Vegan Activism is Broken: the Phony Revolution of "Nation Rising", Ottawa, Canada, 2019.

15 June 2019 [link youtube]


The extent to which the failure of this one movement is representative of a larger problem is shown by just how many organizations were founding co-members of the group: PETA, DxE and many more "signed on" to "Nation Rising"… along with Pig Save, Cow Save, seemingly every vegan and animal rights organization of any size. And yet they fail in every way, including size itself. :-/ Vegan activism is broken. Who can fix it? :-/


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we show our support for the
revolutionary solution within veganism if something doesn't work we seem to keep doing it again and again and if anything we try to repeat the same tactic with more lies about how many people attend how successful it is how great the impacts are and with ever more radical rhetoric so nation rising started out by promising that what they were doing was quote not a protest but a revolution close quote and they're back again this year and mysteriously their promises of revolution have not been fulfilled and what they say is quote unquote not a protest looks more like a pathetic protest than ever and you know last year they lied about how many people attended their events I'll be interested to see if they lie again and claim that many hundreds of people or many thousands of people participated in this event I pointed out last year that when you actually got a crowd shot showing everyone at the event or most of the people at the event in one one frame of an image maybe there were thirty people there maybe there were fifty people there but frankly the numbers looked very very small indeed and you know it's not all about the numbers it's also about the quality of what these people are doing with their time Canada is a geographically enormous country Toronto is probably the closest major city to Ottawa but the trip from Toronto to Ottawa is at least four hours by car if you take a bus course it'll it'll be more it really is a huge amount of time and money it's not cheap to stay in a hotel in Ottawa to get from Toronto to Ottawa stay in a hotel there I was living in Victoria Victoria BC it is an unbelievable spanning trip to get from Victoria to Ottawa to take a lot of commitment a lot of personal sacrifices to go I would have gone if they'd have been nice to me if they'd have been decent to me these people vote of course they were of course there were [ __ ] to me like most vegan activists are they think they're leaders of a revolution they have a really high opinion of their importance and of course there they would never reduce something like appear on my channel you know do an interview and talk about what they're doing in their movement that would have been a really successful way for them promote themselves and maybe have more than 30 people attend their event come and talk about vegan politics and what they're trying to accomplish and even if you know even if there was some mutual criticism or examination or discussion of effective activism if they'd appeared on my channel that way some people would have watched the video on my channel and said hey you know what I like I like their approach I'm gonna give these guys a chance and some people would have spent a lot of money to get to Ottawa and stay in a hotel there just so they could be in this small crowd of people walking down the street with flags and I guess velvet with results and so they can be in this small crowd of people listening to this woman give a speech I mean this this is just preaching to the converted I don't know how anyone can feel they're making a positive difference in making the world a better place by showing up and standing in a crowd of vegans a crowd of like 30 vegans is it is it is it even 50 vegans but standing in a small crowd of vegans and listening to someone say things that you already agree with so you can just pat yourself on the back and feel like you're doing really radical really revolutionary I said earlier the Canada is an enormous country in terms of its size but it is mostly empty in terms of population and it is mostly empty terms of talent so mean this woman who's on the microphone here does she have more viewers on YouTube than I do does she have more depth or more connections in terms of reaching an audience of people who are seriously interested in vegan activism than I do no she doesn't it would have been a really good idea for her or any of the organizers at nation rising to respond positively to my attempts to get an interview it would have been a really good idea for them to at least let me participate in their movement if not positively involve me but that is exactly what was impossible him to do because it seems to me they are stereotypical left-wing Canadian fake radicals and it really hurts me it really disappoints me to see the extent to which veganism is becoming and remaining a fake radical movement you know there's no time to play dress-up revolutionary when there's a real revolution going on and you know the vast majority of attempts to pursue social political cultural and economic change are in no way revolutionary so I ask you why pretend I want to be part of a real political movement not a fake revolution [Music]