and contradictory when one continues to eat meats. True activism and true planetary revolution begins with the fork and the plate. Animals suffer, the planet suffers, human health suffers, our souls suffer from consuming death. This is speciesism.
Murder is murder is murder.
Animals are just as capable of love, compassion, pain and suffering as humans. We do not need to eat dead animals to survive. We will be healthier and create far less toxics and damage far fewer ecosystems all over the planet by going vegetarian and vegan. Enough literature is available in any bookstore anywhere in the western world for us to have easy access to the statistics on global environmental damage caused by the livestock industry. Any person who refuses to acknowledge and accept this as fact , any person who selfishly refuses to abandon their blood food addiction, any person who still believes that it s globally sustainable for humans to continue to eat flesh should be ashamed of themselves.