The Animal Rights position

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.
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 and who want to discover dangers in the diet so they can be convinced that vegans are foolish to eat that way, or that they have dubious motives, or that our compassion is not genuine or that we are lying about what is happening to the animals. If they 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, who are deliberately ignorant or they presently make a living from the animal industries and actively influence people to buy animal products and ignore anything connected with animals having rights … and so it goes on. As challenging as that might be, we can’t waste too much time trying persuade the unpersuadable. We must move on without getting everyone’s approval.
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, to maintain this need for consumers to make vital shopping choices each day. Alongside this we need to encourage a wide variety of cruelty-free commodities onto the market, to make it that much easier for replacements to be found. If many people operate product boycotts they will be effective in encouraging businesses to reinvent themselves to accommodate a new market demand.