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50 years from now, veganism will be normal.

50 years from now, being vegan will be so easy and accessible that it will be completely natural for most people to eat mainly plant-based.

50 years from now, the impact animal products have on the environment, our health and our wallets will be a much bigger obstacle than buying vegan products.

50 years from now, most people will recognize the pain we have inflicted on our neighbours.

50 years from now. im sure of it.

just a bit longer.

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do you use a certain psychology to encourage people to go vegan?

whenever I talk to people about it I tend to get emotional which I know is not good because if someone feels like they're being attacked they're not likely to listen

I need to be more patient but I don't know what actually works

I wouldn’t say I use any particular psychological strategy, and I think that people pick up on it when you are doing that. I think that as soon as you start thinking of it as ‘advocacy’ or worse, as a debate, people see through it and it comes off as inauthentic. Nobody changes their personal views when they think they’re in a debate; they just try to win the argument and become more entrenched in their position in the meantime.

That said, being aware of what the psychology of meat eating actually is can be really helpful in these conversations. Melanie Joy is an excellent source for this, she has a few talks on YouTube, but is recommend her book “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows.” You won’t get any strategies out of it, but having an appreciation of how carnism works psychologically is very helpful when you’re advocating.

Mostly though, I just think of it as an ordinary human conversation. I try to show genuine interest in their views, and I don’t approach it on the assumption that they’re definitely wrong and I now need to show them why. If we’ve gotten into the conversation I’ll ask them why they eat animal products, how they feel about the cruelty involved, if they’ve ever tried to go veggie, what are the barriers for them etc.

Crucially, I try to meet them where they’re at rather than convince them of anything new. Most people already believe that eating animals is cruel, or at least that how we do it in our society is cruel. That’s a really strong shared belief that you can use to build consensus, so start with what you agree on. Most people just don’t make the connection between what they buy and eat, and the cruelty it funds - drawing that line is where we come in.

Getting emotional is more than understandable, and frankly it is the appropriate response when faced with the overwhelming cruelty of animal agriculture. Unfortunately though, it tends to end all possibility of genuine engagement with the conversation. Some people really respond to angry activism, but anger or tears in a one to one conversation seldom leads anywhere good.

I find that it helps to take the pressure off yourself by managing your expectations. This may sound like an odd thing for a vegan advocate to say, but it is not your responsibility, nor is it even within your power most of the time, to convert someone to veganism on the spot. Their consumption of animals is not your fault, and them continuing to do so after your conversation is not your burden.

All you can do is talk to people, make the argument and hope that they’re ready to take the information on board. I can count on one hand the number of times someone has told me I turned them began based on a conversation, but I know for a fact that I’ve planted seeds that grew months or even years later. That’s all we can really hope for, and the sad reality is that most of the time we will fail. Knowing that going in can help temper your emotions, knowing that the most you’ll get out of it is a productive conversation that makes someone think and challenge their own assumptions a little bit.

I’m sure you’re doing what you can, anon, and that has to be enough. Don’t best yourself up if you get a bit emotional during these conversations, you can just treat it as learning and try to avoid it the next time. But equally, understand that your emotional response to this topic speaks well of you, it is just better if you can control it when you’re trying to have productive conversations about animal rights.

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It was the cat

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Making our own veggie stock from veggie scraps

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Scotland by Gavin Hardcastle (www.fototripper.com)

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Day 1) of seemingly innocent items that are shockingly not vegan:

White sugar contains bone char in order to obtain the appealing white color. For a vegan alternative, go with sugar in the raw.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

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0 x 20 = 0

Thank you anonymous shit poster for volunteering to go vegan too! Rather than trying to eat 20 cows which would kill you from obesity or heart attack, try learning basic math first. Did you know the device you're using to troll has a calculator? You might try it one day. Maybe one day you'll realize we're but your enemy by simply trying to do no harm to all.

for every animal you don't eat, i eat 20

Unless you are specifically going out and hunting down animals yourself, this is literally not how it works.

That said, you know this isn't really the 'gotcha' you think it is, right?

Choosing to be more violent isn't a good solution for anything, but it's especially whack if your only reason is to try and spite a stranger on the internet.

You might want to do some soul searching to figure out why you're so angry and full of hate.

I promise there's better ways to live. ❤

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Seeing people argue about painless slaughter methods on my dash... Yall idfc if they get a jolt of bliss injected into them,. at the end of the day you're still killing billions of creatures. It being "painless" is to placate consumers into feeling better about it