Animal Advocacy Guides
For people who want to get more involved in animal advocacy, it can be really useful to get connected with other people. Here are some quick, practical tips to help you have meaningful, useful conversations.
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When the going gets tough or the problem seems too big, remember: you are building the future. Together, we as animal advocates are building a better future for animals. We didn't start caring about this issue because it was easy, or because it would be solved quickly. We
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One thing we can do to increase our impact for animals is to improve our overall health and productive habits. When we become healthier, more capable people, we can utilize that high-impact energy for our work for animals as well. In my own life, I'm currently exploring the
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Many people crave perfection: the perfect decision to a tough question, or the perfect choice about what to spend time on, or the perfect solution to a problem. This craving for "perfect" has a few effects. First, it can push us to think more strategically, not being satisfied
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The suffering caused by factory farming doesn't just matter because of the animals who exist today; it also matters because countless future generations of animals will continue being born into this system for years and years until we stop it. Factory farming didn't really exist before
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Animal advocacy is not usually an "instant gratification" thing. Change is often hard and can take years. If you expect things to completely switch overnight, you will often be disappointed. This is one reason why it's important for us to train our ability to work on
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In his book Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman points out an important paradox that I hadn't considered before: by trying to get everything done, we can actually end up doing mostly small, easy, unimportant things while neglecting the larger, more challenging things that are truly important to us.
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Pro-animal books can be powerful vehicles for creating change. Many people have credited Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation with kickstarting the modern animal rights movement; and Singer was himself influenced by a different book titled Animals, Men and Morals: An Inquiry into the Maltreatment of Non-humans. Books can
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When faced with a problem or injustice—like animal farming—it's common to want to fix it perfectly and completely, or to want to know the perfectly right thing to do. If we can't find a perfect solution or action, it's easy to become
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When animal advocates get together, there are sometimes conversations that go like this: "Is anyone working on animal issues in X space? It would be really high impact if someone could work on animal issues there. Someone should do that." "X" could be anything: a specific
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Someone has to be the first person to reach out, to initiate contact, to send the invitation. Someone has to be the person to set up the weekly dinner with other veg folks, with other animal advocates. Someone has to be the person to bring it up in the friend
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I realized at some point a couple weeks ago that I had become rather addicted to consuming content: news, books, audiobooks, articles, videos, etc. etc. Not only was it entertaining and engaging, but it also frequently felt productive, especially when I was consuming nonfiction books or articles related to work,