Information-day specials

Regarding the enslaved animals, those we eat and make use of, as long as people stick them in this ‘special category’ they maintain a cut-off point, regarding certain animals; they remain The Ultimate Frustration for vegans. Our information falls on deaf ears. We can’t get past it.
But getting angry about it is the LAST thing we need to do. Anger and shouting-at-people is no longer an effective protest tool, not with this issue anyway. The best thing we can do is dump the attitude. It’s not mandatory to show The Vegan Flag all the time, with everyone, and it’s not compulsory to show standard anger when stupid remarks are made.
But isn’t our anger a sign of feeling passionate about something? Isn’t that good? … to hold an opinion strongly enough, to get a bit out of control of ‘good behaviour’ model? That’s my anger and I’m proud to feel this way – that’s how I feel.
Both vegans and omnivores perceive their right-to-be-me similarly – “This is a free country, I can think and say what I like?”
Yep. True. But then again, isn’t our anger always on the very edge of getting personal and disapproving with others? Our favourite vehicle for getting what we want. Anger is real. Is anger not all bad? Yah! anger schmanger. In a much more interesting reality, surely, everything comes down to how the ‘mirror of being with others’ reflects us. It’s our presentation that counts … and maybe that shouldn’t include spewing our emotional guts on people.
The world of communication starts with a variety act, including performing a little, showing off a bit and being good to watch (or be with), etc. Who wants to spend ANY time with a sad-sack or an evangelist? Who wants bad company? People who make you depressed or quarrelsome? [or feel inferior]
In our presentation we can afford to be cuter. All five year olds understand this - being fun and interesting to be with is the name of the game. So … if we can make friends, do a little presenting here and there, try to smile as often as possible, then it’s magic! By hypnotising the ‘Opposition’ with affection (you know, the sort of thing usually reserved for pussy cats), we can ride the stormy seas of Animal Rights whilst building mutual affection.
Effective relationship-building must be done because of perception, namely the Omnivore perception of ‘vegans’ and what they are like. It may not be a perception of untrustworthiness but a ’you’re an idiot” … so we may have to work quite hard to fix that up. But no big deal because effective relationship-building can be done on the trot.
We humans are multi-taskers. We can devise a million thoughts per second each of which may be the start of a whole new world. Between each other we have a great opportunity to find common ground instead of getting off side with each other all the time. Just watch how the ‘wise-ones’ do it, those from the very beginning of life, little kids. They’ve got it down to a fine art. And eventually they always get what they want … whilst of course, all the time, building trust. Precisely the same sort of thing adult to adult.
We adults need to apply the same techniques as small kids, vegans with omnivores, omnivores with vegans, to lead up to Information Day.