Creative Nonviolent Vegan Education
Question: “I want to encourage people to go vegan. How should I do it?”
Answer: You know yourself, your resources, and the people you interact with best, so you’re the best judge of what you should do to help animals. Maybe you’re a social butterfly so you want to organize potlucks. Maybe you’re a computer wiz so you’d like to create a website. It’s up to you what you do to help foster veganism in other people.
However, Vegan Soapbox has some suggestions:
- Browse the Soapbox’s activism section for ideas or news about activism.
- Leave A Link, Change A Life is worth a read, as well as 10 Kinds Of Vegan Activism.
- Also, there’s Being An Effective Advocate For Animals, How To Be A Blogger Activist, PETA Tips On Getting Active, Getting To Your Friends And Family.
Two of the most effective methods of “vegangelism” are: leafleting and videos.
Here are some videos:
- The 8 Most Disturbing Animal Videos Available Online Now
- The 8 Most Compelling Vegan Videos Available Online Now
- Investigations, interviews, etc: PETA TV
- Doctors, dietitians, etc: VegSource TV
- Cooking how-to videos: Everyday Dish
Here are some leafleting resources:


VegFund has a list of tabling literature too:
http://vegfund.org/Literature.html
I would not use PETA’s starter kits. I saw there stand picked one up. There are cool recipes in there, and we used the vegan blueberry pancakes recipe, but the rest is full of poorly written or researched “facts” on health and what not.
COK’s guide is not bad, if you’re okay with vegan being called vegetarian instead of vegan.