Does the opposition to a non-violent future deserve to be heard?
At every stage of a revolution, there is a crucial time to choose love and progress, but how can we do this with the vegan movement when there are still so many non-vegans in positions of power?
As a vegan world is the most integral tool in solving intersectional peace related issues, we need to start discourse about the very real prospect of de-platforming non-vegans, and particularly anti-vegans.
As consciousness expands and knowledge of a vegan future becomes more mainstream, trusting non-vegans and animal abusers has become more difficult for existing vegans and younger generations.
It is more important than ever, that all people in positions of power and authority are conscious, and have the best interests of the majority at heart. This means being vegan and upholding philosophies of non-violence.
Veganism is not only important for the animals, environment, and collective health, but a vegan future would be free of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19, would help biodiversity, heal water systems, reduce climate change and environmental racism, and solve world hunger.
Unfortunately, there are still many non-vegans in positions of power across a multitude of disciplines from politics to social media and the arts. Their casual promotion of a non-vegan lifestyle, which includes violence and oppression to human and non-human animals alike must come to an end.
The de-platforming will happen eventually and hopefully, for their own sake’s, the majority of people in power will become vegan before they lose their jobs as animal abuse and non-veganism is perceived to be as oppressive, if not more oppressive than the existing hierarchical supremacies that already exist.
Deconstructing speciesism is integral to the wider deconstruction of other oppressions including but not limited to misogyny, ableism, violence based on gender and sex, racism and LGBTQ+ rights.
PETA is often critiqued for the tone and boldness of their activism, but we also know that psychologically, people need differing approaches for an impact to be made. There is often too much focus on the nuances of vegan activism, and not enough focus on the atrocities of your average non-vegan.
Perhaps fear is indeed required to inspire love.
The shortcut to world peace is a basic philosophy of love and kindness. If we teach people to embrace the spiritual essence of love energy and non-violence, a world with love which would inherently be vegan and not exploit any beings, would result in us solving the crisis of violence and world hunger, environmental crisis, water systems, global warming, violence in wars which would be eradicated, compassion and sentience would grow and we would manifest a reality much closer to utopia. Ending speciesism will help deconstruct systemic and individual racism. Ending animal exploitation will also stop the chances of further zoonotic diseases like COVID-19.
Choose love, NEO 10Y