Some time ago, walking on the street next to a school, I have heard these words:
“You’re brainwashing our children!”
Investigating what had happened, I realized that it was an outburst of some worried parents towards some members of the Vegan Movement.
These people, through an informative project agreed with the school, had exposed to the students the motivations according to which it would be advisable to choose to live a lifestyle that is more coherent with the principles and the rules to keep a good health.
A vegan lifestyle, which minimizes as much as possible, or better still eliminates, the exploitation of animal species and the environment in which we live.
Taken by the curiosity and surprised by the use of the term “brainwashing” in that context, I investigated on internet and I paused
on the meaning that Wikipedia attributes to it: a control of thought, a psychological plagiarism or a real re-education of the mind.
In practice, certain methods of persuasion are exploited with the only purpose of plagiarizing the minds of others. In other words, brainwashing means:
To ensure that the convictions of a person or of a group of people take root in the minds of other people for personal purposes and consequently cause these people to slowly lose their ability to reason, criticize and listen to themselves.
Well, if you believe it or not, associations, movements and people themselves driven by greater awareness in terms of ethics, health and environment, do exactly the opposite: they try to bring people back to a clear vision of reality and devoid of strange ideas transferred to us for the interests of a few.
Videos showing cows, pigs, sheep exchanging acts of kindness and love while they graze for meadows so incredibly green, rich in vegetation … in a few choice words, are a big mockery!
DO NOT BE INFLUENCED BY THE IMAGES YOU SEE THROUGH TV CHANNELS
OPEN YOUR EYES AND BECOME AWARE OF TRUTH
The sad reality is that these animals live inside slaughterhouses (ie real concentration camps) inside cages in conditions to say the least terrifying.
What is worse, is that these animals live in the awareness that their destiny has already been written … and has been written in a totally disinterested way. These animals know that it will soon be their turn to cross the No Return threshold, beyond those doors.
Looking at them closely, you can see the fear in their eyes!
They will all be slain at any moment and served in pieces as food for the most ferocious living species that has ever existed on this planet: The Human Being!
The man who thinks of owning an animal (a dog, a cat, a horse or any other living species), the man who thinks he can exploit them at will at any time, which he believes to be at the center of the world and the universe, the man who thinks that the slice of meat bought at the supermarket is “his” because he has just paid it at the cash desk with a cash contribution …
It is good that you know that if such a havoc continues to exist it is only for our responsibility. In other words, it is the final consumer who has the power in his hands to change things. It has always been so and it still is today.
I will give you an explanatory example:
If I usually go to the supermarket and my shopping list always shows the chicken breast, it is clear that the supermarket itself will realize, from a statistic made retrospectively, that slice of chicken is part of the “goods” that is most sold. Right?
Now, as the owners of these supermarket chains are not interested in any ethical principle (their interest is aimed almost exclusively at an economic report), it is clear that the supermarket itself will require the same number of chickens to be slaughtered for the next order.
The request, received at the intensive farming of interest, determines a request for new poultry and consequently a new artificial insemination that gives birth to new chicks.
These chicks will then be grown at a supersonic speed (in 40-50 days the small chicken will come to weigh about 2 kg, the big chicken about 3.5 kg), and then be slaughtered.
Following this reasoning, ultimately, who takes responsibility of a market that has taken the direction of the most ruthless and uncontrolled consumerism?
Yet, if it is true that it is our responsibility for what is happening in the global intensive livestock farming, it is equally true that it is our power to change direction, opting for fairer and more aware purchasing criteria.
If at first for a week, then for a month, then for a year … we should avoid buying that slice of chicken at the supermarket, do you think the supermarket would continue to make the same request to intensive farms?
Far from it, every product not sold corresponds to a loss.
And if the demand for new poultry slowly decrease or even no longer arrives, do you think these same companies would continue to carry on their industrial chain?
Obviously not!
If the brief but concise speech that I just made convinced you but you do not really know how to move, I can give you some first indications. Then, as always, I suggest you continue to follow me.
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Good luck and good start of the journey!
Nota: questo articolo ha scopo puramente informativo. Non sostituisce in alcun modo un consulto medico.
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