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There's an Elephant in the Room blog
November 2017
Why is it that once we find out who these two people
are, why is it that all our common sense flies straight out the window and
we champion the one who has a vested interest in lying to us while vilifying
the one who tells the truth?
We all value honesty. Isn’t it time we recognised it? Be honest. Be vegan.
Imagine you are face to face with two people. They are both keen for you
to see things their way, but there’s a key difference between them.
Person 1
Although you’re not exactly sure how they do it (because they make
absolutely sure you don’t), person 1 makes untold billions of $/£ every
year; spends billions of $/£ on the most skilled marketers money can buy, to
make sure that they manipulate your opinions to see things their way.
In press and on TV, in magazines and every type of media they incessantly
present their products with a slant that makes them seem nice, normal and
very desirable. They suggest that they’re necessary for your health and omit
to mention that so many of the ‘studies‘ that suggest this were commissioned
by themselves. They do this to protect their financial interests; so that
you will keep buying their products, making sure that you continue to spend
billions each year by buying what they sell. Their products are so
normalised that most people are unaware just how insidiously they are being
manipulated.
Person 2
The other person – let’s call them person 2 – has not a single thing to sell
and nothing personal to gain. All they have is truth and sincerity. They
want only to help you to realise the consequences of your actions as a
consumer of the other’s products in the same way that they once did
themselves. All they want is to provide you with truthful information that
will allow you to see that by buying into the business of the other person,
you are completely contradicting everything you think you believe in.
The no-brainer
Well let’s face it – it’s a no-brainer, isn’t it? In every single area of
life and living we learn that someone whose income depends on making sure
their product appeals to consumers is going to tell those consumers WHATEVER
it takes to get them to part with their cash. Truth isn’t even on the
agenda. Open lying is now called ‘spoof advertising‘. That’s life in the
real world. We all know this. There are no scruples in marketing, it’s all
about money.
But let’s look again at these two in front of us. Who are they? Whom do they
represent?
Taking off the masks
The first one, person 1, represents the massive industries that sell us the
desecrated body parts, the breast milk, the eggs, the very lives of our
fellow sentient beings as if they were nothing more than things. They rely
on public ignorance and play on their fears and insecurities.
The other, person 2, represents those whose sole aim is to make known the
truth; to shine a light on the horror, the violence, the terror and the gore
that is hidden behind closed doors as the inevitable consequence of
fulfilling our demands as consumers; that occurs the moment we allow
ourselves to reduce other individuals to resources and commodities. Person 2
seeks to make known the proven fact that every facet of person 1’s industry
is catastrophic for their victims, for the planet and even for our health as
humans. Person 2 represents the billions of land dwelling individuals and
the trillions of aquatic beings who are the innocent, brutalised victims of
person 1.
So my question is this...
Why is it that once we find out who these two people are, why is it that all
our common sense flies straight out the window and we champion the one who
has a vested interest in lying to us while vilifying the one who tells the
truth?
We all value honesty. Isn’t it time we recognised it? Be honest. Be vegan.
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