Episode 52: Interview with Dr. Frances McCormack about asking questions to promote veganism, measuring our success as advocates, and holding veganism as a moral baseline

This week’s episode features my recent interview with the abolitionist vegan advocate Dr. Frances McCormack, who has been a vegan since 2010* and promotes the Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights.

In this interview, Frances tells me about the experiences that led her to become a vegan and find out about the Abolitionist Approach. We also discuss the role of asking questions in vegan advocacy conversations, how we can reflect on our progress as vegan advocates without using false measures of “success”, whether the concept of “carnism” helps or hinders discussions about veganism and animal rights, and why it’s important for vegans to promote veganism as a moral baseline and stay true to our ethical values, despite any social pressure to do otherwise.

Thanks to Frances for being a guest on the show!

* Coincidentally, 2010 is also the year that I became a vegan.

How to listen to this episode

There are two ways you can listen to this episode.

1. Listen to the episode on CKCU FM's website at https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/553/51639.html.
   
2. Listen to or download the podcast from Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/afar-april-14-2021.
   

You can also find Always for Animal Rights on Facebook and Instagram. If you'd like to receive an e-mail every time there is a new post on the AFAR blog, feel free to enter your e-mail address into the appropriate box in the right-hand sidebar of this site.

Go vegan, stay vegan, and let's remember to stand up and speak up for animal rights today and every day. Thanks for listening to the show!