Last post, probably for a while. I want to finish up by talking about one of the questions I have to ask myself every now and again: Does any of it matter?
After I became a vegetarian, I told one of my good friends about why I had decided to do it. And she said, "Well, I'm glad you think that does something."
She has a point, right? I think this is what stops many of my ethically minded friends from making radical life changes for idealistic moral reasons. Does it really make any difference for one person to stop buying meat? Can our refusal to eat most chocolate really end slavery in another country?
To be honest, I don't know. The machine, so to speak, is overwhelmingly large.
But what I do know is that it definitely doesn't help anything for you to do nothing. I feel that being a vegetarian has allowed me to introduce lots of people to issues within the food industry, or the concept of animal rights. I don't know that I've ever changed anyone's mind. But I think I have gotten some people to broaden their thinking. And, in my opinion, when lots of people start broadening their minds, that is when real change can happen.
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