One way to explain Animal Advoacy-Jeanette's Reply!

November 22, 2007

With permission, posted by our member Jeanette Prasiska.

MMjprasifka wrote: I have always said:"It is not necessary for me to take a life in order to further my own"Therefore, why would one do it?---- Margaret Morin wrote: =============An old friend of twenty three years, who is not vegetarian, and I got into the animal rights debate the other day. In anger, she called me an elitist for being a vegetarian and animal advocate. I had to think fast

about how to reply or it our conversation would have degenerated into name calling and I would have accomplished nothing. So, I asked her. "If you lived in the 1940's and you knew the Nazi concentration camps existed, wouldn't you have to try to do something about it? I have to speak out about factory farms." She was silent for a couple of heartbeats and then she said that she thought she might be beginning to understand for the first time why I am doing what I do.Good luck in dealing with your families on Thanksgiving. And, remember, s/he who gets angry first looses. If you have a succinct sentence or two you use to explain animal advocacy, please feel free to post. We may learn from each other. Margaret Get easy, one-click

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