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The Time of
Veganism is NOWRoger Yates
Dublin VegFest II – Sept 2016
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Co-founder of TVS
Dorothy (Dot) Watson
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In a vegan world the creatures would be reintegrated within the balance…of nature as she is in herself. A great and historic wrong, whose effect upon the course of evolution must have been stupendous, would be righted. The idea that his fellow creatures might be used by man for self-interested purposes would be so alien to human thought as to be almost unthinkable. In this light, veganism is not so much welfare as liberation, for the creatures and for the mind and heart of man; not so much an effort to make the present relationship bearable, as an uncompromising recognition that because it is in the main one of master and slave, it has to be abolished before something better and finer can be built.
Leslie Cross (1951) British Vegan Society.
WHAT IS VEGANISM
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In a vegan world the creatures would be reintegrated within the balance…of nature as she is in herself. A great and historic wrong, whose effect upon the course of evolution must have been stupendous, would be righted. The idea that his fellow creatures might be used by man for self-interested purposes would be so alien to human thought as to be almost unthinkable. In this light, veganism is not so much welfare as liberation, for the creatures and for the mind and heart of man; not so much an effort to make the present relationship bearable, as an uncompromising recognition that because it is in the main one of master and slave, it has to be abolished before something better and finer can be built.
Leslie Cross (1951) British Vegan Society.
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The FOCUS of veganism is human relations
with other sentient beings
…but that is not the SCOPE of veganism
The original vegan pioneers (founders of the social movement) saw veganism
as part of the peace movement
and part of the moral evolution of humanity
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For it [veganism] has crystallised as a whole
and not, as are all other such movements,
as an abstraction. Where every other
movement deals with a segment – and
therefore deals directly with practices rather
than with principles – veganism is itself a
principle, from which certain practices
logically flow.Leslie Cross (1951) British Vegan Society
…a justice-for-all philosophy
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VEGANISM…AS A RADICAL – REVOLUTIONARY
– IDEA
…AS A THREAT & CHALLENGE TO CULTURAL SPECIESISM AND
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
…IS UNDER ATTACK
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“THIS RABBIT”
the “Crazy Vegan” Stereotype
would you eat a lump
of animal flesh if paid enough money?
vegans can eat “non-vegan stuff.”
minimise the use of 1. “vegan.” 2. “animal rights.” 3. “anti-speciesism.”
“professionals” and “civilians”
The “vegan
is a scare word”
scare
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“Lacto-vegan”
Vegan-except-for-bacon
“venison”
“roadkill”
(backyard) Eggs
Horse riding
Honey
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REDUCETARIAN
VEGETARIAN
VEGAN
REDUCETARIANSVEGETARIANS
VEGANS