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Animal Rights/Vegan Activists' Strategies
Advocacy is about fighting for
justice for the victims of nonveganism, fighting for respect for their right
to live free of the persecution of our species. Added to this, there’s a
huge and increasing overlap between animal rights and the unfolding climate
catastrophe. When considering the big picture, it’s not possible to speak of
one without the other anymore. The world we are destroying belongs to our
victims every bit as much as it ever belonged to us.
Photo Credit:
Selene Magnolia
/ Essere Animali / We Animals Media
There are things that we all need to know and remember when we set
out to effectively advocate for the rights of our species’ victims.
- The majority of humans have been indoctrinated into nonveganism from
an early age. They use or pay to use (which is the same thing) the lives
and bodies of others as clothing, transport, ‘entertainment’, food,
laboratory test subjects, ingredients and many other purposes while
scarcely even giving it a thought.
- Most users of lives and bodies have virtually no knowledge of the
realities that turn their victims into disembodied products on their
plates, in their wardrobes and as ingredients in consumer goods. Many
still harbour fuzzy notions of Old Macdonald’s Farm amid bucolic scenes
of sunny fields with the word ‘humane’ hovering in their consciousness.
The same soft focus fantasy applies to all the other nonvegan uses that
are made of lives and bodies – it’s drilled into unchallenging
audiences, beamed out of the pervasive media from cradle to grave.
- Most humans have little knowledge of nutrition and long ago fell for
the lie that eating other individuals is necessary for humans. Even many
health professionals have never looked further than the industry
propaganda that pervades all sources of information to support and
encourage their own personal preferences as well as that of their
patients.
- Most nonvegans don’t want to change. Their habits are long
established, ingrained, supported by propaganda from every screen,
magazine, and fast food joint, and conform to the expectations of their
peer group. To step out of line is mocked and/or frowned upon.
- And finally, the one that none of us can afford to forget – most of
us were once nonvegan. I wasn’t born vegan and I’m not personally
acquainted with anyone who was. This is a double edged sword. It carries
with it a huge burden of guilt, but it also provides insight to a
nonvegan mind. Like me, many of us used to have one.
Including:
- WE OWE THEM
- Words as tools for advocacy
- Less can be more
- Words as wedges
- The perils of talking the same language as exploiters
- Opening the doors for those looking for a get-out
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