Vegan Politics (Real Talk)
19 March 2015 [link youtube]
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my daily life. of the political aspirations and goals of to people face-to-face, and the larger number spoken to, who have been vegan for some time, because they begin with the idea that veganism movement, and then they struggle with disappointment haven't done, what standards they do and don't more honest and more useful to really face in the English-speaking world, veganism is towards is forming some of the first vegan culture, but you're setting yourself up for a community that already exists. for what a community is supposed to be. it's an even smaller minority religion within have lawyers' offices, they have political within Toronto, and that community, although Canada, is still large enough that it can are left wing, some are right wing, some are beings, [with] all kinds of different views culture and history to bind them together, political interests, that may deepen the sense something defined by their religion. look around the English-speaking world, you that exists anywhere even to the standard in Canada, and, actually, that's a pretty "is", to be considered one that exists. community to set your standard you were to Green Party, especially the Green Party as political movements, even though they're very they come from. either, neither politically nor socially, world. in a country like Taiwan, there there is a to vegetarianism, and that has now extended exists in Taiwan, although even there it's motivated and less often disappointed and not even at the stage of having our own community have gotten involved with veganism, that is, when you say that, but yeah, what unifies interested in veganism for health reasons, maybe involved in science, concerned about those issues, those two people may have nothing diet. with a third person who is mostly engaged reasons to be vegan. to do with a fourth person who is a stereotypical hippies. of political crossroads of diverse, uncommon that has the potential to form a social movement did in the 1980s. were really strongly organized anti-nuclear-war, movements, in Japan, in Germany, in Canada, were left wing, some of whom were right wing, some environmental concerns, there are parallels. in common and that was their questioning of of a diverse group like that, let alone a Sikh minority are a community in Toronto. on Facebook who give each other "thumbs up", movement, that's… that's nothing. tried to set down, what now is the next step, comparison is the historical transformation toward cigarette smoking. more sense as it goes along. 1965, cigarette smoking was everywhere, and in it. we watch a movie or a news report from the ashtray in the middle of the boardroom table, officials have got cigarettes out, they've it just seems hilarious, because to us it's and raises all kinds of other issues. culture, at that time, this was as normal in a restaurant, a meeting room, a university they're all non-smoking, but, a few decades to suggest that you should ban smoking or in the culture that it's invisible is that to get to the point where people question is this a significant choice? going to impact my health, my children's health, public or those around me in my choosing to being a non-smoker is something that I have something that goes on around me all the time a cafeteria, it's mildly horrifying to you to the vast majority of people who are engaged step for veganism, to just achieve the awareness, this is something that has consequences for the environment, for the future of your children, not eating meat is a meaningful choice, it as breathing the air. type of transformation it brings about… smoke cigarettes, and they still smoke in that they're making a choice, and that awareness quit outright, for people to become non-smokers, they're under pressure all the time to smoke in a lot of smoking, if they try to smoke least look at them and say, "What are you "What are you trying to do to all of us?" a guy who just posted a set of questions (very in veganism as a political movement, asking motivated by compassion?" the cultural challenge of confronting people for their own health, if not other ideas, for compassion in it. to quit smoking, but nobody quits smoking plant. contrast to veganism, where, of course, compassion of what's going on and why it's going on. by compassion, that tends to be short-term. stories about how they first learned about vegan, they people who stay vegan and the or to be politically engaged in vegan related compassion. of virtues that went out of fashion in the but the 18th century. [having] an uncompromising attitude. was always an insult. was, and, culturally, in the western, English-speaking can never be cool. and stick with it, those are going to be uncompromising at least, had to do with not caring, a certain the consequences of your actions. you care?" of your actions?" for air pollution, for water pollution?" for your health?" for the world your children are going to inherit?" a really complicated set of consequences, you care? it doesn't sound like compassion, and, as something "cool". note because veganism is so much better today, better in 2005 than it was in 1995. it has grown, and it's going to continue to about that. open a vegan bakery, it's really easy to be vegan today, those numbers are only going happen to be living in. ask yourself, is there a vegan daycare where daycares, you're probably going to find them defined in different ways. also, defined in different ways. your kid in a daycare, one of your main concerns to move into a retirement home, or an old to be vegan food. see those types of institutions? as a community in bricks and mortar?
