I had a nice experience this afternoon.
I put on a new “Vegan” t-shirt I bought at Summerfest ( https://summerfest.navs-online.org/about-vegan-summerfest/) and headed down to the mall in Washington D.C.
I walked around a lot on the mall and spent a lot of time at the Hirschorn.
Two strangers in two separate incidents stopped me and told me that they really liked my t-shirt with “Vegan” in big letters on it.
A lot of people and organizations are “afraid” to use the “v-word” ( “vegan” ) for fear of “scaring” people away by “setting the bar too high”, so many orgs use “vegetarian”. Having done a lot of direct work with the public there is a lot to this idea.
I’m sure that is still true, but my experiences today make me hopeful that as with its predecessor “vegetarian”, “vegan” is moving away from being a “dirty word” in the United States.
I believe “dirty words” stop being dirty words when people use them.
My experiences today have encouraged me to keep using the word “vegan” instead of “vegetarian” whenever I can.
Here is a picture of the t-shirt
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Can you post a link to a pic of your t-shirt?
I edited my post and linked to a picture of it ( now smelly from walking around in the humidity of D.C. today )
You can get it at http://www.veganessentials.com or http://www.veganshirt.com/
I’ve gotten a lot of good responses from the vegan clothes I’ve worn. A lot from wearing a “Herbivore” hoodie, too.
Heh, I have that same shirt 🙂 I loooove it!!
(Followed the link to your blog from the VFF)
Cool.
Thanks for the context Jessica, it is always nice to have an idea of who is making comments 🙂