How Veganism Helps Humanity
In truth, the promulgation of Veganism leads to less suffering and longer lives, for ourselves, our species, and all of the other earth’s inhabitants.
MACKEN MURPHY: ‘Vegans are accused of being misanthropic so often that it’s practically part of the lifestyle. By caring about animals, one inadvertently volunteers to be criticized for failing to care sufficiently about humans. Of course, these critiques aren’t particularly well-grounded: Animal rights proponents are more likely than others to advocate for human rights, vegans score higher on EQ assessments than non-vegans, and brain fMRI research has shown that vegans have stronger neural empathy responses than meat-eaters when presented with images of human suffering. By every available measure, vegans care more about humans than omnivores do.
However, this data misses a far more significant issue with assuming vegans are misanthropes: Going vegan, and persuading others to do the same, is good for humanity. Vegans profoundly reduce human suffering and give our species a better chance to flourish. As strange as it might sound, one can give other animals zero moral consideration and still go vegan for ethical reasons. So long as one possesses some shred of concern for the human species, adopting and advocating a vegan lifestyle is simply the right thing to do.
To many people, especially omnivores, this proposition will sound completely ridiculous. After all, why would someone focused exclusively on the interests of humans want to move towards a vegan world? It might seem counter-intuitive, but it turns out there are many reasons why veganism and humanism go hand-in-hand… It’s understandable to assume that we are in a zero-sum conflict with the rest of the world’s animals. Unfortunately, this erroneous assumption can lead you to imagine that because veganism helps other creatures, it must be bad for humans.
In truth, the promulgation of veganism leads to less suffering and longer lives, for ourselves, our species, and all of earth’s inhabitants. Veganism is merely a partial acknowledgment of life’s most basic facts: None of us want to suffer, and provided we aren’t suffering tremendously, none of us want to die. Though I think the most expansive, inclusive view of our circumstance is the most accurate, you need not care about the fate of other animals to go vegan. You can go vegan just for us’. SOURCE…
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