Caution when approaching the omnivore

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Being non-violent isn’t the same as being passive or polite; it’s an approach that is largely untried and untested, which is why it needs to be discussed.

We all know that in this violent world, many of our systems are kept in place by force. As vegan animal activist eventually come to realise, we can’t fight force with force. We have to be more subtle than that.

If enough activists are committed to non-forceful approaches, if we are willing to consider and try them, we’ll see how powerful non-violent action can be.

If there are ways to approach this omnivore mind-set, using less ‘in-yer-face’ methods, as soon as these non-violent approaches begin to work we hope for a snowballing effect. It’s a long shot, accepting that violence in any form is ineffective and putting all our effort into altering attitude, rather than just people’s eating habits. By taking a punt on this ‘truth-force’ approach, we might find it slower, seeing as how we’re a tiny minority dealing with a vast majority, but the results in the end will be more permanent. They’ll have the power of changing attitudes, which in turn will affect shopping habits and the type of products that are then produced.

We can either set fire to fur-farms or explore less destructive ways of exerting a more subtle pressure. I think change will only come about through by helping to change the fundamental attitude to animals - a fashion-change, in fact.