[Press release] The Vegan Society Welcomes the Removal of Veganism from NHS Prevent [counter-terrorism] Training
[Press release] The Vegan Society Welcomes the Removal of Veganism from NHS Prevent [counter-terrorism] Training
Following involvement by The International Rights Network (IRN) and Dr. Jeanette Rowley, The Vegan Society’s legal expert on human rights, veganism has now been removed from the NHS Prevent counter-terrorism training materials. Prevent, part of the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy, is desi...
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Why was veganism anywhere near terrorism? Veganism and terrorism do not belong in the same sentence unless "is not" is between them.
Well you see, if you don't turn veganism into a bogeyman at every turn, you might encourage people to think critically about the merits of veganism and actually try it themselves, and that might challenge the status quo and result in lost profits for the animal agriculture industry.
It's so interesting to me now that veganism is starting to gain an honest-to-goodness foothold in the public consciousness seeing the ridiculous lengths lobbies will go to to try to stop the beginning of the end of their industry.
For the same reasons that abolitionists are always considered insurgents against the states that practice slavery.
Why was veganism anywhere near terrorism?
probably because of ALF 🤷
The pamphlet referred to veganism in general, and one out of every 25 people in the UK is vegan. This would be like saying "Hey, better watch out if your coworker starts wearing a hijab", or better yet "Coworker talking about being more environmentally friendly? Probably an eco-terrorist."
It was completely ridiculous. If you're offering what you think is their reason for doing this, then the actual information they put in the pamphlet doesn't reflect that. If you're attempting to justify this, you're off the mark.
Disgraceful it was there in first place.
Mighty American of you to have put it there, UK.
The Prevent stuff is all a bit... Murican