ARCO's Abolitionists - A Vegan Forum

This campaign keeps most of the activists in California, where i live, busy with collecting signatures. People, who care about animals, are overwhelmingly occupied with this project. Somehow they all accepted the message, conveyed by animal rights organizations' leaders, that the world is not going to go vegan in our lifetime, that it is not going to happen any time soon, that's why all activists have to work on improving welfare of farm animals.

Why it is not going to happen? It happened to us, who went vegan, why it is not going to happen to others? It is much easier now then 10 or even 5 years ago. All of a sudden, when it is becoming more and more public knowledge, that animal agribusiness is unspeakable cruelty, health and environmental hazard, the world suddenly is not going to go vegan and we have to switch our efforts to welfare (while repeating to ourselves that our goal is vegan world)?

From my experience lots of people ARE interested, they just need to be given truthful information, instead of "historic opportunity to change the lives of farm animals" by voting for humane farms.

Here is what Lee Hall is saying about California campaign:http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/ballot-box-balderdash-californians-for-humane-farms/

I had a friend ask me to participate in this campaign, to email everyone I know, post about it on my blog, etc. I haven't been able to bring myself to respond. I feel like I should write just the perfect thing to wake this person up, but I'm left with an empty feeling instead, and so I simply deleted the request and continue about my business of vegan education and community-building.

AnimalFriendly, going on with your vegan education is, of course, the most important thing to do. Nothing can replace or top that.

Is there anything that would help you, if you wanted to respond directly to the request? I know you've more than enough words & thoughts to do so. I imagine you've touched on the subject in various ways on your blog? Is it that the person just so didn't get it, that they thought you would be interested in it, and you're overwhelmed by their ignorance of your position?

Or is it just the overall enormity of the thing in general?

Maybe you can point to something from Tribe of Heart or something written by sanctuaries about the refugees from humane farms.

Compassion for Sale? Doublethink Meets Doublefeel as Happy Meat Comes of Age
By James LaVeck
http://www.satyamag.com/sept06/laveck.html

and

http://peacefulprairie.blogspot.com/200 ... rming.html