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What are the psychological challenges of being vegan in this not-yet vegan world? What tools can we use to break the trance of people’s actions that contribute to so much suffering for animals, themselves and our planet?

Puerto Rico-based Francisco Alvarez, Veganpreneur and creator of the Vegan Lives platform and interview series, interviews vegans all over the globe to encourage sharing of solutions to thrive as a vegan whilst being part of the solution to create a vegan world.

In this 40-min interview we discuss powerful tools to use to break the trance of carnist ideology and invite people to return to their vegan roots of non-violence.

Since March 2020 I have been running a series of webinars entitled, Second Stage Vystopia: What Else Don’t We Know with Mark Doneddu (founder of World Vegan Day Melbourne and President of Veg Vic Australia).

We recently pre-recorded an interview with Derrick Broze of the Conscious Resistance Network. Derrick is a freelance investigative journalist, documentary film maker, author, and public speaker who seeks to expose corruption, find solutions to the problems that affect all humanity, and promote localisation and decentralisation.

Derrick is a vegan and his focus is on exposing the wider application of non-violence towards others. He explains how we can use this in all areas of our lives—our health, relationships, politics, and society—in order to create a world in which we all wish to belong.

In this 60-min conversation, we cover:

• Polarisation and division in the vegan community;
• The cost of focusing on one area of liberation whilst ignoring the bigger picture;
• A brief history of oppression and how 2020 events are furtherance of a model that is millennia-old.;
• How Agorism and Freedom Cells can help us prepare for the imminent changes that intend to reduce our freedoms even further.

Both Mark and I finished this interview feeling hopeful and inspired that current world events are actually inviting us to embrace a wider definition of veganism to include humans. This might sound obvious, but the non-aggression principle of Agorism  invites vegans to extend their compassion to all humans, and encourages non-vegans to include animals in all aspects of the non-initiation of violence.

If you are ready to play your part in the solution to truly create animal and human liberation, it’s worth exploring Agorism and the non-initiation of force in more depth. It is a completely different way of thinking and acting, to break away from the millennia-long oppression that continues to cause animal and human slavery.

Below is a sample of the interview. For the full interview and others in the series, visit https://veganpsychologist.com/2ndStage

Many people upon becoming vegan say, “I only feel good around vegans. I feel I have found my family. They really get me!” It’s therefore distressing when vegans discover in-fighting in person or social media and feel desperate that this detracts from advocating for animal liberation.

In a panel at the Adelaide Vegan Festival 2019, a panel of well-known vegans joined together to explore this topic and suggest ways in which we can ensure we keep firmly focused on animal social justice.

Wwatch this panel discussion with You-Tubers That Vegan Couple, Luke Weber, Kristy Alger – Animal Liberation Tasmania and Vegan Psychologist Clare Mann.