Reason is Not Enough

Have you ever wondered why is it so hard to convince someone to go vegan?

We don't need to tell you how morally initiatory and how nutritiously simple veganism is.

So how come it is so hard, even for many people who define themselves as "animal lovers", to become vegans?

Could it be that the obstacle to veganism is the messengers? Not enough health food stores? The price of soy milk? Not enough vegan celebrities? Not enough visual evidence about what is going on in factory farms?

You know it is not any of these.

The animal rights arguments are so simple and right. They are based on solid facts and evidences. Nobody can confront them rationally.

So why is it so hard to convince someone to go vegan?

The reason is that reason is not enough. Good arguments are not relevant.

Rationality is not enough in this world. It has proved itself as an insufficient element in order to change people’s habits.

Rationality can’t beat motivation.

"... humans are much more social than rational creatures. In everyday life on average, people try to merge into society, behave correspondingly, and afterwards rationalize their behaviour, i.e. find "rational" reasons why they act as they act. This observation is so obvious that it does not seem to merit quoting empirical support."
- Martin Balluch -

* Non-quotation text taken from the Only One Solution website.

Vegan Education - the problem is with the addressees

Gary Francione is wrong. The world is not vegan and as long as humans exist, it never will be.
To think creative vegan education can somehow, sometime, cause the human race to act in non-speciesist manner is to ignore human nature.

How high the human barrier is?

Excellent & comprehensive explanations are given by the Only One Solution team on their FAQ page:
1. Why not work hard to make a vegan world?
2. Social revolutions are possible. Don’t you believe a revolution in the way society seize non human animals is possible?
3. The human race perspective on itself and on the world has changed through time and will keep on changing, all we need is to be patient

One way the team from WhyCulturedMeat.org try to confront vegan educators/converters is by asking "If an individual is a good person, rational, intelligent, loving and caring, even wealthy, how come he/she is not a vegan?". Then, they give plenty of examples to support their position.

Do you still believe a vegan world is possible?