Incorporating Books Into Your Advocacy
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 influence people directly, but they also give authors an excuse to share their book's ideas with news outlets, podcasts, and other forms of media. When the EA philosopher Will MacAskill came out with his book What We Owe The Future, he and his team created a massive media campaign to promote the idea of "longtermism" and why we should care about future generations. This media campaign might've had more of an impact than the book itself.
New pro-animal books come out each year, and each one provides a new angle and a new opportunity to talk about the issue. For example, one of the biggest new publications this year is the philosophy professor Matthew Halteman's book titled Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan that frames veganism in a positive, joyful light (a rather different framing from many other books).
If you haven't thought about pro-animal books as an advocacy tool, maybe think about incorporating them somehow. For example, is there someone in your life you could gift a book to? Is there an op-ed you could write for your local newspaper (or an online media site) reviewing a pro-animal book? Lots of options.
