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I find Internet discussions often aren't about the person I'm engaging with. It's more about the other people reading the comment. I mean how many have read this very comment? 🙂 Great point about canvasing. With time, I think we can all get quite good at finding open minded people. Through the pandemic hopefully many of us are finding ways to build respect for other animals online. There's so much we can do in this space. Great video Paula! 👍
Oh totally. The main thing is it's important to be aware of the fact that online debates aren't about convincing the other person, but rather having a solid argument that other people read. I feel like just knowing that takes a lot of the pressure off. You're totally right in that, right now, most activism needs to happen online. Maybe I'll do a video about online activism and how it works. My only concern is that there may be too many people focusing on online activism when there are low-hanging fruits that can make a much larger difference locally.
Thanks! What are your thoughts on canvassing for votes if you are running for public office in terms of effectiveness? Say you are having one on one conversations, leafleting etc. to convince people to vote for a particular candidate. Should this be supported by other goals such as fundraising or petitions?
Hello! Sorry for the late response I had wayy too much work on my plate. I've actually worked on multiple electoral campaigns and canvassing can be an effective strategy. It really depends on what resources you have, what your goals are, and who you want to cast a ballot. For example, I worked at an immigrant rights organization managing their civic engagement program. I coordinated phonebanks for them so we could call people who had recently gotten their citizenship and made sure they knew where to vote. In this case, calling people was the best use of our resources since all they needed was to know their polling location. On the other hand, I've canvassed for political candidates. The main thing about canvassing is that you need to organize large groups of people to canvas otherwise it won't make enough of a difference to change electoral results. However, when I did canvas, I was always told to ask for donations and volunteers if I felt that the person was interested. However, I wouldn't ask for a donation after persuading someone to vote for a candidate since that can be interpreted as pushy or manipulative. There's honestly just way too much information about canvassing to go over all of it here, but I could make a video or bring on a special guest to the channel to discuss all of the nuances. Also, your page looks super cool! I love that you have a Ph.D. and a TH-cam channel. We definitely need more people with expertise on youtube. Your accent is super cool too. Where are you from?
@@paulameninato8948 Thanks for the response! I'd be very interested in a video about canvassing. And thanks for the kind words! I'm from Adelaide, Australia.
If you are going to propose less nutritional meals for children that usually are already deficient you really need to dive in the nutritional aspect of what you are proposing, or you are just helping to harm them. In fact this would be a huge favor to the vegan movement since lack of adherence is one of the problems the movement faces and most of the movement revolves around being able to do the diet sustainably.
Quit being ridiculous. Vegan meals don't lack any nutrients. I know plenty of people who have been vegan from birth and have zero health issues. Also, when did I even mention giving vegan food to kids?
@@paulameninato8948 meatless mondays are being put in schools. We already have had this conversation, anecdotal cases are not good enough. Some people climb the Everest, some have to quit to not die. Bodies are different. Some convert carotens, some don't. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is no evidence of health outcomes from vegans even many being long term. Most of this long term vegans that people point to me as examples shows health issues symptoms that they ignore or don't connect with the diet. Lack of disease also is not optimal health. I have seen one of your friends in one video with almost white lips. Being mildly deficient is not good enough. You can't promote a health hazard for people as moral path. If you dont know enough about nutrition how can you say vegan meal don't lack nutrients? You can use the words of others to cover your activity, but when harm comes up, you will also be responsible, even that you probably will not be responsibilized. And yes, vegan meals lack nutrient, like K2 for instance, important for bone preservation and straigth teeth. Unless you use Natto as ingredient, which most vegans don't even know about. And many nutrients that are in plants may not be picked by the body anyway, so it's always a russian roulette with vegan meals. I'm talking with one "pale lips" vegan that says it's consuming 500% of folate (B9) according with nutrient track app and his level is low. I thought I was doing good convincing people to go vegan too, but I just helped people to start a self-harm game. I never believed it was not possible until it happened to me. I already told you that the vegan guidelines presented by ADA are mostly driven by adventists. This is like let creationists dictate evolucionism class content. They have no evidence. Please learn more about it. You only have to win by knowing about it.
@@dsoul1305 Meatless mondays introduce children to things like vegetables. I really don't see how anyone could have a problem with that. They can still bring their own food and order meals with animal products the rest of the week. It really just seems like you're trying to nitpick at the most ridiculous thing possible because you don't have an actual point. Everything you're telling me just sounds completely ridiculous, cherry-picked, and poorly researched.
@@dogmatictales strict vegetarians for how many years? I and many people I know tried with all the care and got harmed. This should be enough to have vegans attention, not dismissiveness.
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I find Internet discussions often aren't about the person I'm engaging with. It's more about the other people reading the comment. I mean how many have read this very comment? 🙂
Great point about canvasing. With time, I think we can all get quite good at finding open minded people.
