My View On Animal Rights Advocacy

Hey everyone!

I recently found out about the Vegan Festival Brighton and was super eager to check it out as I wanted to find out a little bit more about the scene of vegan style festivals before I started to really promote my website. I’ve made a big blog about my stance on veganism here but to cover some more information, I have been vegan for 90% of my life, due to health concerns primarily. I wasn’t able to eat meat or fish as a baby, never have eaten it. Dairy heightened my allergies and skin problems so I cut it out. I never thought about it from an ethical point of view and again, the Vegan Festival I hoped would bring light to more of these issues.

I have never dismissed people who campaign for animal rights, I’ve actually been more so frustrated with the methodology that’s been dominant in the protesting that has covered the last thirty years and I will explain why. When you are actually going to change someone’s mind, it is absolutely impossible to do so, by shouting at them. I was writing a theory down for Agitprop last week and I came up with this term, appeal to the three, not the four. What I mean by that is that what you need to cause change is to be in the majority. But when you are in a disagreement, it’s always between ten people. There are three people who care passionately for animals, three people who do not care for animals, and four people indifferent. This is what stops this three from making change. Because the four are still the majority.

The problem that I see happen is the three attack the other three with justified vitriol. They’re doing the right thing, but it doesn’t work. The argument remains stagnant. Nothing can be progressed whilst the majority of four, don’t care. Instead of chastising the three, focus on educating the four. And what’s happened in animal welfare is that our crowd of people who are compassionate towards animal welfare are using provocative tactics against the three who do not have compassion. And it’s doing absolutely the opposite of the intention.

To all of those that find this too mathematical, MORE people do not give a shit on your causes, which is why they aren’t fighting with you. The reason shitty people get in power is they get the people who don’t care, onboard to their cause. They aren’t focusing on trying to diminish the opposite view, they’re campaigning to the majority who do not care. That’s how people get in power, they campaign to the regular person who isn’t political about something that’s going on in that present moment + use that to gain leverage. If climate change deniers who wanna sell fracking for a profit spent all day disarming climate change campaigners, they’d never be in power. They spend the time putting out propaganda to the regular people and paying them for their homes or whatever, so they can make money. Those people who just think they’re being offered a generous check are not invested and they are whom hold the majority. We should be focusing on the people indifferent + that’s some tea right there.

It is not smart, it does not achieve the same effect as if we were focusing on the health reasons as to why people should not eat animals, which let me tell you would snap the indifferent four out of a daze. And it only takes one of those four, to tip the scale to your cause and you will then be the majority. That can be applied to any type of situation or debate and I wish people would use that logic because it works ultimately a lot better than what I’ve seen happen in these situations. We need to appeal to people with a tactic that would change their mind, so they’d vote for the things we’d vote for.

That was just to give you my theory - I’m saying I care enough about animals that to get the results we want, no more killing fruitlessly for a greedy society, we need to act smarter. And I was really there to learn. I wanted to know about the trusts that work with sea life, I was really interested to find out about the Sea Shepherds who navigate whales and dolphin out of territories where whaling is legal, I thought they were absolutely terrific and such an amazing group of people. I also learned about the Wildlife focused League Against Cruel Sports as I was talking about the dog fight training?

I used to remember going to play parks when I was a child and seeing the wings had been what I thought, attacked my some sort of woodworm or rubber worm. Apparently what these evil people seem to do is train the animals to grip onto the swings, beat them if they let go and then swing the chain to train them to lock on to another dog. It’s just crazy because I had no idea that was what that was. There was so much insight and information I gained and I can see why people are so passionate. I think with all causes of injustice that I’d like to fight for, there’s got to be a strategy and I really wanted to give people the platform, to share their views. I don’t mind if they are drastically different from mine, but please submit your articles on the Contact page here because it would be fantastic to learn, publish and feature your thoughts.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.