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Vegans will always have their
work cut out, persuading people to change radically. But for us it’s not just about persuading
reluctant people, it’s also about being useful to them. (Doesn’t sound too patronising?)
I like to think I take people
as they are, even if they don’t want to listen to what I have to say. So, for vegans, whatever it IS that we want to
say mustn’t be full of anger and frustration. Nor can we afford to be thinking aggressive
thoughts towards someone who's being speciesist, or even being plain
offensive. This is not an ego dance
we’re engaged in here, but a performance which must accept whatever the
audience offers.
That performance, the script,
the words I use point to one main thing – the breaking of myths. We need to show people the extent to which
they’ve been mind-manipulated. There are
so many comfortable myths, wrapped in morals, like this one: That it is okay to
make use of animals just as long as we love them. Put this way it looks like
nonsense, but it is attractive nonsense.
And
it becomes a myth.
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