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From: Avian Mooch (c-67-177-253-239.hsd1.co.comcast.net -67.177.253.239)
Subject: Is it just me, or is the "preaching" thing total bull (NOT VEGAN)?
Date: August 20, 2006 at 9:55 am PST
I'm of two minds on the subject of "vegan preaching": 1. It doesn't exist. The "preachy vegan" stereotype has been made up by
defensive carnists that don't want to change or have the fact that what
they're doing is wrong presented to them, and the vegans hear about this
from the carnist's point of view and assume that there actually is such
thing as a preachy vegan. 2. If it does exist, what's wrong with preaching about something that is
so obviously right (and for that matter, how can anyone think that
"don't do anything to someone else that you wouldn't want done to you"
is in any way "relative morality")?
2a. In reference to #1, "preaching" is not actually, on the vegan's
part, "preaching". It's trying to inform someone, and a lot of vegans
won't talk about their veganism because they'd be seen as "preaching" --
a major loss for the movement.
2b. Almost every vegan I've known has wished that someone had slipped
them a pamphlet, or let them know what veganism was all about. Imagine
-- if we did do this (and rest assured that it would be seen as
preaching by the defensive carnists), how many more vegans would there
be today? Note: this is not to say that every vegan should go out there, guns
blazing (you need to know what kind of human you're up against before
you do that -- choose the strategy to suit the "opponent"!), but instead
to say that shutting up about your veganism for fear of being called
"evangelical" or "preachy" is useless and detrimental to animal rights.
People (human and nonhuman) will be offended by your stance whether you
like it or not, even if you don't talk about it. So why not get out
there and stick a couple of COK's Pork: Another Cruel Meat leaflets onto
some packaged pig flesh at the store? You may be setting someone else on
their path to veganism.
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