ANIMAL PEOPLE FORUM | Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist | Activity https://animalpeopleforum.org/members/veganstrategist/activity/ Activity feed for Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:18:38 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 cb3d7ea47b4743bd3b65bedb9e8b2f33 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Why Humans Disappearing From the Planet Could Be a Very Bad Thing For Animals https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=32782 Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:38:58 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 c50003054d58e4721ba25ff77cf8ae48 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, How to Be a Non-Judgmental Vegan https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=32661 Sat, 27 Feb 2021 23:25:50 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 897cd6d30a98e5b70726d3d6a4b5377d Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, What It's Like to Be a Meat Eater: On “Confirmation Bias Cheering” https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=32456 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:42:33 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 1a6fe45072dfd61d2ec58d89664a1ce0 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, That’s Disgusting: Should Animal Activists Aim for the Stomach? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=32126 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:15:05 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 c2bb40e8f7aebb67cfdb09e261c37916 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, When Veganism Becomes Angry-ism https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=30673 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:38:42 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 658816a0ff97c6b75a3d3e509213f60a Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Would You Press a Button to Make Humanity Go Extinct? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=30420 Fri, 26 Jun 2020 02:35:49 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 d486dd46a3cc0a35fb3caebe0b85147e Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Into the Wild: Animal Dilemmas After Moving to the Countryside https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=30020 Tue, 12 May 2020 18:31:47 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 b96b389f8c41b7f90eb34615c74d320a Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, With the Rising Success of Vegan Businesses, Should the Role of Vegan Advocacy Change? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29087 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:43:34 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 8fffb2b8ff93186949138ff30597ce91 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Turning Adversaries into Allies: An Interview with Leah Garcés https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=27906 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:34:16 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 e64c12050f85982d41671e732c31c642 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Why the Animal Protection Movement Will Win https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26559 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 20:36:31 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 df452b57817420179e89bd73df1a73b1 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Finding Your Activist Sweet Spot https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26456 Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:05:25 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 b0c7cb6710ea186f6ef1638a7ffcb2e5 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Slaughterhouse Workers: The Meat Industry’s Other Victims https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26114 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:54:27 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 fdaf1286454fc502b000196525e6c9be Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, The Fetish of Being Vegan https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25774 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:31:07 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 355801bcff7bdbf027f49487f83ae145 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Unexpected Ways to Help Farmed Animals: An Interview with Joey Savoie of Charity Entrepreneurship https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25626 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:06:48 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 658088b5b392c56a7b966e0c92f8683a Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, The Meat Motivated Mind: An Interview with Dr. Jared Piazza https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25108 Fri, 17 May 2019 17:28:09 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 ed722cc4ffba811af90c4e23a192b9fc Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Getting Out of Our Vegan Crater: On the Inbreeding of Vegan Ideas https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24880 Tue, 07 May 2019 18:31:48 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 faa7c11c88d563db2fe5857b59593347 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, These Meat Companies are Giving up on Producing Meat https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24660 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:31:54 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 ef2e384603be5d276c94dc7400aa1b20 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, How to Veganize Other People https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24322 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:18:50 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 c4fdef783d1c4118594157ee7e7cdbe5 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Is Clean Meat the Animals’ Best Hope? An Interview With Paul Shapiro https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24050 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:42:47 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 3772dd5d55ff65b479ccec58118ac94b Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, There’s Nothing Wrong With Being a “Vegan Apologist” https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23880 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:55:34 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 747a5388d890fc3f94b66e4516d15c5e Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, What Animal Advocates Can Learn From 19th Century Slavery Abolitionists: An Interview With Dr. Wlodzimierz Gogloza https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23552 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:43:05 -0800 Most “ethical vegans” (people who avoid animal products for moral reasons) would agree that the goal of the animal rights movement is the abolition of the use of animals for human purposes. In that sense, they are […]

]]> 0 0dfbde6d4b475e0968558ea80d68069f Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, Animal Liberation, Human Liberation: One Struggle, One Fight? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=22975 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:04:34 -0800 Animal advocates are often prone to compare the struggle for animal rights with other social justice issues. We love to explain the parallels between sexism and speciecism, or compare animal farming with slavery. […]

]]> 0 6bcea92c87b6fd874ddfaf83fb8bde76 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist's profile was updated https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/12636/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:45:47 -0700 0 2a9d20d87343f9230fa46c2aec2186e5 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist changed their profile picture https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/12635/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:45:21 -0700 0 4ba7f0ac294b330fc4b94791d3056164 Tobias Leenaert / The Vegan Strategist wrote a new post, A vegan revolution in Israel: fact or fiction? http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=13866 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:03:04 -0700 You may have heard that in the last few years, Israel has gone through a “vegan revolution”, or that it is the most vegan country in the world. I recently was in Israel to give a CEVA vegan advocacy training in […]

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