What should be done? If, on the other hand, you are a passionate activist that doesn’t know that much about the topic at hand, you probably shouldn’t be writing petitions (or writing website FAQs or blog posts, or taking interviews with the media, or teaching students or people in the community). A petition that is ineffective, as in your example David Shiffman that you just state you’re unhappy with the status quo is exactly that: You grumble in a petition, but nothing happens, especially since corporations don’t care about you in particular.
Many petitions, however, are so badly written as to be ineffective or even counterproductive when it comes to influencing real policy change. Thank you David for this excellent advice!
Why don’t you instead contact an NGO that needs help and “do something” that can help? Point taken and I understand your viewpoint but people still will look for outlets to express themselves if they are truly concerned. The most useless form this activism takes is online petitions. Posted on February 26, 2013 by David Shiffman, Sites like Care2 and Causes, for better or for worse, make it easier than ever to write petitions. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. No-one is going to care if you have a thousand nameless internet people sign your petition to get your local council to build something. Nothing makes me dismiss a petition or a campaign more quickly then seeing a grand claim like your “humans cannot eat these fish” and knowing it to be false. Suggesting that the whole world turn vegan in response to a petition about overfishing is the intellectual equivalent of the “why can’t we all just get along” school of foreign policy and national security. We’ve written extensively about this subject on the blog, and I encourage you to check out: “13 wrong things about sharks that advocates should stop saying in 2013” (#12) http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=14034, “Sharks Create Oxygen?”
If they’re willing to do that at all, it may not be a solution you like. Obviously not. Not only does a vegan avoid supporting the production of animal products but one is also helping to create a market for cruelty-free products, making them more available and in turn, making it easier for other people to consider veganism. They\'re created by people too lazy to do the real thing, and then signed by people too stupid to understand, or not interested enough to care. Online petitions started as a simple way for users to digitally sign petitions, rather than in person, from clipboard carries or in local stores. A petition is often the start of a long fight for change. One of Modiâs favorite current campaigns is from US Youth Climate Strike (USYCS), asking 2020 Presidential candidates and the DNC to engage in debate about climate change.
If you are a passionate and knowledgeable individual activist, I strongly recommend that before writing a petition, first check if an established, respected scientific or conservation organization already has a petition about that topic. Like you say, be watchful, read carefully an apply judiciously. One can write to companies that manufacture food and nutritional supplements, and retailers that sell them, asking for vegan options. It is really easy to dismiss these out of hand, but if you want to see an example done right go to Save the Tarpon (dot) com. Do a good job, do it right the first time and try to not look like an idiot when you present something in public. I acknowledge that I’ve read the comments policy by declaring that my favorite style of barbecue is one with vegan food, such as tofu and soya burgers, and attended by other animal rights activists. There are a lot of ways in which to effectively work against meat consumption and fishing (especially commercial fishing). He tells me that the petition has garnered a lot of support for the youth activisits who created it, and has provided a platform for candidates to engage. If the only people who made petitions were those who could and would send an effective petition, how many people would know of the issue to make a decision to care? Allso I do advise you watch Sharkwater, because also the statement that it promotes violence against fishermen is misinformed, nothing like that occurs or is promoted in any way in the film what so ever. 3) Use a group or individual who can’t possibly help as your target. Even worse, they falsely perpetuate the idea that an activist has “done something” about the problem, which may prevent them from participating in a process that could result in real change. Sure they’re doing something – grumbling – but is that going to fix the issue? You stated that when you hear someone say something like ‘sharks are essential to our survival’ you think they ‘know nothing about science’. (http://fishbase.sinica.edu.tw/TrophicEco/FoodItemsList.php?vstockcode=4&genus=Engraulis&species=ringens).
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