One thing that the current debate regarding the Badger Cull is the fact that people are looking more closely at what they eat. This year alone we have had the horse meat scandal in which answers are not forth coming at present and the continuing wish for many in the farming sector to proceed at all costs with this Mad Cruel and Senseless Badger Cull.
There always was an uneasy truce between vegetarian and Vegan diets. Most pubs and restraints usually provide a vegetarian option in main meals and deserts. However health can sometimes be a more important factor is choosing a plant based diet than animal welfare concerns.
Ten years ago following a Vegan diet was difficult and only the really committed chose to follow that path, but with the more commonly used term ‘plant based’ diet then the desire and ability to give up both meat and dairy seems to sit more comfortably and perhaps shows up the weakness in the vegetarian options.
Don’t get me wrong, I still follow a vegetarian diet, but feel weak that I have so far failed to move over completely to the Vegan diet, but I am sure it’s only a matter of time. It was twenty years ago that I gave up smoking and look where we are today with smoking, barred in most public places.
With the advances in technology and the economies of scale we all need to take stock of what we are prepared to accept in our life style. The science says we need to eat more plant food but the science also says that we can have genetic modified animals that don’t feel pain so we can have even meat more on death row!
One thing for sure is the need to move more to a plant based diet and they are many ways to achieve this, I did hear the term VB6 and it made me laugh. It means Vegan Before Six, which means that, yes sure have you meat if you must but during the day try and be be plant based.
The welfare of the animals, the environment, our moral position and the science state we need to change and to have a polarised smoker/non-smoker or round earth/flat earth debate is not helpful at present as there is a lot at stake.
It is so easy to turn a blind eye and do nothing:-
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
