Persuasion

Tuesday 27th October

We’re in a tricky position as self-appointed advocates for animals, because we assume the right to talk about them on account of the fact that we don’t eat them. That’s a strong position to be in but it doesn’t give us the right to tell people what to eat or expect them to agree with us. Or even to listen to what we have to say.

How we go about persuading people suggests various stages of acceptance, theirs of us and then ours of ourselves.
1. We need to be invited to speak on this subject
2. We need to earn the listener’s respect and interest
3. We need to be convincing and go easy on the moralising

4. We ourselves need to agree with vegan principles
5. Be busily putting them into practice
6. And then becoming an activist by communicating, educating, informing and being sensitive to people’s problems regarding their food addictions and their relationship with animals.