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Ely asked for ideas on ways to engage nonvegans who claim to love animals, even though they participate in killing animals every day.  I’m pretty sure everyone’s met someone like this – for instance, I’ll never forget the day that a co-worker saw a bird with a wing problem on the way into the office, and spent the whole morning worrying about this bird, and at lunch had – you guessed it – chicken wings.

I don’t have snappy comebacks for this situation, or at least not ones that will help the situation.  In fact, it’s more about what you don’t say that matters, I think:

Pop quiz: this video quickly covered 3 areas of a topic in 6 minutes. Would it be better to do 3 videos of 3 or 4 minutes each to dig a bit deeper, or is it better as a package? I’ve done it both ways in the past, but would really like some feedback, so let me know in the comments, along with the stuff I asked at the end of the video!

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A question from Joshie today: what do I do when someone offers me something that’s non-vegan?

Note: near the end when I say that I don’t think it’s a problem when someone switches from vegetarian to vegan for business reasons, I mean of course that it’s not really a business problem – we wouldn’t be called Staying Vegan if I didn’t think the vegan to vegetarian shift was a problem!

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The other WORST thing you can think

June 10, 2010

With this being new baby week here at Staying Vegan, we’re buying ourselves a little time by posting a few revised versions of some past newsletters that we think could use a fresh look (or a first look if you haven’t seen it before, since we don’t have a list of archives available.)  The Staying Vegan Newsletter [...]

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