Vegan Activism

There are many ways to be an animal activist. Just being a personal witness is in itself powerful. Some decide to protest in the streets, in the supermarket aisles and outside local butchers. Some encourage their local fish and chips shop to have a vegan night using Banana Blossom as a fish alternative. Some go out and about talking to people, challenging their positions and uploading the resulting conversations onto You Tube. There is no one size fits all. 

Here are some of our news stories on vegan activism:

• a gruesome “die-in” at a well-known butcher in Toronto which was impactful because of the paraticularly graphic nature of the photogenic protest, photographs of which were spread virally by the popular city guide website;
• three barbers in New Orleans urging the black community to go vegan;
• a vegan activist being appointed as a personal advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister on animal rights;
• a billboard towering over Chennai promoting veganism to counter water shortages;
• a US national food truck day taking vegan food on the road;
• Starbucks customers demanding that the chain drip its plant-based milk surcharge;
• New Zealand activists putting anti-meat stickers on meat products in supermarkets;
• men fined for eating dead squirrels in anti-vegan protests outside a vegan stall;
• a vegan sues her neighbours in Perth for having barbecues in their backyard;
• Lush closes for a day to allow its staff to join the climate strike; 
• a vegan activist in Spain rescues a rabbit but it goes all wrong;
• a vegan family of five from Cornwall claim they are bullied owing to their lifestyle;
• Esther the Wonderpig meets Greta Thunberg;
• Animal Rebellion takes over the Smithfield meat market in the City of London;
• a nine-year old boy becomes a certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator;
• Costa under fire for serving non-vegan fruit;
• opinions are divided on Mr Broccoli’s performance on television;
• Anonymous for the Voiceless create a Cube of Truth in Newport High Street;
• an activist rescues Jixy Pixy the pig and takes him to her home in London;
• President Trump offered a $1m charity bribe to Make America Healthy Again if he goes vegan for just one month:
• Veganuary is planning to promote the vegan challenge with television advertisements;
• Cambridge University students have 17th Century oil painting of dead animals removed from college dining hall.