BiteSizeVegan.org | EVERY Vegan Needs to Hear This! Are You Advocating Cruelty? [SPEECH] @BiteSizeVegan | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Are you advocating cruelty in your vegan activism and outreach? It can feel easier to offer things like "Meatless Mondays" or "humane" alternatives than ask people to go "fully" vegan. But when we take this approach, we're not only doing a disservice to the animals, but also to non-vegans themselves. We're deciding FOR them that they can't handle the full truth. We're deciding FOR them that they can't, or won't, make the decision to go vegan.

In this speech, I address how to ensure we as activists avoid advocating the very things we are fighting against. In addition to covering examples of what NOT to say in our activism, I also touch on some approaches of what TO say—and HOW to say it, as well as ways to remove common barriers that arise when speaking with non-vegans.

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• My speech in Dublin, Ireland:
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— Website: bitesizevegan.org/the-best-we-have-to-offer-how-ireland-exposes-humane-farming

• Learn more about Sandra Higgins' work: youtu.be/HHAdxnli5vk
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This speech was delivered at the Humane Hoax Online Conference: humanehoax.org
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Chapter markers for navigation:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 When increasing accessibility leads to advocating cruelty
02:51 Encouraging reduced animal product consumption (Meat-Free Mondays)
04:36 How encouraging reduction deprives non-vegans of informed choice
06:42 The truth of humane alternatives & welfare regulations
08:14 The impotence of animal welfare bans
10:37 Why animal welfare is not the answer
13:46 When what’s NOT said is the most damaging
15:05 Just a few bad apples? What’s abuse vs. standard practice?
18:46 Calling for "better regulations" leads nowhere
19:13 Never fear new information
20:47 How animal welfare doesn’t work: the journey of cage-free eggs
22:55 This has happened before & will happen again
24:36 Increasing SOME welfare by decreasing OTHER welfare
26:38 So, what SHOULD we say in vegan outreach & activism?
26:52 Create a familiar emotional connection: what if it was your pet?
28:44 Highlight the faulty logic of humane regulations
30:04 Provide an outlet for outrage to sidestep self-blaming
32:23 Eliminate issues of trust in the "messenger"
34: 16 Non-vegans deserve the truth
35:11 In closing...

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