Earlier this month, an artist I met in a Patreon Zoom call checked out my work and then asked:
Do you have a plan for how you speak to nonvegans? Are you welcoming to everyone? I’m sure many potential supporters are interested in the vegan idea but maybe they don’t want to go the whole hog.
My intent is inclusive, I said. And many members of the audiences I meet (at congregations, schools, conferences and fairs) are not vegan.
Most of the people I meet do know something about habitat loss, rainforest devastation, and climate disruption. And I explain how these issues are directly connected to veganism.
I make my best effort to relate to people straightforwardly, explaining what I know, what’s connected to their concerns, my own thought process. But I never sugar-coat the subjugation. I can’t speak about it in a clinical way. I can’t distance myself from oppression in order to feel welcoming to everyone.
It’s always up to people to change themselves. They can take what they need from me, and leave the rest. And I do hope they might be moved, either at the moment or down the road, to become vegan.
I never suggest half-measures. I think it’s only fair to liberate the whole hog! So I tell them.
Vegan Place 
I agree, Lee! And, there are unforeseen negative consequences of speaking and acting in half-measures or taking a bandaid approach rather than root-cause/radical. I think the animal advocacy movement has been weakened primarily by watering down our message to be more palatable to the public. I’d rather work on those open to our “whole Earth” message because if we shift hearts within that group, it *is *enough to create a total love-vegan evolution/revolution. HUGS!
Thank you, Charlotte.