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After 3 weeks of delay on presenting the earthlings video, when I finally got to present it, it turned out to be a big dissapointment. My other classmates were really interested in my drawings related to animals used for food, and the vegan cupcakes were a hit, but when it came time to watching the video people preferred to turn a blind eye, literally. Most of them didnt even stay for the intro. Though I expected some people to leave because of the heavy content, I didn't expect it to the extext that occured. By the end of it there were only 2 people there. Fortunately one of the girls said she was absolutely shocked by what she was saw and said that she was considering going vegetarian so I gave her some literature about the meat,dairy and egg industries. All in all, I was just dissappointed in the reaction, which was people quite literally walking away. i shouldn't have expectations, I know, but considering their sympathetic reaction to the drawings I produced, depicting the animal issues, in addition to the cupcakes, I suppose I expected a more open mind from more people. I was wrong. its times like that, that human nature ,in choosing to stay ignorant, just makes me mad. And now, in class everything is back to 'normal' people just act like nothing happened. Like they hadn't seen something that scared them into ignoring it completely, some of them even acted offended believe it or not. On a more positive note however, this weekend the vegetarian/vegan society here in Brisbane is organising a stall at an upcoming festival ,supposedly there's going to be something like 50,000 people coming to it, so I'm going to pitch in with that. All in all, in terms of my activism, and thanks alot to that post by DG, I'm sick of taking that apologetic approach in my veganism. I've had it.
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