Animal Rights Activism Guide: How to Be Effective
Vegan lifestyles undeniably keep a great many animals from harm. But the number of animals you can save by changing your diet pales in comparison to what is achievable through advocacy. You can save hundreds of times more animals through animal rights activism or vegan advocacy than you can save by merely being vegan.
12 WAYS TO PRACTICE VEGAN ACTIVISM AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Vegan activism is a proactive approach to communicating and acting the idea in which all non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives. Vegan activists merely present the truth in the many ways humans exploit animals and take away their freedom.
Speciesism Philosophy
Speciesism, in applied ethics and the philosophy of animal rights, the practice of treating members of one species as morally more important than members of other species; also, the belief that this practice is justified.
Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat): By Moby
Created by multi-platinum musician (and famous vegan) Moby, this book brings together ten of the world’s leading foodies, doctors, policymakers, business leaders, and activists. Together, they offer a smart and succinct collection of essays that will change the way you think about meat.
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Written by bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer, this book delves into the cultural, social and economic roots of meat-eating. Foer contrasts a thorough investigation into modern-day factory farming with tales of his childhood. In doing so, the author presents an anthropological take on the way that humans try to justify eating meat.
Becoming Vegan: Brenda Davis
First published in 2000, and updated with the Comprehensive Edition in 2014, it’s widely regarded as one of the best-researched books on plant-based nutrition.
Not only does Becoming Vegan detail all the ways a vegan lifestyle helps animals and our environment; it presents study after study supporting the countless health benefits of whole, plant-based foods.
The Garden of Vegan: Cleve West
There was a time when garden designer Cleve West thought making a garden was a frivolous pursuit for the privileged. Two things changed his mind: designing a garden for a hospital and adopting a vegan lifestyle. Cleve’s transition to veganism was a profound and varied learning experience.
Stockfree Farming
Stockfree Farming is a Scottish-based charity that supports and assists crofters and farmers throughout the UK to transition out of livestock farming into alternative forms of land management.
Unilever and Nestlé are burning Indonesia. Is ‘sustainable palm oil’ a con?
At the moment, fires burning across Indonesia since July have destroyed over burned 8,578 square kilometers (3,304 square miles and around the size of Puerto Rico) as of the end of September, blanketing the islands in thick toxic smoke which has turned the sky a violent red.
Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned this development, which is not yet incorporated into climate models, could put the temperature goals set by the Paris Agreement out of reach.