- Joined
- Jan 3, 2016
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- Vegetarian
Last week I was in a room packed with people that want to stop factory farming, but this wasn’t an animal rights meeting, and it wasn’t a vegan food festival : it was a small village in England filled with local residents, and to me, that is what winning looks like.
When I first joined the animal movement by going vegetarian 15 years ago there was a purist streak running through it. Joined the meeting, but you still wear leather shoes?! No thanks mate, we don’t need your help. Did you go vegan, but for health reasons?! You’re basically an animal abuser. Think we should end animal farming, but you’re motivated by the climate, well jog on because this is not the place for you. I repeatedly saw keen and dedicated people being excluded from the movement for various purist reasons. Thankfully, this is now becoming a thing of the past.
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The above was not written by me, but taken from the Substack of Animal Rising (activist organization) in the UK. If you want to read the rest of the post, you can click below:
animalrising.substack.com
When I first joined the animal movement by going vegetarian 15 years ago there was a purist streak running through it. Joined the meeting, but you still wear leather shoes?! No thanks mate, we don’t need your help. Did you go vegan, but for health reasons?! You’re basically an animal abuser. Think we should end animal farming, but you’re motivated by the climate, well jog on because this is not the place for you. I repeatedly saw keen and dedicated people being excluded from the movement for various purist reasons. Thankfully, this is now becoming a thing of the past.
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The above was not written by me, but taken from the Substack of Animal Rising (activist organization) in the UK. If you want to read the rest of the post, you can click below:
Everyday people will be the ones to end factory farming.
A longtime environmental and animal rights campaigner on building grassroots resistance to factory farming across the UK.
animalrising.substack.com
