Consistency leads to fun

Our primary ‘consistency’ is vegan-living, obviously. You can’t be of much use to the animals if you are still abusing them! But the next consistency concerns our proselytising the cause. We need to design our own campaign if we’re going to take on the world, over this one thing.
“No using of animals” – having that as our central aim requires consistency, which means we try to do this important job properly, as thorough, intelligent and kind vegans, powerful advocates and consistent, reliable activists. Each has a mixture of approaches to test out. Here are two main ones:
Some vegans think Animal Rights will be achieved by outwitting the bastards, other vegans think we’d be better off if we healed our relationships (with said bastards). Joined together, both approaches are powerful … as long as neither one is emphasised at the expense of the other.
Outwitting them should be easy (since they aren’t good at justifying animal abuse) but reversing the image we already have, that’s more difficult. As vegans, almost by definition, we take ourselves too seriously and seem to need approval from others, which might have something to do us having fragile egos? But, I think waiting around for recognition from omnivores is probably a waste of time. Organising gigs is not, however, a waste of time.
If we respect others (all of whom are likely to be omnivores) then we can tease them mercilessly, in fact go in with guns blazing, because there’s fun advocating the animals’ case, if only in seeing the bewildered looks on people’s faces when we tell them about it all.