Are Vegans Making History?

VEGANS ARE MAKING HISTORY 

by BEING ON THE RIGHT SIDE of a SOCIALLY-ACCEPTED WRONG.

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White Rose Resistance to Hitler; center; Sophie Scholl ~ 1932

During the German Nazi regime - would you have been one of the honest and brave people like Sophie Scholl or the other members of the White Rose resistance to Hitler; who risked their lives to let others know about the ethnic persecution and the mass murdering that was taking place? So very sadly, Sophie Scholl was beheaded at the age of 28 by the Nazi’s for informing fellow citizens about these crimes against humanity. Other citizens helped in a smaller way; like the store owner pictured below. Would you have been someone who went along with the socially-accepted wrongs of that period?

In Germany now, Sophie Scholl is regarded as a hero, a Christian, who actively denounced the Third Reich 

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An advertisement for the selling of slaves

During the time of the legal slave-trade - would you have gone along with the socially-accepted practice of legally owning another person? Or would you have tried to change perceptions of that time period with every breath you took? Would you have worked for the abolition of the slave-trade? Would you have gone along with those around you or would you have been an abolitionist?

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If you lived when women could not vote, would you have been a suffragette campaigning for women’s right to vote? What if you lived when a woman (of Western Civilization) could not receive higher education? What if you lived when women did not receive equal pay for the same job, or at a time when they were the chattel of their father/husband – would you have gone along with the socially accepted sexist custom ~ or ~ be a pioneer of a nondiscriminatory way of living? Would you have been a feminist change-making voice above the crowd or would you have accepted what was socially-accepted of that time period?

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What if you lived when these were the signs of the time?

For Whites Only by order of the Police Department

Rosa Parks; an African-American, arrested for not giving up her seat in the "white section"

March on Washington for Civil Rights

1963 - March on Washington for Civil Rights

Civil Rights March on Washington

If you lived when "Colored” had their own drinking fountain or were ordered by law to sit in separate areas; segregation based on a darker skin tone - in the ‘land of the free’ that is based on the premise of “Justice for All” - would you have gone along with this widely held and socially-accepted injustice? It’s what most others around you were doing, after all. Or would you have been a bright light in the darkness – helping to usher in equal rights for African-Americans?

Martin Luther King
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Would you have protested racism?
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2 child brides forced into marriage to older men, in Yemen

Faiz, 40, and Ghulam, 11, prior to their wedding in rural Afghanistan in 2005.

If you live now in Yemen or rural Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India or another region where children are forced to marry someone 2-4 times their age and forced into having sex as a child, would you break away from the socially-accepted custom of these rural communities? Would you go along with this practice that 51 million child brides around the world today endure? Or would you let the world know and do something about it? Would you speak up about regions of the world where a young girl can’t get education based on her gender, or where women accused of adultery are stoned to death in public? (See the movie 'The Stoning of Syria M; based on a true story.) Children are slaves in the Ivory Coast of Africa harvesting the cocoa beans for the candy bars of children in richer countries – do you go along with a cultural custom if it is wrong or do you oppose that custom? Do you become a reporter and tell the world and try to get help for those oppressed? Do you buy (and therefore support) slavery of children in the Ivory Coast of Africa by purchasing non-fair-trade chocolate? (Here is a list of companies that don't source from the Ivory Coast, so your dollars won't be contributing to child slavery.)

Nujood Ali; a 10 year old Yemen ex-child bride. Younger than 10 years of age, the girl was forced to marry a man more than 3 times her age. After being raped and abused by him, this brave girl, on her own found a lawyer, and successfully filed for divorce and told the world of her ordeal. Thousands of young girls have been forced into marriages in Yemen, an impoverished tribal country.

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If you lived then, or now, or at any time in history; you would have lived with socially-accepted speciesism. The unjust practice of exploiting and persecuting other species of animals - is rampant and plagues humanity. What side of history will you be on? I implore you to take the high road and be on the side of Truth and what is ethical, not what is socially-accepted at the time. What is socially-accepted is often morally repugnant and needs leaders working for the advancement and not the degradation of the human race. Vegans are these leaders, the forerunners who are making history; by challenging the socially-accepted wrong of animal exploitation.

Colombian protesters: "No more Speciesism"

An Australian street demo

Oppressing anyone is wrong.