Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist

Many people who care about animals (be they farmed/domesticated or wild) or the environment seem to think that these animals or the planet would be better off without humans. I want to argue here why humans […]

Vegans often get told they are judgmental. Judging others is a very human thing, and for mere mortals, it is probably more or less impossible to be non-judgmental all of the time. So yes, just like anyone else, v […]

We believe that by being vegan, we’re doing a good thing. We’d like others to do the same good thing. But we can’t force others to do as we do. There is no way to make the consumption of animal products illega […]

In 1906, American journalist Upton Sinclair published his book The Jungle. With it, he wanted to raise awareness about the terrible working conditions and lives of immigrant workers in the meat industry in his co […]

Vegans, let’s talk about our anger. 

Most of us vegans are pretty angry and upset at what’s happening to animals, and we have good reasons to be. We have reason to be angry at the indifference that most peo […]

Warning: this post contains ideas that some people may find irritatingly optimistic, as well as some big, long-term ideas that some may find ludicrous. Please set your mind to “open” before reading furthe […]

In early 2019, my girlfriend Melanie and I exchanged our city of Ghent, Belgium for the countryside. Belgium is a very small and very densely populated country, so you’re never really far from civilization. W […]

One distinction we can make in all sorts of initiatives that are making a difference for farm animals is the distinction between non-profit initiatives (basically activism or advocacy) and for-profit ones […]

Leah Garcés is the Director of Mercy For Animals, and previously launched and headed Compassion in World Farming in the United States. Recently, Leah also published the book Grilled: Turning Adversaries Into A […]

Animal liberation is maybe the biggest and most challenging social justice issue that humans have ever taken on. The stakes are high, the steaks are on every table, and the task seems incredibly daunting. Yet I […]

Sometimes people ask me for ideas or advice about how exactly they could or should help animals. They are trying to find out what kind of activism fits them best.

Basically, I think we need to find some kind o […]

Kristina Mering is an MA student of sociology at Estonia’s Tallinn University, and has conducted interviews with slaughterhouse workers about their attitudes towards animals and their job. She did this at the […]

The longer I live in the vegan movement, the more I have the impression that most of us have a kind of vegan fetish, believing that eating one hundred percent vegan is more important than anything else, either in […]

Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) is a research and training program aimed at creating multiple high impact charities within a different focus area each year. They are part of Charity Science Foundation of Canada. In […]

Dr. Jared Piazza is a lecturer at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on moral decision making, including how people think about the moral value of animals. Jared and his […]

The Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania formed when an ancient volcano erupted a long time ago. The crater is 600 meters deep and covers an area of 260 square kilometers. It is home to a very dense population of Masai […]

I firmly believe that plant based foods will replace meat and dairy more and more, and that at some point in the future, people will hardly even believe there was a time when we ate animals.

Now and then, we […]

Many vegans are looking for the ideal way to make other people go vegan. Often, they are targeting good friends, family, or even their significant other. Not infrequently, they get quite frustrated when their […]

I have known Paul Shapiro since he ran Compassion Over Killing in Washington DC, together with his wonderful three legged dog, George. From that position, Paul went on to be a Humane Society of the United […]

You may have heard the term “apologist vegan” or “vegan apologist.” Maybe you’ve even been called one. But what is it, exactly?

I googled around a bit in search of descriptions or definitions, and the gist of i […]