What is the biggest issue?

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Whether vegan or omnivore, most of us have a stock of well-rehearsed responses to the big issues of the day. We have lots of shock-facts up our sleeves to persuade with. But essentially, advocating for animals is mostly about being confident and not saying more than’s necessary. This is dense information we’re passing on, so we might choose to say little, but what we do say should be sure on facts and figures, so we don’t have to resort to bluff. Background knowledge is essential. It’s the basis of our arguments. We can show empathy, commitment and positive attitude all we like, but it’s our hard background evidence that’s most convincing.

But coming back to the omnivore, who might have to listen in discomfort to what we’re saying. They’re probably having terrible time, visualising what it would be like to ‘go vegan’, and have to deal with so many personal challenges. This is where we decide if vegan-living would present us with a great opportunity or give us a big headache? Question: Are we taking on too much, going vegan?

Crowding in on all these considerations is another question. Is Animal Rights the most important challenge or is there something more important? Is there another Big Issue to be dealt with first? (The omnivore is slippery here. They’d sooner be an environmentalist than have to give up food, anything but that!!)

We need to re-humanise humans. That’s most urgent, the argument being that all else will follow naturally, after that. On the personal front, this could be one of the biggest decisions we ever make. And once made, we can then look at other big issues, all of which need attention. But I don’t think anything BIG can happen, until we stop negating everything good we do, by eating the corpses of murdered animals, three times a day.