I don’t think animal consumption can be offset by donating. A life isn’t something you can compensate for — it’s either taken or it isn’t. Treating it like a balance sheet misses the point.
Veganism matters as a baseline because it rejects animals as commodities. If people believe they can keep eating animals as long as they donate, animals remain products — just with a price attached. If demand continues, exploitation continues.
Liz Flynn
Found & Direct the Vegan and Animal Rights Conference (VARC)
Creating the infrastructure needed for lasting change.
Exciting to see this coming to Manchester—I had been contemplating it myself!
Unfortunately can’t make this one, but hope there will be more opportunities