Vegan education does it all – and all at the one time. For our fellow animals to ever be liberated, we need a cultural revolution. The pioneers of the vegan social movement understood that. Vegan education achieves the aims of multiple single-issue pressure campaigns all at once. Vegans do not go to animal circuses, or tracks where our fellow animals are forced to race, or go to zoos. They oppose vivisection and hunting as well as every form of the ‘farming’ of our fellow animals. We need a cultural revolution – and this requires more advocates willing to dedicate themselves fully to vegan education.
ROGER YATES: This is an invitation to vegan activists to get a divorce from mainstream animal advocacy! This is also merely a suggestion – I do not pretend to have the power to tell other vegans what to do – nor do I have that right. However, I do not believe that all advocacy is equal; I don’t think that all advocacy is equally worthwhile and effective – and therefore to be encouraged.
I see vegans identify one or two serious issues within veganism. The main complaint I hear the most is that, of all the people who self-identify as vegan, only a small fraction of them take part in advocacy or activism [1]. The second issue seems to be that, of all the people who do take part in advocacy and activism, only a percentage engage in what I’m going to call ‘vegan outreach’ or ‘vegan education.’ By vegan outreach or vegan education, I mean things like The Earthlings Experience, We the Free and, in Ireland, what The Vegan Information Project get up to, Go Vegan World, and the street outreach of Sentient Rights Ireland.
These are grassroots initiatives that concentrate exclusively on one thing: the promotion of vegan philosophy. They do not engage in single-issues and do not separate out different types of animal use, such as ‘factory farming’ or caged confinement systems. They are consistently abolitionist in their approaches…
In order to increase the amount of vegan education going on – and therefore getting closer to everywhere and all the time – I try to encourage those who will do vegan education to do it all the time – and have veganism as their sole messaging. Personally, I believe this to be a beautiful solution because I’ve always seen vegan education as achieving the aims of multiple single-issue pressure campaigns all at once. Vegans do not go to animal circuses, or tracks where our fellow animals are forced to race, or go to zoos. They oppose vivisection and hunting as well as every form of the ‘farming’ of our fellow animals.
We need a cultural revolution – and this requires more advocates willing to dedicate themselves fully to vegan education. SOURCE
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