get your peeps to go vegan !
Posted by eganvay on Jul 20, 2008 · Member since Jul 2008 · 3 posts
here's how to get your friends and family to go vegan!
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checkout this great online Vegan convincer, you can share this one with
all your family and friends. it's done very, very well.
http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/veganvideo.html
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This is great - thank you!
His voice kind of rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. Also, I've wondered this before--does the number of vegetarians & vegans outweigh the amount of meat and animal products that is thrown away? It's kind of depressing to think about, but how do we know we're making a difference in the number of resources consumed and animals hurt? If another 5% of the population went vegan, would the number of animals killed decrease by that amount? I'm not making excuses for anyone, just, grr, ya know?
His voice kind of rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. Also, I've wondered this before--does the number of vegetarians & vegans outweigh the amount of meat and animal products that is thrown away? It's kind of depressing to think about, but how do we know we're making a difference in the number of resources consumed and animals hurt? If another 5% of the population went vegan, would the number of animals killed decrease by that amount? I'm not making excuses for anyone, just, grr, ya know?
i've wondered that, too. but i think that since it's done by supply and demand, the stores that are not selling as much meat would stop ordering as much so that they wouldn't be throwing away their profits. i think that our efforts aren't in vain. i mean, if tomorrow every veg*n started eating meat again, they'd have to supply a lot more to meet the demand, wouldn't they?
i mean, if tomorrow every veg*n started eating meat again, they'd have to supply a lot more to meet the demand, wouldn't they?
yes. for sure. we are not doing it in vain at all. i mean, that's like saying there isn't any other type of food thrown out, either. unfortunately food is wasted like crazy, which all comes from participating in an agricultural society.
i mean, if tomorrow every veg*n started eating meat again, they'd have to supply a lot more to meet the demand, wouldn't they?
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i mean, if tomorrow every veg*n started eating meat again, they'd have to supply a lot more to meet the demand, wouldn't they?
yes. for sure. we are not doing it in vain at all. i mean, that's like saying there isn't any other type of food thrown out, either. unfortunately food is wasted like crazy, which all comes from participating in an agricultural society.
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i know, i hate food waste! like, i work at a restaurant. some restaurants i've worked at will donate their food to shelters at the end of the day but MOST of them will just throw it out. when the homeless people (there are LOTS of them in seattle) come asking for food we have to turn them down. i don't understand what would be wrong with saying to them, "at the end of the day you can have whatever we were going to throw out" because that wasn't going to make a profit anyways.
i mean, if tomorrow every veg*n started eating meat again, they'd have to supply a lot more to meet the demand, wouldn't they?
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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haha, is that so? i'm glad to hear that i intrigue somebody! i like to point out things that some people may not have thought about or point out a different side of it because i think it is important for people to think. when people refuse to learn about something but they're going to be judgemental, that is called... prejudice! ...not that that's the case with the statement you replied to in the sense of my posting it here, but sorta. i've had to debate these topics for so long that i've done a lot of research and i usually know what to say.
i've had people tell me for my entire life that my efforts were pointless because "they're going to kill the cow anyways" and "one little vegan girl can not make that much of a difference".
well, guess what... being vegetarian saves more lives a year than making a blood donation, and i've never heard anyone say to someone donating blood "there's no way you can save them all, so why do you even try? this is pointless! one little blood donator cannot possibly make a difference!"... and you know what else? ...i'm not the only one! multiply me by... lots... a big number... i don't know it exactly... and that's how many lives my vegetarianism is saving!
plus, duh... everyone knows that our economy is completely dependent on supply and demand. that's why when i like a really unpopular item at my health food store, i make it my personal mission to buy as much of it as possible so that they still carry it! hahaha! you would not believe how much frozen yogurt i had to eat one year because no one else in oklahoma wanted to buy "whole soy frozen yogurts"! i LOVE that stuff! luckily the people in seattle already liked it a lot before i came around.
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thank you for the compliments secondbase!
:)