Veganismus - handling prejudices

Mainly vegan living pupils participated in the study. (openPR) - if one in refectories only salad to eat can, not only of schoolmates, but also by teachers, partly even with sausage thrown and also at home only on lack of understanding discovers and everyone is gemobbt waits that this goes „to phase “soon to end, if one wants to live regularly with comments like „also plants “is confronted and is completely abgemagert, if everyone speaks around around only a pig roast over leckeren and one will soon die - then one lives probably vegan.

Which a little was exaggerated summarized here, the result of the study is „Veganismus - handling prejudices “in that so far 35 participants, from Germany and Austria to have participated. Here I would like to thank you all completely cordially for it. I study material school teaching profession at the educational university in Karlsruhe and primarily for vegan/vegetarian living children and young people looked and her asked, as it is issued them in the society - particularly at schools - with its way of life. A third of the asked ones is old between 16 and 17 years, the youngest one 10 and the oldest one 43.

The most usual prejudices mentioned read „vegane nutrition make ill “through „deficiency symptoms “, „one can practically nothing more eat “, „humans have always meat eaten “, „the animals die anyway - one cannot change with its way of life anything in it “in addition become „for eggs and milk no animals killed “and „for Veganer is cranks “and/or „religious fanatics “, besides there are „as Grassfresser still eats one from the cows the fodder away “, „Veganer is liars (which they do not tell for example about livestock transports are correct) “and „veganes meal is boring and does not taste not “. Synonymously for Veganer „Körnerfresser is used “, vegan is the epitome for „benefit renouncement “and „vegetarians eats fish “. This list can be resumed endlessly. The following statement astonished me however: „if we would not eat the animals, then they would eat us “- and I think of cows, pigs, chickens and fish. How is one to react to such a statement appropriately

The participants are nearly unanimous the opinion the fact that they get involved only in a discussion, if they see a sense behind it and an interest of the Gegenübers to feel, otherwise ignores them the saying. Step by step they try to meet then the asking argumentatively with facts (for example that in sausage more added are than into Tofu or the effects of the consumption of animal products), because in principle can one each prejudice disprove. And in addition they have usually a large knowledge, whereas you feel opposite fast a kind inferiority. Did they know that most Fleischesser eats meat only very rarely and if, then only to bio quality to seize At least Omnivore, if they believe, say that to justify itself to have - the numbers however speak another language. Partly they do not even know, what means „vegan “.

In addition the Tierrechtler clears up with its personal motives vegan to live, without inducing the other one its opinion up obligations and this only to thinking. But they partly use films and Flyer or invite an animal protection teacher into instruction. „I inform it mainly about the circumstances, in which an animal must live, around it into the benefit from meat to to bring “, say a 17-jährige Teilnehmerin. Otherwise everyone deals differently with prejudices. The one takes off its T-Shirt, in order to demonstrate that he eats more than only grains and the other one lives already so long vegan that no more keeps seriously by the fact firm to its acquaintance that Veganismus makes krankt. Some are active in addition in a group of animal rights, carry T-Shirts with veganen messages or past Veganismus simply „only “. It is common to them that each particular wants to be accepted as humans.

Since the same prejudices emerge again and again and justify themselves Veganer/vegetarians again and again similarly, some feel with the time gene FFS. Disappointed are some if they want to bring along something to meals and not to cost or always say their acquaintance times that it would not taste, although they would eat it, if one would not say to them that it vegan is, as many determined. Some believe that they receive with the time stronger a self-confident its, because they must maintain ground again and again against a majority. They have themselves consciously to live from solidarity opposite the animals, decided, vegan and from this draw them new Kraft over to hold out again and again. Isn't it unfair that Veganer are to justify themselves everywhere for their way of life and one listens to them not times correctly then and about missing tolerance talks, if one is to justify oneself in response, why one animal products consumed As a conscientious objector to justify itself and not a soldier must. Moved world…

That it does not only concern with the Veganismus/Vegetarismus a phase, one sees to the fact that some already live for twelve years vegan and also their children, if they at all which want, accordingly „educates “or that would already do. If the partner agrees and can to the child decide. Most see the principal reason, why someone begins again to consume animal products in the fact that one does not bear the Ausgrenzung any longer.

It is interesting that most had the asked one even no prejudices, before they became vegetarians, but the same prejudices opposite Veganismus to partly have, as Omnivore. Why they do not make it like the 17-jährige junior high school student: „I had only a few health doubts opposite Veganismus, which dissolved however very fast in air, after I had informed. “Others know already that they at the latest if them from at home are taken off vegan will live.

Veganismus is not brought up for discussion usually at all at schools and if, then usually only on initiative particulars cut and then Vegetarismus and Veganismus off rather badly. One cooks at schools, then mostly not times vegetarian. Topics leave themselves like „livestock transports “, „have animals one became “, „world hunger problem “, „environmental pollution “or „healthy nutrition “completely easily in fan such as biology, ethics and/or religion integrate.

Ausgrenzung happens above all, where it concerns the meal - at the kiosk, in the refectory, with class travels and meetings. A 14-Jährige asks therefore: “Credit of people only agony products in the house” Usually Veganer/vegetarians themselves must worry about their food supply. Thus they are pushed automatically and stigmatisiert into an outsider role, although it gives „for nearly all alternatives “- prejudices as „vegan do not live are “remain societyable thereby existing. In addition, if it does not concern the meal, disadvantages take place. For example if one refuses in biology a brain to dissect and but receives the note six. If I read then still lines like these: „[I feel] socially expenditure-bordered, although I did not bekehrt anybody “, the bare presence as disturbing am thus already felt, then that tunes me sadly. The following action of a pupil looks for successors: It has so long a Shirt with the label „I is carried for more vegetarian and veganes to eat at the buffet “, until it got its will.

The 13. Question reads: „Which should is changed (particularly at schools), so that you feel you in the society „better “ “In schools there should not only be an offer at veganem/vegetarian meal, including a marking obligation, which would benefit Allergikern again. The topic „animal rights “belongs into the curriculum and is to come in subjects such as biology, ethics and religion to the language, in order to clear up for example over mass animal husbandry. „It is missing at a fundamental clearing-up, from kindergartens to universities “, means a Veganerin, which nourishes even its domestic animals vegan. The fact that pupils are gehänselt due to their way of life should be prevented and trips would have to be made slaughter houses instead of to zoos. Veganismus/Vegetarismus should become a part of the cook training. In addition one should update the nourishing pyramid and consider subsidies in the Viehwirtschaft. Or other one could be changed already today!

Who remains open and does not lock, perhaps it recognizes that his past life of full contradictions is. It applies to overcome in the following prejudices and tune possibly it then the 19-jährigen Veganerin too: „If one as much animal wrong sees, does not want one it eh no more to eat! “Thinking it of it after.
Further information as well as free starter kits to the Veganismus receive them under: www.v-heft.de

Silke Bott, animal protection teacher
www.tierschutz-im-unterricht.de

Gladly they can participate further in the study, contact them me please (bott.silke@web.de), then send I them the questionnaire or fill out them these directly here anonymous: www.vitavegetare.com/de/voting2.php

Animal right action Karlsruhe
Silke Bott
Uferstr. 47
75323 bath game bath

With the animal right action Karlsruhe acts it around a union of autonomous animal-right-learns itself and local's groups of “humans for animal rights”, “vebu4you”, “VEBU”, “PETA” and “React”.

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