🔴️  VIL1: Are Human Issues Relevant to Animal Rights? (Vegan Livestream)
Channel: Jeremy The Ape
Date: 12/03/2021

In this FIRST EVER Vegan Interactions Live, Vegan Ariel and I explore how to navigate human issues while campaigning for our fellow animals.  This is a topic that has created a lot of heated discussion within the movement and we hope this livestream will help move the discussion forward.  Here's a break-down of what we covered:

➤ Initial Framing
0:00 Intro
2:39 Our activist stories
7:35 Do human issues influence animal issues (and vice versa)?
9:04 Does respect for our fellow animals build respect for our fellow humans (and vice versa)?

➤ Voting, theory, and goal setting
12:02 Does it matter how animal advocates vote?
14:08 Theoretical break-down (veganism / definition)
17:24 Focus vs scope and motivations / goal setting
20:53 Is veganism political? (subsidies)

➤ Division and outreaching people with opposing views
22:11 Is a vegan world possible under capitalism?
24:38 Does interspecies respect go both ways?
25:20 Division in the vegan community (+retention / radicalization)
26:55 Outreaching people who have different core beliefs (religious, politically)

➤ Ideas vs individuals and finding a way forward
31:35 Focus on ideas vs the individuals who represent them (vegans, ‘intersectionals’)
34:01 Is the animal movement starting to talk more about human issues?
35:33 Is the disagreement more around the practical applications?
38:30 Getting along with fellow animal advocates

➤ Responding to viewer comments
40:32 How should we oppose subsidies for animal use? 
43:39 Are marginalized groups less likely to live vegan if we don’t speak for them?
45:32 Freedom of speech and censorship
46:42 Practical applications: how we could apply the focus vs scope idea (briefly)

➤ Applying these ideas to AR and censorship / children
52:54 That Vegan Teacher TikTok ban
55:24 Talking to children about animal use
57:50 Theoretical/practical break-down (non-rhetorical animal rights)

➤ Summary, holocaust language, using outreach to build awareness + be a guest
1:00:12 Summary (more about practical applications than the theory?)
1:02:01 (CW) Using holocaust language productively
1:04:44 Using comment sections (& social media) for outreach
1:09:22 Outro (Be my next guest to discuss any animal-related topic you’d like! 🙂)

Help us to evolve these ideas by sharing it with a fellow animal advocate 📲️

We will share/discuss as many of your comments as we can, so please let us know what you think throughout the show 👍 

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🔴️ In our modern world, the discussion of ideas often happens through comment sections.  This way of communicating is often quite limiting, especially when people are coming from different perspectives.  Vegan Interactions Live is designed to help overcome this, through respectful solution-based discussions. 

Topics range from fellow vegans exploring advocacy ideas, to people who are not vegan who are interested in exploring it further.  If there’s a topic relating to veganism or animal rights that you think is worth exploring, why not come on my next show?  E-mail me at: VeganInteractions@gmail.com to work out the details 👍


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🐥 Free support to start living vegan: https://challenge22.com/
(Recipes, resources and a team of mentors/registered dietitians)

🐮 FRIEND Farm Animal Sanctuary: https://friendfarmanimalsanctuary.org/
(Several survivors featured in this video)

🦃 Animal-centric videos: https://FB.me/VeganInteractions
(Build awareness by sharing on Facebook)

🐷 Free advocacy resources: http://veganinteractions.com/advocacy-resources
(Language, communication, and responding to objections)

🦆 Join the language group: https://www.FB.com/groups/UnlearningSpeciesistLanguage/

🐑 Mentor new vegans: https://www.challenge22.com/challenge22/volunteering/
(Easy activism from home)

🐠 My YT Playlists: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvjBJPKfcEAVLA_l-9cbmA/playlists


Thank you for helping to build respect for our fellow animals 🙂




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VI Intro/Outro:     
• Track: Cartoon - On & On (feat. Daniel Levi) [NCS Release]
• Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds
• Watch: https://youtu.be/K4DyBUG242c
• Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/onandon
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