The powerpoint presentation that accompanied my talk, The Time of Veganism is NOW, at the second Dublin VegFest (Sept 11, 2016).

1. The Time
of
Veganism
is NOWRoger Yates
Dublin VegFest II – Sept 2016
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2. Co-founder of TVS
Dorothy (Dot) Watson
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3. In a vegan world the creatures would be reintegrated within the
balance…of nature as she is in herself. A great and historic wrong,
whose effect upon the course of evolution must have been
stupendous, would be righted. The idea that his fellow creatures
might be used by man for self-interested purposes would be so
alien to human thought as to be almost unthinkable. In this light,
veganism is not so much welfare as liberation, for the creatures and
for the mind and heart of man; not so much an effort to make the
present relationship bearable, as an uncompromising recognition
that because it is in the main one of master and slave, it has to be
abolished before something better and finer can be built.
Leslie Cross (1951) British Vegan Society.
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WHAT IS VEGANISM

4. In a vegan world the creatures would be reintegrated
within the balance…of nature as she is in herself. A great
and historic wrong, whose effect upon the course of
evolution must have been stupendous, would be righted.
The idea that his fellow creatures might be used by man
for self-interested purposes would be so alien to human
thought as to be almost unthinkable. In this light,
veganism is not so much welfare as liberation, for the
creatures and for the mind and heart of man; not so much
an effort to make the present relationship bearable, as an
uncompromising recognition that because it is in the main
one of master and slave, it has to be abolished before
something better and finer can be built.
Leslie Cross (1951) British Vegan Society.
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5. …but that is not the
SCOPE of veganism
The original vegan pioneers (founders of
the social movement) saw veganism as
part of the peace movement
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6. …a justice-for-all philosophy
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7. VEGANISM
…AS A RADICAL – REVOLUTIONARY
– IDEA
…AS A THREAT & CHALLENGE TO
CULTURAL SPECIESISM AND
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
…IS UNDER ATTACK
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8. “professionals” and “civilians” 8

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10. “Lacto-vegan”
Vegan-except-for-bacon
“venison”
“roadkill”
(backyard) Eggs
Horse riding
Honey
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11. REDUCETARIAN
VEGETARIAN
VEGAN
REDUCETARIANS
VEGETARIANS
VEGANS 11