Creative Yet Easy Animal Advocacy
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Please take a look at The Virtual Battery Cage Tour below. It was created by Mark Middleton, an artist, web developer, and animal advocate. Middleton’s animal advocacy website is animalvisuals.org, which offers this battery cage tour as well as a US slaughter rate visual aid.
I’m posting this to remind activists of what vegan education can look like. And to remind newbie activists that some forms of vegan education are as simple as copying and pasting.
Most animal advocates tend to think about vegan education in terms of leafleting, tabling, or one-on-one conversations. But vegan education can take many forms. And in fact, it should take many forms. Here are some ideas:
- Start a vegan blog
- Make a simple static website that features vegan videos
- Make your own educational video with text and graphics
- Donate vegan nutrition, vegan cooking, and animal rights books to libraries
- Tack leaflets to community cork-boards
- Twitter about veganism
- Put an animal rights message on your voicemail greeting
Got more ideas? Please share.
Confront your local school board to offer children vegan school lunches.
Insist teachers incorporate Humane Education in their lessons – already required in many states.
Talk openly with children about veganism, otherwise vegans come across as being wrong, timid, and subversive. We did nothing wrong and should have no problem talking with children about reality, kindness, and compassion. The truth is not against the law.
Put pressure on our leaders to adopt vegan diets. We also need to put pressure on people to follow existing laws.
Find creative ways to get the word out. Learn from corpse-munchers how to reach children. They use happy meals, cartoons, toys, games, prizes, events, and contests.
Live by example. Speak-up against injustice. Children will hear you whether you realize they are listening or not.
I give these cards http://inslide.com/cardsfor.jpg to all ages. Just hand it to corpse-munchers at checkouts or walking by anyone wherever you are. Don’t say anything, just hand it to them and walk away.
Go out at night and leave cards in/on playground equipment where children play. Leave them in gumball machines where the prize/candy comes out.
You can get 1000 business cards from local printers for about $25
Hmmm… You could get free or cheap business cards online. You could print some up that simply say whyvegan.com or tryveg.com or hey, even vegansoapbox.com and hand those out or pin them to bulletin boards. That would be simple and easy activism.