What Would You Say to Convince Someone Else to Stop Eating Meat?

Jim Moore • October 20, 2019

Silence is Golden and So is Active Demonstration

A White Pig

The simplest answer is that I would say nothing. For me, a motivating factor of enjoying a vegan lifestyle is to live as healthfully and joyfully as possible while causing the least suffering possible to those beings with whom I share the earth. Achieving that includes causing the least intentional disruption I can to the life paths of others. I have no interest in being an activist, nor in projecting my path.

That being said, I do enjoy optimizing the potential of being what I have coined to be an “attractivist”. That is to say, to live in a manner that may demonstrate a way that others also wish to enjoy. It is my experience that when people are given the space to do so they move toward an improved life. Having space means being without the stress of being told what they should and should not do. Not contributing to another person’s stress and assuring that my own life is optimized and potentially a model of health and happiness, I believe, enhances the likelihood of those around me to calmly and rationally examine their own choices and experiment with alternatives.

Are my choices better than those of someone else? I can’t say. Are my choices for today better than those I made yesterday? That question, IMHO, is valuable.




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