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Vegan ‘alternatives’ could become illegal Veggie burgers could very soon be rebranded as “veggie discs”, with vegan sausages being renamed “veggie tubes”, under new legislation that is being voted on next week. Plant-based products may not even be allowed to be called 'alternatives', under this new law. So, who exactly is behind this, and what can we do about it?⁣ ⁣ https://proveg.com/uk/stop-the-veggie-burger-ban-petition/

What will we tell them? What will we say, when we are there looking out with future generations at the utter destruction we've caused? What will be our answers to the questions they'll have about how we could ever have let it be so? How could we have chosen to look away and not act? Why didn't we fight with all we had for a better world, where innocent beings were not subject to the cruel whims of our species, a world where animals still exist beyond the cages we keep them in, a world where humanity has a chance, a world where justice and compassion could prosper? The future isn't set. Our actions today determine the course our world takes. So ask yourself the question right now - what kind of future do you want? Act for the animals. Make 2018 a year that will be marked in history as the year that we, more than ever before, fought together for the animals and for the future we already have within us. Live Vegan. For them.

We need to talk about using others. . We need to talk about how as a species we look at others and too often base their worth on what they can do for us. We need to talk about how we have enslaved animals in numbers beyond comprehension and condemned them to lives in which they are treated as commodities and no more. We need to talk about how animal use is animal abuse. To unnecessarily force your will upon an animal is wrong. To take their one, precious life and to force them to do things to serve your desires is immoral, and selfish, and , for the good of all, it must be stopped. In the world we live in now, we have the capacity to stop robbing animals of their freedom and ultimately their lives - so we must stop.

It's really quite simple. Don't use animals. Don't commodify them. Don't hurt them. Don't kill them. Don't eat them. Don't enslave them. Don't encage them. Don't experiment on them. Don't treat them as anything less that the sentient and beautiful beings that they truly are. We need the abolishment of all forms of exploitation of animals, anything less is a disservice to the animals who suffer unfathomably. The world will one day recognise that the using of sentient beings is immoral. You can help bring about that recognition today. Live vegan. 📸: @forliberation

All animals are sentient, unique individuals and humans are capable of truly caring for others beyond our species. Unfortunately, humans choose to cause pain, suffering and death, for frivolous reasons such as taste, tradition, entertainment, fashion etc. It doesn’t matter how cute, intelligent, human-like, or different they seem in our eyes. Like us, they seek to avoid pain and have the same will to survive. They have a rich emotional range and experience life like we do, through our senses, environment and interactions with others. That, in itself, should be sufficient for us to recognise their rights to their own bodies and  lives. Just like we have the right to our own body and life. It doesn't matter if you are eating Dog, Cat, Pig, Cow or Monkey, it's just all the same. It's just your perception and culture. Killing is killing, the species is immaterial. It's time for us to change our speciesist ways. We need to stop thinking of them as just resources, and to start viewing them for who they are: individual sentient beings whose lives deserve to be respected and valued. If you are a non-Vegan, then you are responsible for the planet being nothing more than a massive slaughter house.

Want to live in peace? First, start with what’s on your plate. Peace is a way of life, not a pretty quote or speech. Be the change the Earth needs. Live Vegan.

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