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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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To deal with the sadness and guilt I felt for not having recognized this sooner, I simply chalked it up to as impractical and impossible to change how things are. This is just how it is, I told myself.
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Greatly appreciate your honesty. It is so rare and I know it's not easy.
It is overwhelming trying to affect social change. I mean, just look at this thread. I hear all this stuff all the time. Literally none of the tactics adopted by carnists in this thread have been new to me except the one dude who babbled about not eating animals who can't read a clock. That actually was a new one.
But I digress. It is empowering to enact personal change. When we take action, we no longer suffer the hopelessness you describe, because we can see the incremental change as it occurs. It would be easy for me to get discouraged when I'm constantly confronted by destructive ignorance and cruel barbs like the guy above debasing himself to make the claim that most people would eat a dog for supper. It would be easy to lose faith in humanity. But I see the best of humanity all the time, too, because I see people evolving, and I see their actions beginning to better align with the goodness in their hearts.
I'd highly recommend you make time to visit a farm animal sanctuary. Seeing these animals outside an agricultural setting is fucking powerful. There is no difference between a cow, a dog, or a pig. Except that, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, pigs have been determined to surpass even dogs in intelligence. Some studies even call them the second most intelligent species on Earth, behind only chimpanzees.