Through the pandemic hopefully many of us are finding ways to build respect for other animals online. There's so much we can do in this space.
Great video Paula! 👍
Oh totally. The main thing is it's important to be aware of the fact that online debates aren't about convincing the other person, but rather having a solid argument that other people read. I feel like just knowing that takes a lot of the pressure off.
You're totally right in that, right now, most activism needs to happen online. Maybe I'll do a video about online activism and how it works. My only concern is that there may be too many people focusing on online activism when there are low-hanging fruits that can make a much larger difference locally.
Well said
Thanks!
Awesome summary! Hope more peeps see this.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your comment! Please send the videos to your friends if you want them to learn about this!
Thanks! What are your thoughts on canvassing for votes if you are running for public office in terms of effectiveness? Say you are having one on one conversations, leafleting etc. to convince people to vote for a particular candidate. Should this be supported by other goals such as fundraising or petitions?
Hello! Sorry for the late response I had wayy too much work on my plate. I've actually worked on multiple electoral campaigns and canvassing can be an effective strategy. It really depends on what resources you have, what your goals are, and who you want to cast a ballot. For example, I worked at an immigrant rights organization managing their civic engagement program. I coordinated phonebanks for them so we could call people who had recently gotten their citizenship and made sure they knew where to vote. In this case, calling people was the best use of our resources since all they needed was to know their polling location.
On the other hand, I've canvassed for political candidates. The main thing about canvassing is that you need to organize large groups of people to canvas otherwise it won't make enough of a difference to change electoral results. However, when I did canvas, I was always told to ask for donations and volunteers if I felt that the person was interested. However, I wouldn't ask for a donation after persuading someone to vote for a candidate since that can be interpreted as pushy or manipulative.
There's honestly just way too much information about canvassing to go over all of it here, but I could make a video or bring on a special guest to the channel to discuss all of the nuances.
Also, your page looks super cool! I love that you have a Ph.D. and a TH-cam channel. We definitely need more people with expertise on youtube. Your accent is super cool too. Where are you from?
@@paulameninato8948 Thanks for the response! I'd be very interested in a video about canvassing.
And thanks for the kind words! I'm from Adelaide, Australia.
Nice Video! :)
If you are going to propose less nutritional meals for children that usually are already deficient you really need to dive in the nutritional aspect of what you are proposing, or you are just helping to harm them.
In fact this would be a huge favor to the vegan movement since lack of adherence is one of the problems the movement faces and most of the movement revolves around being able to do the diet sustainably.
Quit being ridiculous. Vegan meals don't lack any nutrients. I know plenty of people who have been vegan from birth and have zero health issues.
Also, when did I even mention giving vegan food to kids?
@@paulameninato8948 meatless mondays are being put in schools.
We already have had this conversation, anecdotal cases are not good enough. Some people climb the Everest, some have to quit to not die. Bodies are different. Some convert carotens, some don't. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is no evidence of health outcomes from vegans even many being long term. Most of this long term vegans that people point to me as examples shows health issues symptoms that they ignore or don't connect with the diet.
Lack of disease also is not optimal health. I have seen one of your friends in one video with almost white lips. Being mildly deficient is not good enough. You can't promote a health hazard for people as moral path.
If you dont know enough about nutrition how can you say vegan meal don't lack nutrients? You can use the words of others to cover your activity, but when harm comes up, you will also be responsible, even that you probably will not be responsibilized.
And yes, vegan meals lack nutrient, like K2 for instance, important for bone preservation and straigth teeth. Unless you use Natto as ingredient, which most vegans don't even know about.
And many nutrients that are in plants may not be picked by the body anyway, so it's always a russian roulette with vegan meals. I'm talking with one "pale lips" vegan that says it's consuming 500% of folate (B9) according with nutrient track app and his level is low.
I thought I was doing good convincing people to go vegan too, but I just helped people to start a self-harm game. I never believed it was not possible until it happened to me. I already told you that the vegan guidelines presented by ADA are mostly driven by adventists. This is like let creationists dictate evolucionism class content. They have no evidence. Please learn more about it. You only have to win by knowing about it.
I and many people I know live on a whole food plants based diet, it's fine. But anyway, let's stay on topic.
@@dsoul1305 Meatless mondays introduce children to things like vegetables. I really don't see how anyone could have a problem with that. They can still bring their own food and order meals with animal products the rest of the week.
It really just seems like you're trying to nitpick at the most ridiculous thing possible because you don't have an actual point. Everything you're telling me just sounds completely ridiculous, cherry-picked, and poorly researched.
@@dogmatictales strict vegetarians for how many years?
I and many people I know tried with all the care and got harmed. This should be enough to have vegans attention, not dismissiveness.