I think this message alone is somewhat ineffective on meat eaters. I remember back before I was vegan or knew much about the environment, I always felt a sense of fatalistic apathy towards facts like this. It’s like, oh well, what are we going to do?
When they see that “70% of the Amazon has been destroyed to produce meat,” a lot of people don’t make the connection that they could do something about it if they just stopped eating that meat.
People think that it’s normal, that they have to, that it’s essential to good health. That’s what their culture tells them constantly, to hide the facts that meat is bad for us and that there’s nothing normal or natural about the abomination we call our meat production system. So they see something like this and just say “Oh well….”
But you can do something. Right now. Just stop eating meat. That’s it, just stop.
You can do it. You’ll discover plenty of delicious foods you never would have tried otherwise, and as long as you eat a variety of foods you’ll be much healthier. Not only that, but you’ll be doing your part to ensure the deforestation of the Amazon doesn’t keep progressing, and that countless animals don’t keep suffering and dying needlessly.
It’s really simple. The power is in your hands, and in your stomach. Just stop.
Please.
