Feeling part of the Animal Rights Movement is just the beginning of the advantages a vegan lifestyle offers. It also helps us to develop the skills we need to communicate compassion, trust and a certain lightness of being, which makes people less afraid of us. And if people don’t fear that we’ll do a Jeckyl and Hyde on them - friendly one minute, hostile the next - it’s our ingrained non-violence that they see. As long as we can maintain that ‘working trust’ with people, we are helping them get ever closer to stage 3, where they were once hostile but are now open to suggestion, and willing to take this subject seriously.
Stage 4 is the first stage of being vegan, remembering how it was to be non vegan. It’s the start of knowing that it works for us and wanting to share that with others. And it’s perhaps the first time of realising how difficult it is to talk about this subject. It’s at this point we gather together some new and convincing arguments – the ones with which we aim to change the world single handed!
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