There Is No Single Strategy to End Factory Farming

I'm pretty sure there is no single, specific strategy that is going to end factory farming—rather, it's going to be a diverse cocktail of approaches that slowly gets us there.

(Including some approaches that we disagree with, probably.)

We will experience stagnation, setbacks, occasional major breakthroughs and tipping points, and a lot of incremental progress. We will get 10% of the way there, then 50%, then 90%.

Getting 100% of the way there will take a long time. But that has always been true of efforts to change global systems.

Rather than seeking single strategies that are silver bullets, we might instead seek to support ecologies of strategies that we think work well together. Rather than asking, "what's the most effective strategy?", maybe we can learn to ask: "what's missing?" Or, "is there something that I see that most other people are missing?"

Of course, if you're working on one specific slice of the problem, then you should probably have a level of obsession that makes it look like you think you've found a silver bullet. But deep down, we know—it's going to take a lot of us, working on things from very different angles. When pursuing our own individual missions, maybe we can remember how important the missions of others are as well.

Support each other—support experimentation—and seek win–win solutions as often as possible.