Promoting vegan

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This is what I want to do: establish a vegan lifestyle, and when that’s all in place I want to get political - I’m urgent to speed things up on the Animal Rights front.  I want to start a small revolution in my corner of the world.  I’ve gone from a wannabe-vegan to vegan-warrior.  Now I’m ready to take on the world.  And yet this isn’t reality, is it?  Or is it?

           

However passionate we are, we should bear in mind we aren’t seasoned politicians with a tough exterior, ready to rip into adversaries, we’re just ordinary people talking to other ordinary people about something that’s important to us.  And our ‘adversaries’ - let’s not forget they’re sensitive free-willed beings, who will decide things for themselves, no matter what we say or how forcibly we say it.  Once we start actively advocating Animal Rights, it’s hard for us not to get pushy about it, easy for us to forget that people can simply walk away from us.

           

However good we think our ‘vegan’ idea is, it can’t be forced onto people and any of our uninvited contributions will seem like intrusions, even attacks.  We probably aim to simply inform but end up entering other peoples’ private space without their permission, especially when we let off a mild-sounding but heavily judgemental question like, “You don’t still eat meat, do you?”

           

Once our views are ‘fired’ at people they sense they are in the presence of something uncomfortable. They are put off, by us.  They even swear off the ideas we’re promoting, for ever.