Why Must We Have Self Respect As Vegans

As a vegan, you are important as a spokesperson for poor victim animals. You need to be respected and supported for helping out in this HUGE charitable cause for justice and equality. And if you are having beautiful conversations with non vegans and giving them invaluable knowledge and guidance, they need to at least respect you for that, if not pay you as an expert.

Non vegans treat us badly enough. On top of that, some Vegans are unclear themselves and take things lightly at times. This is because fundamentals are not clear enough within the vegan community. I am an expert and a book author, and I can help clarify things.

Please 🙏 watch the below video and comment to add your opinions.

Narcissistic tactics are already used by non vegans to minimise, deny, deflect, gaslight, charm, laugh it off, disrespect the social cause, and massage their egoes. Kindly refer to my free book Shamelessly Arguing With Vegans on http://www.earthhealingnetwork.com website.

The following are some of the illusions they expertly project and convince us of:

1: ***They deserve non judgemental listening to… as if they are victims who are paying for a counselling session designed to heal them.***

Remember, they are guilty, and they need to have someone tell them that. Would you not judge a terrorist, a serial killer, a rapist, a paedophile? These deserve jail as per a court judgement.

So why be a speciesist and accept huge crimes against animals of other species?

If you claim to be a vegan and preach non judgemental attitudes towards huge crimes perpetrated against animals of other species, shame on you. Blame and shame are healthy for the sake of insight and self reflection. They help us awaken.

2: ***Just because you were not born a vegan and were guilty in your past, you must also let them go lightly and not feel judged.***

Well, you have changed. You judged yourself, found yourself guilty, and took steps to stop being a perpetrator yourself. Now it is their turn.

3: ***They need their own time to come to a decision on whether to go vegan or not.***

If you know you can be a normal person right now and not hurt someone without any issues, why would you keep harming others? And is abusing others up to your personal (rude) choices and decisions? You are being speciesistic.

4. ***They need to feel respected as equals, not discriminated against and included in your social life, personal life, jobs, and communities.***

Do you make it a point to include paedophile, racists, and serial killers in your relationship, daily life and socials, in bed with you, in your offices and teams?

If yes, you need to get your head checked up now. (I KNOW SOME PEOPLE DO AS THEY HAVE LESS SELF RESPECT)

If non vegans want to be included, there is a simple and immediate way – just go vegan. Easy peasy. It’s no rocket science.

Non vegans know how to be vegan in this age of Internet and supermarkets. They are draining us out, wasting our time, and hurting their victims while also abusing us. Siding with them makes you an enabler of speciesism. Just because you are not the victim, and your head was not chopped off, you find it easy to judge vegans as judgemental if they say that it is entirely wrong and unjustified? Non vegans enjoy this conflict between vegans.

In outreach, their conversations with us non vegans seem largely abusive, intimidating, and superficial. They behave entitled and cocky, talk us down, implicate us, and walk away feeling like they stuck to their guns and won their right to hurt, kill, and cause mayhem for selfish enjoyment of taste or vanity.

Worse still some ‘Vegans’ are appearing in front of other Vegans and being applauded for stating we should not ‘judge’ Non Vegans unless we were vegan since birth…as we all are not born vegans (therefore inferior). Well, so what if someone is born a vegan, and so what if they went vegan just 2 days ago? If they understand how to change themselves now, that is all that matters.

Veganism is not a toxic competition of who was vegan for a longer time. It is about the rights of victims who are animals of other species. Also enough of misjudging Vegans as militant, or superior, or preachy, or judgemental. Non judgementality does not mean condoning violence or discrimination. Also, if you are racist, misogynist, genderistic, heterosexist, ageist, ableist, yourself, or in any way not anti-discrimination yourself, being ‘just vegan’ is not enough. All evil is equally wrong.

Veganism is also not the same as eating plants, mainly for health and climate change. It is a moral stand for animal rights. Other ancillary issues add to your outreach but are not the core of veganism. If you are not vegan but are plant based and a Speciesistic person at heart, please don’t call yourself a vegan. Plain and simple.

Article by Swati Prakash, Author, http://www.earthhealingnetwork.com