Tag Archives: baby steps

Aggression, blame and guilt

Posted on December 14, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

A comment on a recent essay said that with regards to vegan advocacy, ‘people don’t respond positively to aggression, blame and guilt but rather to encouragement, praise and education’. I have to say that I do agree with the principles of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism | Tagged aggression, baby steps, betrayal, blame, Chickens and eggs, commodification, compassion, consumer demand, dairy, encouragement, ethics, guilt, harm, honesty, human superiority, humane, justice, lies, light-bulb moment, milk, negativity, pragmatism, praise, truth, vegan, veganism, vegetarianism, victims | 10 Comments

Bullying – an analogy

Posted on December 5, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

There’s an Elephant in the Room promotes veganism and never anything less. There are dozens – if not hundreds – of posts and essays linked to the page that seek to clarify this point but they all boil down to one … Continue reading →

Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Harm reduction, Speciesism, Uncategorized | Tagged advocacy, baby steps, bullying, harm, human superiority, justice, Torture, truth, vegan, veganism, vegetarianism, victims, violence | 4 Comments

What we ask for, what we get ….

Posted on October 23, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

… and what on earth has this to do with vegan advocacy? The subject of ‘what we ask for’ versus ‘what we get’ is one that every single one of us is familiar with. Casting my mind back to my … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Harm reduction | Tagged advocacy, baby steps, commodification, compromise, encouragement, harm, Harm reduction, health, moral choices, nonviolence, promoting harm, resources, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 5 Comments

On being critical and holier than thou

Posted on March 1, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

I recently saw two criticisms of my blog on Facebook. What, only two? To be honest there’s never any shortage of criticism. The human obsession with using and consuming inappropriate substances and causing death and destruction to vulnerable innocents in order to … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism | Tagged advocacy, baby steps, Chickens and eggs, consumer demand, criticism, Cruelty, dairy, diet, holier than thou, moral choices, nonviolence, sentience, slaughter, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 12 Comments

Taking our time, taking their lives

Posted on February 18, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Yesterday I heard a sentence that I can’t stop thinking about. The sentence was, ‘I was on my journey to being the best me.’ It was said by someone seeking to make a case for the several years of their transition … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism | Tagged advocacy, baby steps, calves, chickens, Chickens and eggs, consumer demand, cows, dairy, Journey, milk, pigs, sentience, sheep, slaughter, Torture, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 29 Comments

In a nutshell: the victims of vegetarianism

Posted on July 10, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

The ‘In a nutshell’ series will attempt to summarise key issues and concepts about which I have previously written at length. As a former vegetarian, I know from personal experience that a reluctance to eat ‘meat’ is the main motive … Continue reading →

Posted in In a nutshell, Vegetarianism explained | Tagged ahimsa silk, baby steps, cheese, chickens, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, diet, feathers, fur, harm, honey, justice, leather, milk, nonviolence, sentience, silk, silk worms, slaughter, slink, speciesism, Torture, truth, vegan, veganism, vegetarianism, violence, wool | 24 Comments

One problem, one solution

Posted on February 5, 2015 by There's an Elephant in the Room

One problem or many? It is not surprising that there is so much confusion in the ‘animal rights’ movement. It is all too easy to be misled into thinking that there are lots of different problems, and a range of different … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Single Issue Campaigns, Speciesism | Tagged advocacy, baby steps, extremism, moral choices, Single Issue Campaigns, speciesism, veganism | 8 Comments

Veganism – when does the journey begin?

Posted on August 13, 2014 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Becoming vegan We can be vegan or we can be nonvegan. Some claim that becoming vegan is a journey that they take in steps and I’ve ready many articles about personal ‘journeys’. However, looking at the actions that determine whether … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged abolition, advocacy, awakening, baby steps, ethics, Journey, nonviolence, sentience, speciesism, vegan, veganism, vegetarianism | 7 Comments

Thoughts on the Vegan Police

Posted on August 4, 2014 by There's an Elephant in the Room

I have recently seen several posts and comments in social media referring to the ‘vegan police’, usually with a ‘lol’ or two thrown in. I can understand the mockery if it comes from someone who does not know any better, … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged abolition, baby steps, diet, speciesism, vegan, veganism, welfarism | 2 Comments