“If you have a racist friend, now is the time for your friendship to end. Change your views or change your friends…,,
Many people would agree to this song, but only a few would say the same thing about meat eating friends.
Obviously I wouldn’t share a table with a person who tells me that “Jews control the American economy”, then why be friends with someone who believes that factory farms are a necessity? That drinking milk from a cow, who’s children were taken from her to be slaughtered is something we, in this world, must have because this person “really loves cheese”?
We meet new people all the time and choose who to befriend. We should influence our friends and our family. We should have vegan holiday meals and show how easy and fun it is being a vegan, not some sacrifice we must make, cause it really isn’t.
Many new vegans come to the point in which they have to deal with their old meat eating friends and think twice before they make new ones. Should we depart from our old meat eating friends since our views have changed? Or should we have faith that they too, will change? Because it’s not really about whether or not seeing meat on the table bothers us or not, it’s about knowing that this person, which you call your friend, has speciesist views.
So just how tolerant should we be when it comes to speciesism? Sadly enough, I just don’t know.
