I have a roommate (18M) who is incredibly passionate about veganism. He has been a vegan for 6 years along with his family. During lockdown, he and his sister established a vegan food business called Cloud Nine Foods all over India.

He's currently in a competition focusing on the cruelty experienced by farm animals. The winner will be decided by public votes and judges. I'm planning on surprising him by increasing his vote count. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Please take just 2 minutes to vote using the link provided below. Thank you!

Link to vote: https://www.farmsanctuary.org/pro-animal-awards#g578404

So we used to have this little rescue group near our area, Three Girls Animal Rescue. I had seen Facebook posts about them stealing people's animals. Animals that weren't being mistreated, healthy, vaccinated, well cared for ones. Turns out those were the best ones for them to steal TO SELL TO RESEARCH LABS! To top it off, they were helped by one or more police officers because they could take these animals to an out of state lab and sell them for upwards of four thousand, and these places were using them for hair, skin, organs, etc. I am disgusted and am going to be on the serious look out for operations like this from now on. It's devastating. A few missing pets of people I know were confirmed to have been taken from them, while others are unconfirmed but highly probable that they were taken by then going by what was in demand by a place located somewhere in Michigan where they had been known to take dogs. This breaks my heart and makes me beyond angry!

Oasis Animal Sanctuary in NJ is holding a beef and beer fundraiser. It seems that their philosophy is to save the animals, except the cows that they are going to eat, forget them....They are deleting comments and blocking the profiles of anyone that speaks their mind regarding the event. Below are their socials and info (I am blocked, or I'd give you direct links to the specific posts). https://www.facebook.com/OasisAnimalSanctuary https://www.instagram.com/oasisanimalsanctuary https://g.co/kgs/g3xoxTi

Hi, this is originally an answer to a comment in a thread about effective ways to donate, since it took me a long time to research and write this answer, I wanted to also post this seperately, in case more people are interested. You can find the original comment/thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeganActivism/comments/1fw2ipk/comment/lqcxkop/?context=3

First of all, looking for the average cost to care for animals, I’ve found numbers between 6,6€ (1) to care for a chicken for one month at a sanctuary up to 60€ (2) to care for a chicken for one month at local sanctuaries here in Austria.

If we roughly assume that on average it costs 20€ to care for one chicken, and that chicken live on average for 7 years, that’s roughly 1700€ to provide a home for one chicken at a sanctuary.

For cows I’ve found a number of 500€ per year at a local sanctuary here in Austria (3), with cows having a live expectancy of 20 years, thats 10000€ to provide a home for one cow at a sacntary.

These estimates might be way too low, as I’ve also found sources saying it costs on average 3000€ for a pet shelter to look after one animal for one year (4). A farmed animal sanctuary is of course not a pet shelter, but I would hope they provide at least as good care as pet shelters do, so the cost would likely be at least as high.

From my own estimation of the cost to turn one person Vegan which you can find fully sourced here (5), a ahighly effective public awareness campaign like Veganuary can turn one person Vegan for every 121€ donated.

Most Vegan calculators I’ve found assume going Vegan saves on average 1 animal per day, for example (6), now how many animals this spares in total of course depends on if the person would have gone Vegan anyways, and also on if the person stays Vegan permanently, lets take a conservative/pessimistic approach and assume people on average only stay Vegan for one year (7), meaning a donation of 121€ to Veganuary would save 365 animals, or roughly 3 animals per €.

This means donating to Veganuary would save 5100 times more animals than adopting a chicken at a sanctuary, and would save 20000 times more animals than adopting a cow at a sanctuary.

For another example I’ve found here (8) donating one dollar to corporate cage free campaigns will affect 9 to 120 years of chicken’s lives, donating to these campaigns, you could affect between 15300 and 204000 years of chicken’s lives for the same cost as housing one chicken at a sanctuary.

