I have noticed that some animal activist demonize some
people, people who wear fur, vivisectors, hunters, or people with whom they disagree
on tactics. Name calling, demonizing people is counter-productive and not
helpful in efforts to educate the general public. Those actions make us look
mean. How can you possible claim that those thing are good, they don’t
belong in education toolkit.
Let’s take hunters for example, because I have read many
activist posting things against them like death threats etc. By the way it’s immoral
to advocate for anyone’s death. What’s the moral difference between hunters and
other non-vegans? Hunters kill other animals by themselves, other non-vegans
buy animal products in the store. Have you seen a moral difference? There is
none. All non-vegans kill other animals and to separate and demonized one group
because of their methods of acquiring animal products is different drives away
of the main problem, which is animal use.
I know that reading and watching videos about atrocities committed
against other animals makes you mad. It makes me mad too. And I sometimes say
some bad things against people who are doing those things, which I regret
later. After bad words are said I realize that I was wrong because all animal
use requires abuse and I have seen one portion of that abuse and if I focus on
one form of use/abuse, people will think that use is wrong, not all use. In
time I learn to control myself but yet again inconsistent thing are said
sometimes.
Best thing you can do is to channel your anger into
something positive, use it to educate people, to say to them that those awful
things which they see on videos are common practice. And if those awful things are
not done, using other animals is abuse by itself. Other animals are not ours to
use in any way.
