Eating Animals is Barbaric — A Reflection on Change

Beloveds,

There is something stirring.

A quiet, undeniable conversation rising within our humanity…asking us to sit with discomfort. to feel what we have avoided. to see what we were never taught to see.

To question what we have normalised. To question what we have inherited. To question what we have participated in, often without ever truly feeling it.

From where I stand, I speak as one who is learning.

As a Seer, I observe the patterns of human emotion, behaviour and conditioning. I witness how we love, how we disconnect, and how we return. I watch evolution unfold through our awareness, through our choices, through our willingness to change.

Love is the air I breathe.

And from this place, I continue to learn.

Not from the lived experience of Black veganism,nor from the ancient traditions of Indigenous cultures—whose relationship with life I honour deeply—but from a place of listening, witnessing, and allowing myself to evolve.

Because there is a difference.

A difference between living in reciprocity with life…and living in systems built upon disconnection from it.

In this modern world, eating animals is no longer about survival.

It is industrial. It is distant. It is unseen.

It is violence made invisible.

And when we truly feel into that…something in us shifts.

Not into judgement.But into awareness.

Writers like Aph Ko bring language to what many are beginning to feel.

In Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters (2017), she writes:

‘Animal is a category that we shove certain bodies into when we want to justify violence against them.’

Let that land.

Because this is not only about animals.

It is about the architecture of domination.The belief that some bodies are here to be used…and others are not.

Black vegan thought does not separate these realities. It recognises the pattern clearly.

And while I do not speak from that lived experience,I listen.And I learn.

And something begins to shift.

Veganism, in this light, is not simply a diet. It is a refusal.

A refusal to participate in harm.A refusal to disconnect from compassion.A refusal to accept that violence is normal.

And when we bring feminism into this space,the pattern becomes even clearer.

Control of bodies.Silencing of voices.Ownership disguised as order.

Across species.Across genders.Across histories.

So the question is no longer… what are we eating?

The question becomes:

What are we participating in?

And more importantly…

Are we willing to change?

Because change does not come through perfection.

It begins in awareness.

In the moment we soften enough to say:‘I did not see this before… but now I do.’

And from there… we choose differently.

We feel.We listen.We act.

We begin to live in a way where compassion is not selective.Where harm is no longer justified.Where we remember our place within life, not above it.

The observer is grounding now.

Spirit in the body. Love in action.

So focus on what you can do now.And do it well. Do it with heart.

So be the change you wish to see.Let’s step forward in action.

Comments are welcome.Let’s be the change together.

Aph Ko, author of Black Veganism from Two Sisters

With All My Love,

Rosa