Aim

Our common aim is profound enough. We need to draw energy from that. Our aim is reached by eating plant-based foods and seeing the connections between the food we boycott and the treatment of ‘food’ animals. This is why we decide to become vegan in the first place; we aim to protect certain values and explore the nature of our own humanity. This is how we stop being ashamed of our complicity with animal exploiting. And from these conclusions we see a role for us to play - to get people talking about animal issues.
As vegans, if we are the sort who want to go around talking and proselytising, we should learn how to do it effectively. The job of public-addressing involves outlining the sequences we go through in the waking-up process. First our attention is caught by seeing how cruelty and animal products go together. Everyone knows the worst abuses with chickens in cages and pigs in sow stalls. Then we start to see how ‘clean’ food leads to a clearing view of world events. If people were vegan animals would be spared, our health improved, world starvation would be a thing of the past and the threat of global warming would be massively reduced. The sequence of one thing leading to the next, from food to good nutrition to plentiful food supply to cleaner farming impact on the environment, shows how the world could benefit from simple plant based food regimes. The omnivore needs to be helped to see these sequences, but for that to happen vegan advocates must speak the truth when proselytising Animal Rights.