Ari Solomon

The Kind Life, Alicia Silverstone's blog, frequently has guests posts. Today's guest post was from Ari Solomon, the founder and owner of A Scent of Scandal. I think this might be one of the most profound things I've ever read about what it means to be vegan and ways to convice others of the same.

"If we're supposed to be eating things like meat, dairy, and eggs, why do we find slaughterhouse footage so disturbing? Certainly no one would ask us to emotionally prepare ourselves before showing a video of people harvesting broccoli, or picking apples. If eating animals and their "by-products" is so natural, what's with our revulsion to blood and gore?"

My reasoning for becoming vegan is leaning more and more towards animal rights because of arguments like this. I don't think anyone has a good rebuttal.

Read the full post here. I LOVE the ending!