Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!
Question of the week:
What do you think is the most effective form of vegan activism? Food Not Bomb’s feeding people? Truth Cubes? Shitposting online? Let us know what you think and what you’ve been involved in!
Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!
I don’t think vegan activism is useful at all. At least not the kind that follows the laws of the human supremacist systems we live under - and even then, while effective for a select few individuals, I do not see change coming out of those.
There is no path towards a vegan world to be taken, the best thing to hope for is the utter destruction of all regimes, and the annihilation of human supremacy one way or another. Which is something no individual can bring about, and it probably won’t happen for centuries, so it’s moot.
Might as well make your own reality and surroundings the best they can be. There is naught left to do for us.
You always have a 🔥 perspective. Thank you for sharing.
I have this discussion with my partner on occasion. I find it way harder to believe my individual choices make a difference with respect to climate change but that doesn’t stop me from making better choices, just in case. With veganism I want to believe my choices make a difference because the likely reality that it doesn’t is too depressing to take.
In a similar boat as you. I used to fight people’s thoughts on veganism quite often and often “unprovoked” but stopped doing that a while ago. It’s sad for the animals’ sake but you need to be open to the idea of veganism if you want to convince someone - won’t change someone’s mind if they’re completely stuck in their ways. Choosing to just stay out of it nowadays
I only focus on people that I think are able to make the change, have enough self confidence to stand up for themselves and enough independence to keep them on track. I think veganism is a 1000 year project but I am not as much of a doomer as bee, I think we need dedicated people to make vegansim seem possible and attractive who will be the vanguards of the inheritance of civilization. Abolition of slavery is still a work in progress but it has changed in the past thousand years and the animal of human exploitation of animals will occur on a similar timescale. So for me it is still worth while to not own slaves and not exploit animals and can show others that it is possible.