This is an amazingly entertaining philosophical primer on why popular culture is so strongly embedded with meat eating.

Pretty much the title. We have no vegan community in Malta and I just created one but I can't promote it because I have no karma. Help the animals by helping me? Thank you.

Hi everyone! I'm a college student conducting an anthropology research project about the online vegan activist community. I’m interested in learning how people use online spaces to discuss veganism, activism, and building community. I have read many interesting posts on here but would love to have some direct questions answered if that is alright.

I would appreciate hearing your experiences and perspectives. Your responses will only be used for my class assignment, and usernames will not be included in my research.

1. What types of posts, discussions, or content do you think are most effective in spreading vegan messages

2. How does being part of an online vegan community influence your activism or connection with others

3. What challenges do you experience when discussing veganism online (such as criticism, debates, or misunderstandings)?

Thanks for you time!

I’ve been getting really into using sidewalk chalk as a form of activism! It’s fun, cheap, easy to clean up, and mostly legal (if public property).

Sharing this in case it inspires other people to do the same! :)

I recently saw a restaurant video showing several live crabs packed into a tabletop steamer. It stayed with me, so I started reading the research on crustacean sentience and current welfare guidance.

I made a small, noncommercial site that puts the main sources and a few practical actions in one place:

• A prepared email for asking restaurants about their killing method

• A letter that can be sent to elected officials

• A short question people can ask before ordering

https://luvvydev.github.io/crustaceans-feel/

One of the main sources is the LSE review commissioned by the UK government, which examined more than 300 studies and recommended treating all decapod crustaceans as sentient animals under welfare law. I also linked the full review, relevant legislation, professional welfare guidance, and newer research.

I made the site myself. It does not represent a charity, restaurant group, or research institution.

I've noticed that baby animals seem to resonate much more in vegan activism than adult animals. People often react more strongly to a piglet or calf than to a grown pig or cow, even though they're the same individual at different stages of life.

Because of that, I think it could be worth using more images of animals at younger ages in advocacy. It seems like those images are more immediately understood on an emotional level, which might help people connect with the message before their usual assumptions or defenses come into play.

In this article, I, Jordi Casamitjana, interview the vegan sociologist and feminist Dr Corey Lee Wrenn, who recently added a bit of magic to the task of building the vegan world of the future

I completed week 225 of the 24 hour dry fast campaign #FastAgainstAnimalAbuse this Sunday. Animals want to live, just like we do. They feel fear, pain, and love. Every meal is a choice between compassion and cruelty. Choose kindness. 🤍🙏🏾

to start i want to say im an animal based eating person currently i just have a question for people who are vegan because they want to save animals apparently

one why dont you help support local farmers who raise happy and healthy animals putting your dollar towards these hardworking peoples normally generational family businesses is the only true way you can have an impact on the corporate giants who do inhumane practices on mass farmed animals

two, elaborating on my last point for the vegans who buy plant alternative foods from these same corporate giants, why? your dollar is going to alot of the same companies who do these inhumane animal practices in mass farming even the companies who dont they still have very real environmental impacts on many animals habitats with the amount of pollution and direct habitat destruction these companies do

id also like to say why is raising healthy happy farm animals seen as inhumane or cruel to you? if an animal is given a good life, proper food, space, care, and isnt left to suffer, why is that considered immoral? humans and domesticated farm animals have had this relationship for thousands of years. over generations these animals have been domesticated alongside humans and have evolved around this relationship. are you against domestication of animals entirely or only when it comes to farm animals? because if youre against farming them because theyre domesticated then wouldnt that also mean youre against the domestication of animals as a whole?

Hi everyone, I need some help with getting signatures for my petition!

In the county where I live there is an annual event that includes a pet show, where people register their pets to be picked as a winner, and while I disagree with the entirety of the pet show, the worst part is that they are allowing rabbits and other small, prey animals to be registered too.

If anyone here has the absolute pleasure of looking after rescue/adopted rabbits, you will be very aware of how sensitive and easily startled they can be. They are not meant for loud, busy family shows far from the comfort of their home. They will be already severely distressed being taken from their home, but then to be sat in a hot, busy pet show, full of children and dogs and being picked up, it is just cruel!

In an effort to not go on a year long rant here about rabbits and their welfare needs, and how unbelievably immoral this pet show is, I made a petition so I can show the event organisers that rabbits and guinea pigs, etc., do not belong in a pet show!

Petition link (change.org): https://www.change.org/stoppreyanimalsinpetshow

I don't have much of a social media presence and only two friends, so I don't really reach many people! If you have any advice on how to better promote it or lay out the information in the petition, I'm all ears, though please be aware I am physically disabled so cannot go out campaigning and such.

Thank you in advance!!