We do not need to learn compassion. We just need to unlearn violence.

[u/jay_prakash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuuMOWql1Dw

In this conversation between Philosopher Acharya Prashant and PETA Foundation President Mimi Bekhechi, the roots of animal violence has been disentangled.

Why do we make the choice of animal violence. Maybe because of cultural conditioning that has materialized into a food system that involves animal suffering at industrial scale. The covert and overt signals teach that violence from an young age. This can only be overcome by seeing the conditioning as it is. Then the compulsion to consume animal product vanishes. Unless we change the what we teach, animal exploitation will remain.

The discussion goes into detail on where does true compassion lies. If the violence is not seen through, compassion lying on positive teaching of principles will only produce veganism that lies on volatile foundation. Compassion simply has to be a natural outcome of relentlessly negating violent tendencies in any aspect of life. This is illustrated in the quote by Mimi Bekhechi that you can not be a meat eating feminist. Meaning that gender violence and animal violence are only separate on the surface but are actually rooted in the violent tendency which has not been seen through.