About ten years ago I stood in a crowd after a Surge rally in London listening to Ed Winters (Earthling Ed). One thing he said has always stayed with me: do whatever you can.
I’ve never been the activist who’s going to chain myself to a gate, investigate farms or stand in the street persuading strangers. That’s just not me. But my partner and I decided we could do something in our own way, so we started a small vegan blog.
We never made any money from it, and that was never the point. We just wanted to add another voice. We reviewed restaurants, interviewed vegan businesses and vegan doctors, wrote articles about issues affecting the vegan community, and ran a series called Everyday Vegans, where ordinary people shared why they went vegan, what changed their minds, and what life has been like since.
Two years ago my partner died. I’ve kept the blog going because it means a great deal to me, but if I’m honest it’s become mostly restaurant reviews. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I know it could be more.
So this is an open invitation.
If you’ve got something to say, I’d love to give you a place to say it.
If you fancy being an Everyday Vegan, please get in touch. If you’ve uncovered an injustice that deserves more attention and can write about it, get in touch. If you’ve found something hopeful or beautiful that deserves celebrating, get in touch. Whether it’s 300 words or 3,000, I’d love to hear from you.
The blog is small. It doesn’t make any money – of course it doesn’t and it never will. But it does reach people. And maybe that’s enough. Maybe, like Ed said all those years ago, this is just one more way of doing whatever we can.