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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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We can chose, but people are like that, and they treat vegans like that.
my point is, some animals that are in slaughtering buisnes dont die terible, they die pecefull.
most die in pain, in huge factoryes, witch i am against to! but we cant do nothink about it.
because somone eats every day that stifend meat in mcdonalds and other fast food stores.
but and the salat wont survive, bees die to, with each day. so thatis the question.
on day we will eat each other, what is unthinkable. But yes i am carryed away.
What i wanted to say, I understand you. But the world is an big fucked up place.
and there should be more vegan and vegetarian menues!
and with better quality, i can say for my country it is an living meat eating machine!
The personification of the cow highlights the lack of humanity with which we treat them.
I think you are quite right in regards to your diet being separate from this issue. Something that I have seen quite often is the defense of their way of life by invoking "starving kids in Africa". Why should they care about (whatever) when innocent children suffer, as if by caring what happens to a dumb animal means I don't care about my own species. Then having decided I am a terrible person, they do not have to think about what they do and continue to do what they do. Personally I have found that by being more compassionate to the non-human animals around me, I have more compassion to the human animals I encounter.
I thought I had finished thinking about my choices (I am vegetarian) and the reasons why I chose them. And this has made me think again. Thank you.
...sadly, I have yet to figure out the answer to how vegans can make the connection. I have only made personal progress with friends and coworkers by living as an example -- which I am still very satisfied with.
I don't ask that everyone become vegan; I do ask that they all understand consumption is not a habit, but a decision that they need to make far more consciously, instead of by following social norms.
Anyway -- as to the original concept of the illustration, I am discovering that we, as a society, accept a lot of horrible and (often) needless death to have many aspects of our culture. It's interesting, and I wonder how much culture war crap we could cut through if we were just willing to admit this about our society.
I think some of the gap can be explained by the simple fact that many just do not understand emotional and mental anguish. Physical pain they get, the mental stuff they don't. Nor can they accurately judge another's anguish because they have never had a comparative experience. They just don't know and plenty would rather not know. To look into that abyss frightens the hell out of them because instinctively they know that the abyss does some looking back. It is all rather juvenile. Until people on both sides grow up I'm not sure much can be done, except perhaps living by example and being brave enough to do it even if you fall down sometimes.
I'd say you are doing a fantastic job, given that your artwork and this piece has challenged other people's conceptions. Our culture is permeated with lazy thinking and some of us need a bit of exercise.
In the meantime, I don't really preach my veganism (much). I live by example. And though I was surprised by the response to the mere mention of my veganism (the artwork is not actually about veganism), I'm used to explaining myself to such a degree that I can avoid getting upset. (Not that I didn't used to get upset -- it just took a lot of practice to not do that.)
As for the artwork... thanks for the compliment, but I don't think I've quite reached the level of introspection that I want yet. I'll revisit this idea a few times in my life, I'm sure