Follows the testimony of the president of the NGO VEDDAS, George Guimarães, which explains the involvement of NGOs in protest. “I was questionado on the reason for Vedder be 'dodging’ their focus of animal rights: 'First was for forests, is now against the increase in bus fares', said, as if the first one does not also affect the non-human animals and the second was limited merely to disagree with an increase of 20 cents worth of passage.

Firstly, Who poses the question fails to understand that the animal rights movement is a movement for social justice, sharing all the similarities of struggle, paths and challenges that are peculiar to social movements. Consequently, who questions our active participation in other social movements is also far from understanding that, if a portion of the social movements dodges participate in the protests against the current Brazilian environmental setback and allow to understand and fight against the criminalization of the movement against the increase in bus fares, when it's time to put this plot into focus your topic, this will be dealt with strength gains allowed by default in the treatment of current issues, weakened by the absence of certain active participation.

The media and (other) repressive forces already do a good job to highlight the hype and just take the focus off of what motivates claims. It is up to us, environmental activists socioanimalista-, enaltecermos focus on the rights and recognize those who have left their comfort zone to be on the streets, whether they agree or not with the depredations, whether they participate or not this movement in your day-to-day. If the fight is for rights, she must have our support and participation, which is exactly what we would like them in relation to specific claims of our movement.

A movement that is silent before other injustices is not a movement. A movement that does not compassion with other struggles, is a movement that does not know what it is to fight. With regard particularly to VEDDAS (Ethical Vegetarianism, Defense of Animals and Society), it is no coincidence that the acronym was coined to include this last letter.” (George Guimaraes)