my daily life. of the political aspirations and goals of to people face-to-face, and the larger number spoken to, who have been vegan for some time, because they begin with the idea that veganism movement, and then they struggle with disappointment haven't done, what standards they do and don't more honest and more useful to really face in the English-speaking world, veganism is towards is forming some of the first vegan culture, but you're setting yourself up for a community that already exists. for what a community is supposed to be. it's an even smaller minority religion within have lawyers' offices, they have political within Toronto, and that community, although Canada, is still large enough that it can are left wing, some are right wing, some are beings, [with] all kinds of different views culture and history to bind them together, political interests, that may deepen the sense something defined by their religion. look around the English-speaking world, you that exists anywhere even to the standard in Canada, and, actually, that's a pretty "is", to be considered one that exists. community to set your standard you were to Green Party, especially the Green Party as political movements, even though they're very they come from. either, neither politically nor socially, world. in a country like Taiwan, there there is a to vegetarianism, and that has now extended exists in Taiwan, although even there it's motivated and less often disappointed and not even at the stage of having our own community have gotten involved with veganism, that is, when you say that, but yeah, what unifies interested in veganism for health reasons, maybe involved in science, concerned about those issues, those two people may have nothing diet. with a third person who is mostly engaged reasons to be vegan. to do with a fourth person who is a stereotypical hippies. of political crossroads of diverse, uncommon that has the potential to form a social movement did in the 1980s. were really strongly organized anti-nuclear-war, movements, in Japan, in Germany, in Canada, were left wing, some of whom were right wing, some environmental concerns, there are parallels. in common and that was their questioning of of a diverse group like that, let alone a Sikh minority are a community in Toronto. on Facebook who give each other "thumbs up", movement, that's… that's nothing. tried to set down, what now is the next step, comparison is the historical transformation toward cigarette smoking. more sense as it goes along. 1965, cigarette smoking was everywhere, and in it. we watch a movie or a news report from the ashtray in the middle of the boardroom table, officials have got cigarettes out, they've it just seems hilarious, because to us it's and raises all kinds of other issues. culture, at that time, this was as normal in a restaurant, a meeting room, a university they're all non-smoking, but, a few decades to suggest that you should ban smoking or in the culture that it's invisible is that to get to the point where people question is this a significant choice? going to impact my health, my children's health, public or those around me in my choosing to being a non-smoker is something that I have something that goes on around me all the time a cafeteria, it's mildly horrifying to you to the vast majority of people who are engaged step for veganism, to just achieve the awareness, this is something that has consequences for the environment, for the future of your children, not eating meat is a meaningful choice, it as breathing the air. type of transformation it brings about… smoke cigarettes, and they still smoke in that they're making a choice, and that awareness quit outright, for people to become non-smokers, they're under pressure all the time to smoke in a lot of smoking, if they try to smoke least look at them and say, "What are you "What are you trying to do to all of us?" a guy who just posted a set of questions (very in veganism as a political movement, asking motivated by compassion?" the cultural challenge of confronting people for their own health, if not other ideas, for compassion in it. to quit smoking, but nobody quits smoking plant. contrast to veganism, where, of course, compassion of what's going on and why it's going on. by compassion, that tends to be short-term. stories about how they first learned about vegan, they people who stay vegan and the or to be politically engaged in vegan related compassion. of virtues that went out of fashion in the but the 18th century. [having] an uncompromising attitude. was always an insult. was, and, culturally, in the western, English-speaking can never be cool. and stick with it, those are going to be uncompromising at least, had to do with not caring, a certain the consequences of your actions. you care?" of your actions?" for air pollution, for water pollution?" for your health?" for the world your children are going to inherit?" a really complicated set of consequences, you care? it doesn't sound like compassion, and, as something "cool". note because veganism is so much better today, better in 2005 than it was in 1995. it has grown, and it's going to continue to about that. open a vegan bakery, it's really easy to be vegan today, those numbers are only going happen to be living in. ask yourself, is there a vegan daycare where daycares, you're probably going to find them defined in different ways. also, defined in different ways. your kid in a daycare, one of your main concerns to move into a retirement home, or an old to be vegan food. see those types of institutions? as a community in bricks and mortar?