Some sanctuaries also do outreach such as allowing non-Vegans to visit them and posting about their animals on Social Media, which might influence more people to go Vegan. Even so, I’ve not found any survey that had sanctuaries anywhere near the top reasons why people go Vegan. If we go by this survey (9), 370 people in 2019 said they went Vegan because of Veganuary, and Veganuary spent 1,4 million punds of 1,7 million € (10) in 2019, while sanctuaries show up twice in the survey and might at most account for 104 Vegans in the survey. This means, to be as cost effective at getting people to go Vegan as Veganuary, all animal sanctuaries in the world combined would have had to spend less than 500000€ in 2019, which is obviously not the case.

Seeing how more than 90% of money donated towards animals goes to shelters (including pet shelters) (11), I think our movemnt needs to drastically redirect resources away from sanctuaries/shelters and towards highly effective organizations, where the same donations can have thousands or tens of thousands of times more impact.

This is not to say that if you have a partnership for an animal at a shelter, this has no value at all. If this partnership is what keeps you motivated to continue fighting for animals and what keeps you inspired to donate more for animals, by all means, please continue that partnership. But please donate the vast majority of the money you are able to donate to animals towards highly effective charities where it will have between thousands and tens of thousands of times more impact.

For some ideas where to donate, I’ve already mentioned Veganuary:
https://veganuary.com/
besides them I would recommend the Recommended Charity fund by Animal Charity Evaluators: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donate/
aswell as the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare

Finally, I want to acknowledge that I am using lots of estimated numbers in this comparison, and am comparing numbers from many different years, so these are of course no where near exact results, just rough estimates. I am not trying to say that you will save exactly 5100 times more Animals' lives by donating to Veganuary instead of a sanctuary for example, the difference might be one tenth of what I estimate here, or might be ten times higher than I estimate here, I don't think its possible to know for sure. But I do think if we look at the numbers it is safe to conclude that donating to highly effective charities will have a positive effect that is orders of magnitude greater than donating to a sanctuary. 

Sources:

(1) https://www.hof-sonnenweide.at/unsere-tiere/patenschaften/patenschaft-%C3%BCbernehmen/
(2) https://www.gut-rannerjosl.at/
(3) https://www.lebenslaenglich.at/patenschaften/
(4) https://mieuxdonner.org/why-help-one-animal-when-you-can-help-thousands-with-the-same-donation/
(5) https://www.reddit.com/r/VeganActivism/comments/zinaf9/some_estimationscalculations_on_how_many_people/
(6) https://www.omnicalculator.com/ecology/vegan-footprint
(7) https://animalcharityevaluators.org/research/reports/dietary-impacts/vegetarian-recidivism/
(8) https://rethinkpriorities.org/publications/corporate-campaigns-affect-9-to-120-years-of-chicken-life-per-dollar-spent
(9) https://vomad.life/survey/
(10) https://veganuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Accounts-to-29-02-2020.pdf
(11) https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-reviews/causes-we-consider/why-farmed-animals/

They should be doing the opposite to discourage animal torture.

I pay 80 cents extra for soy milk. But the cost of cow milk is similar to soy, oat, almond, coconut milk. Seems so backwards.

I’m considering getting a down jacket for the winter. Canada Goose, Moncler and The North Face seem to be pretty decent choices. But I wonder if the brands try to uphold animal welfare to a certain extent?

I do have a wool coat, but I try to do my part as best as I can. So any plucking of feathers while the animals are alive is definitely a no. Are there any other points I should pay attention to while choosing a down jacket?

Hi everyone, I’m putting together a list of good animal rights charities for my friend group to donate to. These can be any type of animal rights organization. Does anyone have suggestions for good charities?

https://youtu.be/M4ZRfyxDcwA?si=VkaPrqxchrMJVq3z

I as everybody else have loved to see the photos of the cute baby hippo who bites everyone. However, I've seen some very concerning signs about her living conditions.

First, there were the reports of people throwing things at her to get her attention, although it is unclear how many times this happened.

Then I saw this tik Tok of a girl who said she waited 18.5 hours to see her. In the video, the pen is surrounded by whooping people hollering, looking down and yelling at her and her mother and taking photos.

