What can I do to promote vegetarianism and veganism in my city?

I live In Gibraltar , its very small and we dont really have an active vegan or vegetarian community but I want to open peoples eyes up a little more but .. I'm 17 and my parents don't support me in this lol.

See this is the problem with you people you answer the wong questions. Your not a vegetarian fine I don't care but dont waste your time and my time answeing my question. I'm not preaching , thats for cults. And don't say ah but vegetarianism is a ....

Hey, don't mind the rude people; several of them come on the Veg section to preach at us quite often (and will never see the irony.)
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I think your first step would be to try to find some veggies in your school. Maybe you could find a few students and possibly even a veg teacher. You may be surprised and find some teens who would like to be vegetarian but don't know how to go about it, or are having bad experiences with their parents.

You should put up fliers in your school to find people who are interested. Perhaps you can ask your parents to set up a new email account (something vegetarian-y) because you wouldn't want your real email posted for all to see, and see if anyone contacts you.

You can also create a yahoo group using your email that you can post around the school.

As you can see just from posting this question, you will have to have thick skin to do this because you are probably going to get a lot of mean and nasty people who will want to mess with you at first.

If you do get potential members, make sure you meet in school at a time when a lot of people are around; you don't want any creepies to take advantage of the situation.

Even if you can get a small group together and at least one sympathetic teacher to help you, you can start brainstorming together about ways to share info or help teens/people who want to go veg but need help and information.

Heck, if you can't get a teacher, you can form an underground veg newsletter. Put together a double-sided, 1-page conversation and information sheet every month or two, go to your nearest copy store and make tons of copies and hand them out at school. You can even put your money together with your newfound veg classmates and get a P.O. Box where students can send questions and comments to help you figure out what issues to address next month.
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Edit- I am not sure where you live, but you may also be able to find vegetarian groups near you (cities, colleges etc.) that you can drive to or contact for help starting one up in your community.

Thanks and good luck.
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If nothing else, seeing how horrible some people can be when you mention your belief system shows the need for you to not hide your beliefs and for you to be proud of who you are.

A great book for coping with rudeness is "Living Among the Meat Eaters." Report Abuse

Listen to your parents. They have the wisdom of the ages. Keep your personal lifestyle decisions personal. Don't try to force others to fit your mold and hope they don't try to force theirs on you.

Why not put notes on bulletin boards about healthy eating. Explain why Vegetarian and vegans eating is a healthier eating way than eating dead animal. You can get the info you need from your local library in the Cook book area and just maybe your library might have a book on Vegetarianism! i got one but I bought mine at a book store.. It's titled Are U confused? it's all about vegetarianism! U could use the same title for your articles. If U want to you could write a book. Maybe open a Veggy Corner Cafeteria if you can cook good or at least know a good cook!

Go to the Peta site. You can sign up to do an
adopt a college program. Before that though,
ask the presidents of some of the local universi-
ties and community colleges if you can put
up a display and give people pamplets or
vegetarian starter kits on a voluntary basis.
This is a good way to meet other vegetarians
in your area also.

start you own TV show
do you have free cable TV show in Gibraltar
start there
and watch you peas & carrots

I have to say, i am a pescetarian, and from experience, if you start preaching stuff like this you get a load of **** from meat eaters, they just dont like it.
Its fine if you want to be proud of who you are, and actually amke a diff, but its pretty tough.

You arent going to "open anyones eyes"

we eat meat for many reasons.......

It makes us strong

it tastes good

we wouldnt be here if cave men at nothing but veggies, why do you think we evolved pointed teeth for tearing meat.

We actually work and people who do real work cannot survive on a vegan diet.

Dont ask dont tell........It is your personal choice. If you "open peoples eyes" by talking to them about it then you may get a knukle sandwich

shut up and MYOB

How about having a big pig roast. that always get a lot of people!!

well, I can obviouly say that you will pick Lilliayn for best answer but I would like to put my two cents worth in here:

I think what you're doing is great and no matter what people like Blue Sea are going to come and destroy you;re dreamsbut that doesn't mean that you have to stop them their. Your parents might disagree with u now but they will get used to it sooner or later. You have a right to make a difference. They have to back you up at some time in teh long run. They are many communities in which people like vegans and vegetarian go to. You can even make your own group. It may be hard to find vegans/vegetarians but you can start by making one. You can give people ideas and give them notice. Don't try to push them into being a vegetarian but make the aware of it. Because that's when people like Blue Sea start terrorising u for making them feel made for eating a burger.

Like I said, what you are doing is terrific and many people will block your way but that shoudn't stop u and you're not preaching, your just expressing your opinions and ideas and that's wonderful. and just because your 17 doesn't mean that you can't make a difference. am i right?

Good Luck!!!!

See, this is the problem with veggies...YOU PREACH!
Why don't you figure people are not as dumb as you think. And better yet can make up their own minds as to what to eat and what not to. Geez, just because someone enjoys a hamburger now and again doesn't mean they don't know or understand how to eat healthy.
Stop wanting so damn much attention.

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What is so funny and so small minded is that you assume from my answer that I eat red meat.