It is true that the hardest part about being vegan is knowing the atrocities that go on in the animal agriculture industry and the effects it has on the planet and consumers. Otherwise it is all sunshine and rainbows. Feeling clean, energized, happy, and healthy is a blessing! And there is much to look forward to as a vegan athlete and vegan activist. It won’t be long until the whole world is plant based. I wager we'll see this to be true in less than ten years.
Does anyone remember what supermarkets looked like a decade ago? In a word - boring. These days every supermarket has entire aisles dedicated to organic foods, gluten free goods, local foods, dairy free foods, the list goes on. Consumers have demanded healthier food options and the corporations have supplied. Information is how it all begins. I scratch my head when I think about how it wasn’t until recently that most people didn’t realize the food you eat affects your health. With media and the internet at our fingertips everybody knows “eating clean” is the way to go.
The final tipping point will be when people realize that “eating clean” means eating plants. Believe it or not some people define eating bacon and eggs, a two ingredient meal as “clean”. A chickens period and the blubber of a pig is clean? But I digress! My point is, people are turning to a plant based diet everyday at a very fast rate. This is reflected in the animal agriculture industry as they desperately attempt to suppress information contrary to the myth that “milk is a good source of calcium” and other such stories while also spending a fortune on advertisements to entice people to buy more animal products. Newsflash, once government subsidies are no longer enforced for your cruelty, you’re going to go under in a heartbeat. And this will happen any day now. In the age of information, it won’t be long until the right person comes across the truth at the right place at the right time.
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