Globally, 2019 was called The Year of the Vegan with Time Magazine saying this on one of front cover of one of its issues. Record numbers of people attended the Australian festivals with the annual World Vegan Day in Melbourne seeing nearly 25,000 attendees. Despite the increasing awareness of the moral, health and environmental imperatives…
Phrases like, “It’s my choice what to eat!” or “Why are vegans so preachy?” fuel our vystopia because real victims are involved and most pre-vegans just aren’t getting it. In discussion with Kate Galli of the Healthification podcast, I discuss the 8 pervasive myths or unquestioned assumptions lurking behind peoples’ resistance to change. Most importantly, how,…
Where were you when disaster struck in Haiti, the first tsunami in Indonesia or, more recently, catastrophic bushfires in Australia or the Queensland floods? We tend to remember these disasters and open our hearts and wallets to help people in need. Some of us go further, getting on planes to provide help. What makes a…
Imagine picking a ripe lemon off a tree, cutting it in half and then in quarters. You then lick your fingers, sticky with sharp lemon juice. You then take one quarter and rub it across your mouth and teeth. With your head back, you take another quarter, bursting with juice, and squeeze it into your…
Have you ever wondered if vigils and “bearing witness” to the suffering of animals on their way to the slaughterhouse is really making a difference? Does it help the animals who are just about to lose their lives or having no benefit other than traumatising activists further? These questions and more are explored in this…
Clients see therapists for a wide range of issues including divorce, physical abuse, addictions and eating disorders. They don’t necessarily need to have personally suffered from these challenges to help. But what if you’re suffering from vystopia? Would you feel heard by a non-vegan therapist? If your problems aren’t about vystopia, could you compartmentalise your…
Calling all Vegans is podcast coming out of Toronto, Canada where Sue Spahr and Alec Bosse interview vegans all over the world to share their wisdom and teaching to more quickly usher in this new era. In this 60-min podcast I explore the bigger systematic issues behind creating real societal change and how we can…
When vegans are asked if it’s difficult to be vegan, they invariably say that not being a vegan that is difficult but living in a non-vegan world with values and attitudes that resist what is a philosophy of kindness, compassion, health and environmental respect. The following article, “Vystopia: Can leading a vegan lifestyle make you…
2019 is poised to be the Year of the Vegan, so why aren’t we all excited, instead cynical that a vegan world is possible? Watch this 4 min video on why we need to be excited to make it happen and escape the pain of this not-yet vegan world. Sites Mentioned: http://onegreenplanet.org http://gaia.com http://plantbasednew.org http://livekindly.co
The Animal Rights Conference 2018 in Los Angeles was an inspiring event welcoming animal protection groups and individual activists all over the world to both share and learn tools and techniques to create a vegan world. One of those activists was Chucho Merchan, a highly talented musician who was the artistic director for eight years…
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