When I was a young girl I saved a mouse from my cat’s mouth. Ahhhh - what a feeling to save a life! That feeling stuck with me and was probably the first step on my path to becoming vegan. In contrast, an incident where I had no choice but to kill wasps all day left me drained and was a very upsetting feeling.
Someone wrote a comment that my viewing was elitist in my implying that someone might not be considered vegan if they are purchasing meat and animal products to feed their dog (who are metabolically omnivores and can thrive on a balanced plant-based diet). They proceeded to say, Ms. Katz would think I’m not a vegan because I feed mice to my pet snake; and that is what snakes eat. Well they got that right – I don’t find feeding a mouse to a snake a vegan act. Vegans don’t have pet snakes and feed them living mice. Vegans don’t kill and take lives or pay someone else to do that for them.
I saw someone save the life of an insect from drowning in the pool and feel such joy about saving a life, and all the while this person goes out and pays someone else to kill animals for them. They don’t see the correlation. When they are 'real' in their feelings, they receive great joy from saving a life. If they went vegan, they could know that great joy every minute of their life.
When I speak up about veganism (sometimes when people really don’t want to hear it) I know that if they listened to me, I would be saving a life - their life. They would become healthier, both spiritually and physically. They would have greater mental clarity. They would just feel better about themselves because they would know, each step of the way that they are doing something so right – the compassionate and ethically right thing to do. Being Vegan is all about SAVING LIVES!
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