VegfestUK Scotland

Vegan Vision (Sunday only)
Sessions in vegan advocacy and living with internationally-respected experts
in food and nutrition, animal rights and cruelty-free living.
Sponsored by Mono Cafe Bar.
Kindly hosted by author and activist Kim Stallwood.
Sunday
11:00 Dr Melanie Joy - Speaking Truth to
Power: Being an Empowered Vegan in an
Animal-Eating Culture
12:00 Dr Richard Twine - Understanding Vegan
Transition
1:00 Professor Erica Fudge - The History of the
Vegetable Eaters
2:00 Libby Anderson - How You Can Make a
Difference for Animals in Scotland and
Beyond
3:00 Dr Matthew Cole and Dr Kate Stewart -
Animals, Children, and Vegan Living
4:00 ‘Vegan Any Questions’ panel
Dr Matthew Cole and Dr Kate Stewart -
Animals, Children, and Vegan Living
Animals, in the form of ‘pets’, ‘cuddly toys’ or ‘cute’ media characters
are often used to invite children’s affection, love and compassion.
But often this takes place at the very same moment as children
are encouraged to (unwittingly) participate in the exploitation
of animals – think ‘happy meal’ tie-ins where a child can eat a
hamburger at the same time as playing with a toy animal from Babe
or The Lion King. This talk explores how this muddled thinking is
encouraged throughout our culture, but also how to reverse the
process through introducing children and their caregivers to vegan
living.
Dr Melanie Joy -
Speaking Truth to
Power: Being an
Empowered Vegan
in an Animal-Eating
Culture
In this presentation, we examine
the ways that carnism, the invisible
belief system that conditions
people to eat animals, distorts vegans’ perceptions of themselves,
others, and veganism. We then discuss how how recognizing
these distortions can lead to personal empowerment and the
empowerment of the vegan movement.
www.carnism.org
Dr Richard
Twine -
Understanding
Vegan Transition
In this talk I reflect upon my
research as a sociologist
into the question of vegan
transition. During 2013
I interviewed vegans in
Glasgow, Manchester and
Lancaster about their
narratives of transition. I
explore what we can learn
for broader attempts to
veganize society from such
rich detailed accounts of the
everyday possibilities, joys,
pains and obstacles of vegan transition. I argue that lessons can be
learnt from such accounts and they can go some way to providing
the animal rights movement with a much needed understanding
of social change.
www.richardtwine.com
Professor Erica Fudge - The History of
the Vegetable Eaters
This talk will look at the strange history of vegetarianism in England:
at the radical nature of the ‘vegetable diet’ in the seventeenth
century, and at how different from, and similar to it, our conception
of veganism is today.
www.strath.ac.uk/staff/fudgeericaprof
Libby
Anderson
- How You
Can Make a
Difference for
Animals in
Scotland and
Beyond
OneKind is an animal
protection charity based
in Edinburgh working
to end animal suffering
through campaigns,
research and education.
In this talk I will explain
how a very small charity
seeks to influence
politicians and the public and how we decide our main policy
positions and campaign priorities. Current campaigns focus on the
pet trade, especially exotic pet-keeping; the protection of free-living
wild animals in the UK, and the effects of fox-hunting and snaring;
and the use of wild animals in circuses. Finally I will touch on next
year’s Scottish Parliamentary elections and what people can do to
get more action for animals in the next session.
www.onekind.org
‘Vegan Any Questions’ panel
Want to be vegan but don’t know where to start? Are you a vegan
but concerned about whether you’re eating enough protein?
Concerned about animals and want tips on how to make a
difference? Come to Vegan Any Questions where a panel of experts
will answer your questions.
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