Campaigners inviting Manchester to get on the vegan bus

Greater Manchester will experience a vegan onslaught tomorrow (Saturday, April 22) as Go Vegan World launches a major education drive in the city region.

The organisation, which claims to be the world’s largest and longest running vegan campaign, has 300 buses on the streets helping to teach people what it means to be vegan.

The efforts come in the run up to Vegan Street Education Day tomorrow when people will be able to experience veganism first hand with a variety of events including a virtual reality experience and vegan food tastings.

Campaign director Sandra Higgins said: “There is substantial research that demonstrates that other animals share the human capacity to be consciously aware and to suffer. Breeding them for our use and taking their lives is unjust.

“Even when the best of welfare standards are adhered to, they face rights violations and control by humans throughout their lives and death at a slaughterhouse at a very young age. It is impossible to regulate something that is inherently unjust.

“Not one of us would be willing to swap places with the animals we use”.

Higgins is the founder of the Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Ireland who are responsible for running the campaign.

So far, Manchester has seen large format digital screens at Printworks and the Arndale, 42 posters at Manchester Piccadilly and 200 bathroom ads, digital screens and billboards across the city, alongside 60 pavement impressions.

The idea is to teach people that animal rights are as important as humans and that we are not an inherently more significant species.

Go Vegan World also want to prove that humans can live healthy lives without using animal products such as food and clothing.

Higgins stresses that the issue is not just about animal lives but humans too. She claims that most Western children will develop early signs of heart problems as young as ten and that the most effective way to combat this would be adapting to a vegan diet.

She also said: “Most people are pleasantly surprised to find that it is easy and enjoyable to be vegan, especially when motivated by our deepest values of justice and fairness.”

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