Vegans Are Monks. We Need a Role for Laypeople.
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Vegans Are Monks. We Need a Role for Laypeople.
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Veganism isn't scaling, but a two-tiered movement could.
In this follow-up to my last episode on the Forget Veganuary controversy:
* With meat consumption skyrocketing and rates of veganism stagnant, strategies focused on individual veganism appear to offer only limited potential for animal advocates.
* The small fraction who are vegan act as a symbolic vanguard, living out our vision for a world without animal exploitation. They also serve as the movement’s crucial activist base.
* We must find a way to expand the movement beyond the small vegan population without alienating our most dedicated supporters.
* The solution is to treat vegans as a priestly class, an elite cadre making a deep personal commitment to live out transformational values on behalf of a wider community, and deserving the utmost respect.
* To achieve this, we must let go of the idea that veganism is for everyone. We must offer a low-commitment way for animal lovers to align themselves with the vegan movement.
* Farmkind’s “offset” framing is the most general solution yet proposed, and it matches a rich historical precedent: the relationship between priestly/monastic elites and the lay communities that support them.
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