Activism in everyday life
From the moment we get up until we go to bed we can carry out all kinds of activism in our daily life. For example, talk with our acquaintances, friends, family members. Inform them about the ethical reasons that support veganism, explain the nutritional data that ensure the healthy viability of a vegan diet, warn them of the tremendous environmental damage that the animal exploitation industry causes our planet. In short, raise awareness about how terribly irresponsible is animal exploitation and all its disastrous consequences for other animals and for the life of the planet.
To give an example to others of how we try to lead a life free of animal exploitation without giving up the pleasure of eating, satisfying our basic needs and leading a good quality of life. Make others see that what they consider food, clothing or consumer goods are the result of suffering, slavery and death of innocent people who wanted to live free like us but were treated as things against their desire. We would have suffered the same from having been treated in the same way as them.
The empathy towards other animals is latent in a great majority of human beings with whom we live but who has been buried and corrupted by the speciesist education we have received since childhood. Our duty is to awaken this empathy to show that in what concerns to feel all animals are equal.
Anyone who is aware of respect for life, respect for others, respect for the environment, respect for animals, must know that veganism is the basis of any ethic that really takes that respect seriously. ; and we are the ones who should let you know.
I encourage all vegans to inform themselves, read and study as much as possible about the solid logical arguments and scientific evidences that prove every day with more strength the perfect viability of bringing veganism into practice for the whole of humanity. Veganism is constant reeducation.
It is true that we must try to find allies and friends of our cause but we also have to know that we will find a lot of hostility and enmity along the way. We are attacking the anthropocentric scale of values that underlies the very basis of our speciesist society: the exploitation of non-human animals. An exploitative industry that is the direct economic source of hundreds of thousands of humans around the world and that supplies the demand of millions and millions of consumers.
Activism in our daily life has a very great value, it is veganism in action, public and manifest veganism. Vegans do not hide from us, let alone be ashamed. Those who consume animals live with the shame and horror they cause through their actions, but many will endeavor not to see that moral error in which they live only by the inertia of continuing the habits in which they have been educated.
Society has a lot to learn. Let's dedicate our efforts to educate her every day of our life. Nothing better can be done.
Animal rights are not specific rights for non-human animals.
Animal Rights mean the extension to other animals of fundamental rights that are legally recognized only by human beings: the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to physical and mental integrity.
Animal Rights involve breaking down the discriminatory criterion that does not allow other animals of other species a true legal protection of their lives and their own interests.
Animal Rights involve the legal recognition of animals as individuals with full capacity to feel, and that capacity is what morally grounds the respect we owe to their lives and, by extension, also to the territories in which they live.
Animal Rights allow nonhuman animals to have the same basic rights reserved so far for humans: the right not to be owned by any human, the right not to be kidnapped, enslaved or tortured. The right to legitimate ownership of the fruit of your body and your work (milk, honey).
Animal Rights make it clear that we cannot exploit other animals in any way for our benefit.
Animal rights is veganism.
