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If we want to advocate for
animals then we must be committed to vegan eating, clothing and commodities. If that isn’t in place we won’t be taken
seriously, but once that is secure and we also appear to be healthy, then
people are likely to consider our diet to be not such a bad idea after all.
But however convincing we are,
there are always going to be those who hold onto old attitudes in order to
avoid making a radical diet change. Among
them are people who insist vegan food isn’t safe, to become convinced that
vegans are foolish to eat that way. And
if that doesn't work, then they'll suspect vegans of having dubious motives, or
that our compassion is not genuine, or that we are lying about what is
happening to the animals. If they, in
their own minds, can dismiss us, it makes us no better than them, and that
means what we are saying can be dismissed.
But there are lots of people
who just don’t care about animals or diets or ethics. Or they may be deliberately ignorant. Or they’re presently making a living out of
the animal industries. As challenging as
that might be for vegans, we can’t waste too much time trying persuade the
unpersuadable. We must move on, without
getting everyone’s approval for everything we do.
If the cause of Animal Rights
isn’t recognised as urgent and essential it will always be left on the backburner.
As vegans we must keep the issues in
high profile. Alongside this, we must
encourage and support a wide variety of cruelty-free commodities to come onto
the market, to make it that much easier for vegan replacements to be found. If many people operate product-boycotts, they
will be instrumental in encouraging businesses to reinvent themselves, in order
to accommodate a new market demand.
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