VegfestUK Scotland

People’s Vegan Activists
Summit (Sunday only)
A series of activists for the vegan lifestyle engaging in discussions/debates/
workshops about effective vegan outreach on Sunday
Sponsored by Yaoh
Sunday
10:30 - 11:25 The Grumpy Old Vegans - “The Times
They Are A-Changin’: Bringing Clarity and
Ease to Your Advocacy”
11:30 - 11:55 David Scott - Vegan in a Suit, Situational
Activism in the Corporate Community
12:00 - 12:55 Marcus Dredge - Vegan Education
Workshop
1:00 - 1:25 Kate FitzGibbon and the Grumpy Old
Vegans - The way to get our vegan world
1:30 - 1:50 Fat Gay Vegan - Golden rules for blogging
2:00 - 3:00 Prof. Gary L. Francione - Why Vegans
Should Not Support Welfare Reform
Campaigns, Single-Issue Campaigns, or
Groups that Promote Either (via Skype)
3:00 - 3:50 Prof. Gary L. Francione - Q&A (via Skype)
4:00 - 5:00 The Big Discussion - ‘Reducetarian -
should vegans promote this approach?’
10:30 – 11:25 -
Grumpy Old
Vegans - “The
Times They
Are A-Changin’:
Bringing Clarity
and Ease to Your
Advocacy”
In this workshop we will demonstrate that vegan advocacy from a
rights-based position using Abolitionist theory as a basis provides
advocates with focus and clarity and an unequivocal message that
listeners can easily understand.
www.facebook.com/GrumpyOldVegan
12:00 – 12:55 -
Marcus Dredge -
Vegan Education
Workshop
Marcus and Ruth Dredge,
presenters of The Species
Barrier Vegan Radio Show
and founders of education
group Vegan Outreach
Lincoln East Midlands,
offer advice on how best to
advocate for other animals.
From stalls to festivals and from articles to radio, they have a wide
range of relevant experiences to share.
www.thespeciesbarrier.com
1:00 – 1:25 - Kate
FitzGibbon - The
way to get our
vegan world
A brief window in the day
about practical, simple and
effective ways to shift the
paradigm away from animals
as commodities for us to use
to animals as members of the
moral community.
www.howdoigovegan.com
2:00 – 3:00 - Prof. Gary L. Francione
- Why Vegans Should Not Support
Welfare Reform Campaigns, Single-
Issue Campaigns, or Groups that
Promote Either (via Skype)
Welfare reform campaigns and single-issue campaigns necessarily
involve the promotion of animal exploitation. The groups that
promote them claim that they are effective and practical. There is
no empirical evidence to support that view and, in any event, these
campaigns are explicitly and overtly speciesist.
www.abolitionistapproach.com
3.00 – 3:50 - Prof. Gary L. Francione -
Q&A (via Skype)
Ask Prof. Francione anything in this interactive Q&A session with
the audience, conducted via Skype.
4:00 – 5:00 - The Big Discussion -
Reducetarian - should vegans promote
this approach?
Should vegans be promoting reducetarian as an option for
pre-vegans? Or should vegans make it loud and clear without
compromise that 100% veganism is a moral imperative, and
anything less implies supporting continued animal exploitation?
Join the big discussion on this recently hotly-debated topic. Vegfest
Scotland / VegfestUK organiser Tim Barford and the Grumpy Old
Vegans will discuss this topic and invite members of the audience
for some questions & answers.
11:30 – 11:55
- David Scott -
Vegan in a Suit,
Situational
Activism in
the Corporate
Community
This workshop will consider
the lessons learned from
many hundreds of business
networking events involving
food and drink by never compromising on vegan ethics. How the
business landscape is improving for vegans and ways you can
apply the lessons to your own situations networking with nonvegans
at work, at home or at social events.
www.beyonder.org.uk
1:30 – 1:55 - Fat Gay Vegan - Golden rules
for blogging
Ever wanted to write your own vegan blog but didn’t know where
to start? Join blogger Fat Gay Vegan for an informal and informative
discussion all about the basics of blogging. FGV will discuss how he
got his start, his golden rules for blogging and how blogging can be
a launch platform for many other exciting forms of vegan activism.
Come with questions!
www.fatgayvegan.com
20 | VegfestUK www.vegfest.co.uk www.vegfest.co.uk
VegfestUK | 21