Is Animal Rights 'Too Intellectual?' (Vegan Street Outreach)
Channel: Jeremy The Ape
Date: 10/05/2020

You won't believe how much they open up during this vegan street outreach conversation!

Since 2018, I have been applying a rights-based approach to my animal advocacy.  This is one of the first discussions since doing this where I was consistently challenged to explain my position, and thanks to their open-mindedness I think we both learned a lot and were inspired from the interaction. Here's what we covered:

****As there's street noise, you may like to enable YouTube's closed captioning to help understand what we're saying****

 0:51 Intro
 2:11 Start of street interview
 2:45 Beginning of rights-based discussion
 5:10 Does veganism make us more aware of other issues?
 7:24 Other issues more important?
 8:36 Is 'organic' / 'free range' better?
 9:39 Do fishes have rights?
16:02 Is discussing 'rights' too intellectual?
18:20 Closing thoughts
18:46 How others answered rights-based question (Rapid fire)
20:11 Stages of change analysis
21:05 My solo street outreach setup
23:04 Outtakes

If you're interested in incorporating a rights-based approach to your animal advocacy, and to me all animal advocates should seriously consider this, I encourage you to study the work of the originator of rights-based animal rights, Tom Regan.

I started a playlist to centralize all of his videos.  
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4uGHV8svbqCfVf_cYY1gERkaWWdDOp-L

Hopefully this video helps those exploring these ideas.  However I've found adopting a rights-based approach requires more than just knowing a few key rights or sound bites to say and leaving it there.  For more resources to support having conversations of your own like this, you may like explore the 'True Animal Rights' section on my website:
http://veganinteractions.com/advocacy-resources

Other Resources / Topics Mentioned
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2:28, 21:32  BARC (Brighton Animal Rights Collective)
https://www.facebook.com/brightonveganactivists/

9:50 Puffer Fish Showing They Are Aware (Video)
https://youtu.be/VQr8xDk_UaY

13:38 COWSPIRACY - The Sustainability Secret (Free, short Version)
https://youtu.be/dSjE8xw_-Dg

15:46 Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, by David Nibert
https://t.ly/TFAD

19:32 Rights-based discussion guide (Under free downloads)
http://veganinteractions.com/advocacy-resources

20:11 Stages of change (Video, stages @ 2:26)
https://youtu.be/LxceFKq3eRo?t=146

20:55 Free downloadable outreach cards
(Last link under 'Outreach resources' section)
http://veganinteractions.com/advocacy-resources

I want to hear from you!  Let us know what you think in the comments and don't forget to share if you know others interested in these topics :)


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