Take my poll about vegetarian advocacy, please?

Question

1. Of these, which do you think are the FOUR (4) most effective ways of promoting vegetarianism / veganism?

A. Handing out pamphlets in a busy area

B. Posting fliers on bulletin boards & other places

C. Online activism, like posting videos on YouTube or answering questions on Y!A

D. Tabling (staffing a table with free literature)

E. Sharing veg food with friends & family

F. Participating in protests / rallies

G. Hosting video screenings or showing videos to friends and family

H. Writing letters to the editor

I. Asking restaurants or grocery stores to add veg options

J. Talking to people about vegetarianism

K. Acting as a walking billboard for vegetarianism through bumper stickers, t-shirts, pins, etc.

L. Living by example

M. Other (Explain)

2. If you’re vegetarian, did you become vegetarian as a result of someone calling you names or criticizing you for eating meat?

A. Yes

B. No

3. Are you either vegetarian or vegan?

A. Yes

B. No

Thanks for your help with this informal research!

Answer 1

It's hard to pick just four of those that are most effective.

I've found handing out pamphlets and tabling to be VERY effective.  Sharing veg food with family has gotten my mom and sister eating less meat.  And writing letters to the editor, I hope, has made people think.  But I can't know how effective it is.  I frequently talk to people, often about foods I enjoy.  I try to find the gentlest ways possible of telling them the horrors of these industries.  I only hope it has made people think as well.

2) No.  I went veg because eating meat ceased being enjoyable.  

3) Yes.  I'm vegan.

Answer 2

1. E, I, J (definitely J!!), L

2. No

3. Yes (Vegan!)

Answer 3

1 - B, C, D, I

2 - NA

3 - B

Answer 4

1. E. I, J, L

2. B

3. A

Answer 5

L.Living by example

E.Sharing veg food with friends & family

M supporting postive education programs ( such as veggie culinary schools, awareness campaigns, veggie charities, supporting veggie startup companies )

M: running a veggie friendly business, it also helps with leading by example

Thats my top 4, now for the others in order of how i see them ( best first )

I.Asking restaurants or grocery stores to add veg options

J.Talking to people about vegetarianism ( if asked )

H.Writing letters to the editor

D.Tabling (staffing a table with free literature)

A.Handing out pamphlets in a busy area

C.Online activism, like posting videos on YouTube or answering questions on Y!A

F.Participating in protests / rallies

K.Acting as a walking billboard for vegetarianism through bumper stickers, t-shirts, pins, etc.

G.Hosting video screenings or showing videos to friends and family

but i think that order says more about my style than about whats right or wrong

2. If you’re vegetarian, did you become vegetarian as a result of someone calling you names or criticizing you for eating meat?

B.No

3. Are you either vegetarian or vegan?

A. Yes Veggie

Answer 6

1. C, E, J, L

2. B (No)

3. A (Yes)

you're welcome =)

Answer 7

1)

E, I, K, L but my favorite is to live by example.  Plenty of times I have people surprised by my age... I'm 28 but many think I'm 20 or 21... I tell them maybe it cause I don't eat animal flesh?

2) No

3) Vegetarian

Answer 8

question 1]

1. best is live it and love the food choices that taste good.

2. cook wonderful tasting foods for meals and for friends

3. share the benifits of healthful eating not just the parts of vegetarain but the nutritional value of eating healther alternatives.

a protest is an agravation even to the vegetarian. besides it only make the meat eater dig in more.

question 2

no. it was a choice first by my mother who was vegetarian 66 years of live and second because the hapenstances to the problem of one taste of meat was for me not what people make it out to be one bite of red meat was more like blood and enzyme flavors and not the yum i was told about and no i got it from an order gone awary not by ordering it.

question 3

yes vegeterian 48 years.

Answer 9

1. Of these, which do you think are the FOUR (4) most effective ways of promoting vegetarianism / veganism?

A. Handing out pamphlets in a busy area

B. Posting fliers on bulletin boards & other places

C. Online activism, like posting videos on YouTube or answering questions on Y!A

D. Tabling (staffing a table with free literature)

E. Sharing veg food with friends & family

F. Participating in protests / rallies

G. Hosting video screenings or showing videos to friends and family

H. Writing letters to the editor

I. Asking restaurants or grocery stores to add veg options

J. Talking to people about vegetarianism

K. Acting as a walking billboard for vegetarianism through bumper stickers, t-shirts, pins, etc.

L. Living by example

M. Other

Starting your own non-profit vegetarianism advocacy group which does ALL of the above. Which I did when I was in college

2. If you’re vegetarian, did you become vegetarian as a result of someone calling you names or criticizing you for eating meat?

B. No

3. Are you either vegetarian or vegan?

Vegan 15 yrs

Answer 10

1.  E, G (Earthlings), J, L

2.  No

3. Yes, lacto-ovo vegetarian

Answer 11

B, E, J, L

I became vegetarian for animal rights and the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Yes, Vegetarian

Answer 12

1.  C, G, F, B

2. B

3. A

Answer 13

1.L,J,E,I

2.no

3.yes

(vegetarian)

Answer 14

1. a

2. b

3. a

Answer 15

Hi, In no particular order :)

L. Living by example.

I. Asking restaurants/grocery stores to add veggie meals, people might be tempted to taste them that are not veggie and will able to see we can eat tasty meals.

E. sharing food with family and friends, my friends and family have all taken recipes off me, and cooked them, then they have also passed them on again, one of my friends was so impressed with my food she now eats very very little meat and replaces it with quorn etc.

D. tabling.  People that might be thinking of going veggie/or curious would probably really interested, and it might take them to the next step to becoming veggie!

2.  no and yes.

Answer 16

1. a, c, d, g.

2. b - it was a personal choice to better my health, and for my love of animals.

3. a - vegetarian.