We can build a more peaceful and healthy world right now, so let’s start eating for the future we want today. A more compassionate world is just a meal away. ~ Zoe Weil
Zoe at age 16 with her friend Wooly Baba
Zoe Weil, founder of the Institute for Humane Education, wrote a thought-provoking essay that raises an important question that radiates into many others [see If You Love Pets, Why Do You Eat Pigs?]. It made me come to realize, once again, that choosing a plant-based diet—a vegan ethic—isn't radical but rather an intelligent personal choice that has wide-ranging positive effects including our health and well-being and the health of our planet.
Zoe is correct when she writes, "Our relationship with animals is full of contradictions," and one of her underlying messages asks us to consider how we deal with the cognitive dissonance associated with treating companion animals in far more compassionate ways than so-called food animals. She also correctly notes, "Vegan diets are easier than ever, and we can speed the process of building a more compassionate world."
Here are some of the issues at hand
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