Name: How to Create a Vegan World?- Tobias Leenaert [IARC2017]
Uploaded: 2018-11-01T14:01:27.000Z
Duration: 54 min 29 s
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So this talk is indeed called how to create a vegan world and that's the title of my book

and It's been called a book that everyone should avoid

by the vegan police and this is an actual quote

This is actually somebody calling himself the vegan police.

But what I want to show with this is that, I'm sometimes

a bit of a devil's advocate within the movement

and some people would just simply say I'm the devil.

perceptions about the vegan movement and what we can do better,

very simply that I think that vegans of course are awesome. I was ...

Yeah, and in United States where I just was at the conference, we would say like give yourself a big round of applause

Why? because you have to deal with a lot of shit, you are

swimming against the stream, you're doing a thing that's really awesome

That's really great that has so many benefits for so many things and you're doing it in spite of the fact that

97% of the people or something is against you and is criticizing you and ridiculing you so that's why it's really

So that being said, let me explain some things about what we could do better. In my book,

I used a metaphor I use a metaphor of the track to vegan ville

A hike to vegan ville, vegan ville is the village where we want everybody to live, we want

everybody to live in that village to be vegan, a vegan world right

Subdivided the book in different part different chapters. It's about the first one is about getting your bearings

Where are we... the second one is about the call to action? What are we ideally going to ask people to do?

Third one is about motivations. What are the arguments we're going to use?

Then the environment is about like how do we create an environment? That's facilitating people's ...

Then I have a big chapter on communication

How do we communicate best with people like in an engaging way...

That like really motivates and stimulates them, and then finally there's a  chapter on sustainability about how to keep on doing what we're doing

I'm going to talk about another metaphor, and I'm going to use the metaphor of ingredients, and I'm going to talk about

for a vegan world, four things that we need more of in our movement

And you can think more than four, of more than four things, but I'm going to just discuss these ones

Those are the four ingredients that I see that we can use some more of.

for a certain part of your life you were in a certain box

It's an ideological box, and it made you think that like Melanie joy says meat-eating is normal, natural, necessary,

you were just inside your safe box, and you were okay there

you get a bit... (you see the box move) get a bit restless inside the box

and then the light goes on the box opens and you jump out

Right? and you start talking about all these things, and you start realizing all these things, these..

What.. what.. meat eating or animal products consumption is connected to..

and then what happened to me, is that I found that I was

Noticing with myself that I wasn't listening very much

anymore to others to non vegans and I was thinking I had found the truth.

and I was just repeating the same things all the time.

So I was saying things like veganism is this! And you're not vegan if you do that! and

vegans are that!.. like all kinds of things that were given to me that were like..

that I wasn't questioning anymore. So for instance this cartoon illustrates very well like if there's so I'm mostly vegan

But and the other person here says there's no you're not vegan if there's a bot

Right so there was no questioning anymore, and I I agreed with this and I don't think today

That's a good thing and I was always also going back like I see many people do going back to the definition of veganism

This guy Donald Watson invented veganism so many years ago

And we go back to his definition and his and that's that's a bit like a religion like going back to the original

I found myself doing that again and again, and here is a good test like to see to check your open-mindedness

This is an article actually. I thought it was a pretty good article. Why vegetarians or vegans should be prepared to bend their own rules

are you motivated to read this article or are you saying like?

You know, that's how you can test your own

open-mindedness. Or can you imagine that maybe it's a little bit more complicated than this maybe this serves for purposes of external communication

but when we think about it it may be a little bit more complicated so what I want to say is um..

You can be liberated from the carnist box

But you can end up in another box and just let me be clear if you're in a box

It's much better to be in this box than this box

Okay, but still it's better to be not inside any box at all and the way I put it sometimes is being vegan

means giving up animal products, it doesn't mean giving up thinking

So beware of dogma what's wrong.. Dogma is like not questioning things anymore

Taking things for granted and what's the problem with Dogma is that Dogma doesn't allow ourselves to improve.

Okay, and we have to constantly improve because there's so much work to do and we have to get ever better at it, okay, so

Open-mindedness these things can help you like think about questions like have I thought about this thoroughly?

Have I really thought about this or am I just?

Repeating something that I've heard all the time

Think about what information you might be missing. Think about what your own biases are when you talk to people etc and

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