Nursery teas

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What confronts us most powerfully today is certainty in the form of omnivore consciousness. There’s a mighty army formed up against the puny vegan push. It’s no wonder they can ignore us, since we appear to have no weaponry worth worrying about. We just seem to be a few nervous advocates on soap boxes calling out to passers-by. And when no one stops to speak to us it puts us in a bad mood. But that doesn’t concern anybody.

What weapons do we have, to fight ‘the good fight’? Perhaps we have one only - that veganism is unarguable. Put to the test it’s what omnivores dread and why they avoid all talk about this subject of animals. If you’re a vegan and if you are ever short of confidence, you should remember how low in confidence the omnivore is, despite there being so many of them.

Our vegan philosophy hangs like the Sword of Damocles over their heads, and probably annoys many of them profoundly that they can’t talk about this subject without sounding foolish. And what’s more, in having to think like the mob it must be quite embarrassing. Any of us likes to see ourselves as normal and yet still as capable of independent thought. As adults, we like to think of ourselves as intelligent and grown up; it’s humiliating to find ourselves still at that stage where we haven’t yet grown out of nursery teas.