Barefoot Vegan Mag Jan_Feb 2017

inviting others from various backgrounds and lifestyles
into our movement, including parents.
How are we going to convince others that we're a
social justice movement if we promote violence and
injustice among ourselves? How can we be taken seriously
when we speak out against violence towards non-human
animals while promoting or ignoring abuse towards our
fellow humans? It's time to get serious as a movement and
cut out the oppression, in all of its forms. BV
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In addition to his work
managing Vegan Publishers,
Casey Taft is Professor of
Psychiatry at Boston
University School of
Medicine. He is an
internationally recognised and
award-winning researcher in the
areas of trauma and the family. He has published
over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and
scientific reports, and has consulted with the
United Nations on preventing violence and abuse
globally. He sees the prevention of violence
towards animals as a natural extension of this
work. Visit the Vegan Publishers website and
connect with them via Facebook and Twitter.
NATURE VS. NUTURE?
“Parents are often bewildered when their
children who have been raised to hold certain
values, go on to reject those values later in
life. However, there is no insurance policy that
your children will follow your own values, even if
they have been subjected to them throughout
their developing years and seen those values
lived out in the family.
“Vegan parents often believe that one of the
biggest contributions they can make to a
creating a vegan world is to raise a child as
vegan. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that
those children raised as vegans will continue to
be when they grow up.
“It is healthy and essential for children to
develop an increasing autonomy and
independence so they can function effectively in
the world. This independent stance could mean
a child who is raised vegan will reject those
values and see their non-veganism as a form of
independence and defiance. However, upbringing
and culture is a major determinant of how
people behave so fortunately for many children
raised as vegan, they continue to be throughout
their lives.”
- Vegan psychologist, Clare Mann
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