OK, I get it, finally. For years I’ve rolled my eyes when I saw animal rights ads featuring vegan celebrities (especially once they stopped being vegan) but I’m starting to see the light. After filming yesterday’s video about vegans in business, I can finally see how vegan celebrities are useful in some contexts:
Where are you in that particular belief cycle? Has your opinion changed (in either direction) over time?
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!
Some story’s making the rounds about a vegan who became a former vegan: In the video I say I’m not linking to the story because I don’t care, and that’s not totally true – I care about why people stop being vegan (it’s kind of why I’m here,) but I don’t care about an individual [...]
Hannah left a comment last week where she mentioned working with her school’s cafeteria to get more vegan options, so I asked her to share some of her best tips: Here’s the part I missed in this video: the whole reason I reached out to Hannah in the first place was how she put it, [...]
When a big vegan-themed story breaks in the media, it doesn’t mean we’ve won a victory; it means that we’ve got a small window for dialogue and we need to get to work: There’s an old joke about a guy who prays and prays to win the lottery, and when he finally dies, penniless, he [...]
Hey, it’s the weekend, so let’s wrap up outreach week with the longest Staying Vegan video EVER! OK, 6 minutes isn’t that long, really, and you’ve got the whole weekend to soak it in, but technically, longest ever. Yay. I wanted to wrap the week up with some resources for those of you who want [...]
Since I shot this yesterday, there’ve already been some examples in other comments of “can’t because of X” that wouldn’t work with this strategy, but hey – what about the rest of that time?
OK, the analogy I use in this video is, as they say, “a wee bit off-side,” but I think it makes the point pretty well. When someone says they can’t be vegan because of [insert reason here], it’s really important to remember that they haven’t rejected veganism; they’ve just given you an excuse. Tomorrow, we’re [...]
I strongly believe that there are people who either never go vegan or stop being vegan because they don’t want to do activism, and they’re worried they’re going to have to pose naked for PETA. OK, maybe not so much the second part. Anyway, in case you needed someone to say it out loud, none [...]
I got hit with some ideas that wouldn’t leave my head last night: why is it that every time I think I’m talking about a reason people quit veganism that sounds totally made up to me (they’re based on fact, I promise, they just sound absurd) someone tells me they know someone who did exactly [...]
