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Vegan or not, true compassion extends to animals and people alike

By Karen Scott Leave a Comment

Image of Radha and KrishnaOne of the many accusations frequently levelled at vegans is how intolerant they are towards people who choose to eat meat and people who behave cruelly towards animals.

I’ve personally encountered interactions just like this.

For example, I follow articles and social media about animal equality, which support the elimination of animal farming practices and other forms of cruelty towards animals.

And what I’ve repeatedly noticed are vegans imposing guilt on others who comment on the upsetting content of the posts, but who haven’t yet arrived at a decision to stop eating meat.

Instead of influencing these people towards veganism, they end up alienating and embarrassing them.

I feel this is one of the reasons, vegans are often viewed as extremist, unrealistic and, at times, a little flaky.

They’re seldom seen as compassionate because their compassion can appear to be quite biased towards animals.

So why would it be helpful for vegans to change their approach and attitude towards people doing harm to animals?

Because then our love becomes grace-filled and truly unconditional. Continue reading

A vegan life — naturally compassionate

By Karen Scott Leave a Comment

image of a cowChoosing a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle is growing in popularity. More and more people understand the many benefits to be gained from this choice.

Compassion, kindness and peace of mind, as well as improved energy and physical health, to name a few.

Yet conventional thinking considers eating meat to be normal and good for you.

Being vegan, therefore, is often viewed by mainstream thinking to be a radical approach to life.

Few seem to stop to consider the radical nature of factory farming, with its breeding and slaughtering of food animals en masse to turn a buck and satisfy the lust for meat. Continue reading

Being vegan — the harmless way to live

By Karen Scott 2 Comments

Image of lambsI love animals.

I love them in the same way I love trees, mountains, the ocean; all of nature.

And, although I wasn’t a child who fussed or fretted about animals, I would dearly have loved a little cat of my own. But that was really the extent of my interest in pets.

I didn’t feel a need to acquire a menagerie, or possess or pat every animal in sight. I simply appreciated the differences and beauty they offered to my experience of life.

At Easter time, when we traveled to the country to visit family, along the way Dad would point out the lambs that had just been docked or the sheep which had just been shorn.

At these times, I always felt that there was something unnatural and unkind about what had been done to those animals.

They were being shorn as Autumn was arriving.

Of course, I now understand the kindness behind docking — albeit unnatural and imposed.

But my natural, first impression, was an unpleasant sinking feeling and an overwhelming surge of compassion. Especially for the little baby lambs. Continue reading

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