1

The Time of

Veganism is NOWRoger Yates

Dublin VegFest II – Sept 2016

2

Co-founder of TVS

Dorothy (Dot) Watson

3

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

4

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.

5

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

6

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

7

VEGANISM…AS A RADICAL – REVOLUTIONARY

– IDEA

…AS A THREAT & CHALLENGE TO CULTURAL SPECIESISM AND

RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

…IS UNDER ATTACK

8

“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

9

10

“Lacto-vegan”

Vegan-except-for-bacon

“venison”

“roadkill”

(backyard) Eggs

Horse riding

Honey

11

REDUCETARIAN

VEGETARIAN

VEGAN

REDUCETARIANSVEGETARIANS

VEGANS