I have lived and worked with animals all my life and I can tell you that there is not a single animal that would respond well to being subjected to that much noise and attention. My suspicion is this lasts all day and is not a short amount of time that the animal is subjected to this. I don't care how used to this treatment she is, it's cruel to put her through that.

How would you feel if you got up every morning and people were yelling and taking photos into your house? There is not a creature on earth that would respond well to that. They need to remove her from contact with the public and just keep her on a livestream, she shouldn't be subjected to that all day, it's just wrong.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFUXo1dY/

Plant Based Mafia (561) 223-2432

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Grønn Framtid needs help! If you're interested in taking on this job, please apply to help with your resume, website, or linkedin, your email, and a little bit about you - thanks for your activism!

Help with Wordpress-plugin for campaign launch

Website: http://www.gronn-framtid.no

Compensation: This is a possible paid role!

Description: We need assistance in creating a button/form on our website that allows users to send pre-written messages directly to their university. This system would function similarly to the one used on these two website: https://web.archive.org/web/20240909195444/https://www.greenpeace.org/norway/vaer-med/stopp-gruvedrift-pa-havbunnen-send-e-post/ https://etiskbankguide.no/

Why? Grønn Framtid is going to publish a campaign where over 100 Norwegian scientists wrote together with us an open letter that urges Norways universities to include 50 % plant-based food in university canteens. Every canteen who will make steps into a more plant-based direction will have a tremendous effect on animals in factory farming given the amount of meals served at universities. It'd be much more effective if private people could reinforce it by sending the letter as well through such a system described above.

Interested in this request? Please click the link below to apply to help on Playground!

Click here: Link to request

Thanks for your activism for the animals!

VH: Playground by Vegan Hacktivists

Find other requests to help animals, click here!

Secondhand Stories Chicken Sanctuary needs help! If you're interested in taking on this job, please apply to help with your resume, website, or linkedin, your email, and a little bit about you - thanks for your activism!

TikTok Video Editor

Website: https://www.secondhandstories.ca/

Compensation: This is a volunteer role, please help the animals!

Description: Secondhand Stories is aiming to increase our audience and online presence by creating and posting to a TikTok account. You see, as millennial founders we aren't great at video editing, so we are looking for one talented individual to help us turn our recordings into internet magic.

The two main responsibilities will be:

• Generating an idea bank of video concepts for the founders to get footage of.
• Using the footage to create TikTok posts with trending audio.

We are looking for someone passionate about sharing the unique and individual personalities of chickens while supporting a microsanctuary.

Interested in this request? Please click the link below to apply to help on Playground!

Click here: Link to request

Thanks for your activism for the animals!

VH: Playground by Vegan Hacktivists

Find other requests to help animals, click here!

In Santorini, many tourists ride donkeys up the steep steps to the Caldera, but what many don’t realize is the suffering these animals endure

🚫 These donkeys are often overworked, forced to carry heavy loads in extreme heat, without adequate water, rest, or care. Some are even injured and still made to work. Their handlers have been known to whip and mistreat them to ensure they keep moving, regardless of their condition.

Instead, consider taking the cable lift- a much kinder and faster way to experience the views of Santorini without contributing to animal cruelty. 🌅

Let’s show compassion for these hardworking animals. 💙 Take a stand and choose ethical tourism!

From Peta https://investigations.peta.org/egypt-animals/?en_txn7=Home-Featured::egypt-investigation-homepage-sep-2024

Fuck Whole Foods. We need local grocery stores who are truly humane. I know of one smaller chain, but there are so few. We have to encourage new grocery options to stop WF from dominating the market.

https://investigations.peta.org/turkey-abuse-humane-farms/#action

At least some are being charged with animal cruelty.

Urge Whole Foods to stop duping consumers with false “humane meat” claims by emailing Bart Beilman below:

Bart Beilman Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Retail Operations Whole Foods Bart.Beilman@wholefoods.com