Encouragement to vegans and vegetarians

From Peter Singer's book 'Animal Liberation'.

"Of course, it is possible that you will encounter people who consider you a crank. This is much less likely now that it was a few years ago, because there are so many more vegetarians. But if it should happen, remember that you are in good company. All the best reformers - those who first opposed the slave trade, nationalistic wars, and the exploitation of children working a fourteen-hour day in the factories of the Industrial Revolution - were first derided as cranks by those who had an interest in the abuses they were opposing."