What is the Veggie Pride?
By Vegan Mum on Monday, February 15 2010, 20:00 - English - Permalink
It is unfortunately everywhere in the world that animals are massacred by the billions for human consumption. And everywhere in the world there are people who refuse to participate in this massacre. In the Veggie Pride, these people can have a way to express their decision and the reasons for it.
International definition of the Veggie Pride
1. The demonstration must be centered on the refusal to eat animals out of regard for the animals. Other motives to be a vegetarian - the environment, health, the third world... - must be either left out altogether or be given a clearly subordinate status.
2. The Veggie Pride must be a demonstration of individuals, who come to demonstrate as individuals. Associations and other groups may be present, but in a subordinate manner, for instance by participating in activities organized outside of the main demonstration.
3. Those individuals come to express the fact that they do not eat animals out of regard for the animals; and that they deem that right.
4. The participation in the demonstration is open to any person who refrains from eating animals out of regard for the animals (whether or not that person has additional motives to be vegetarian).
5. The demonstration asks society to accept an open debate on the issue of the consumption of meat in relation to the violence that it implies against the animals.
6. The demonstration is non violent, and, if possible, legal.
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