Kilkenny 2011

I was very pleased to accept an invitation from a vocational school in Kilkenny to give a talk on vegan abolitionism and the different theoretical approaches to animal ethics.

Many thanks to the students, all busy working on their Animal Care course, who listened intently and asked searching questions in the long Q&A we enjoyed after the initial presentation. So involved were we that we took up all our allocated time, from 9am to 1pm, covering such issues as vegan philosophy, animal rights and animal welfare, the animal rights position on pets, how farmers would transition from producers of animal products to producers of plant-based foods, media and social movements, how social movement messages are received by the general public, reducing the harm vegans cause to nonhuman animals, political campaigning, how children are socialised to become "animal harming animal lovers," and so on.

A special thanks goes to tutor Patrizia Setola for organising the event.