When vegans crashed our mindful meat workshop. Could we find common ground?
Our mindful rabbit skinning class was shut down by vegan protestors, it raised lots of questions about eating animals and plants.
Yesterday we were shut down by vegan protestors.
After all the debate we had about it online, and the rescheduling, four rather angry, intimidating, and determined vegan fundamentalists, arrived uninvited and disrupted our infamous How to Skin a Rabbit class.
It didn’t get ugly but it was unpleasant and upsetting, to say the least. We tried talking to them, to explain what we were doing and why. They weren’t interested.
We tried asking them to leave. They just said, “make us.”
We tried quietly carrying on with what we were doing. But it was impossible to hear each other above all the shouts and aggressive chanting, let alone have a conscious exploration of what it means to eat meat.
We all felt pretty powerless in the face of this onslaught. I know I did.
After about an hour of relentless pressure, we gave up and stopped the class. And the rabbits stayed in the box.
