HeyJaredThe Vegan Strategist
I write about creating a more compassionate and sustainable food system, animal issues, challenges of being an activist, and other topics.
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The vegan trap (opens the original)
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As a vegan for almost thirty years, I’ve long had second thoughts about how effective veganism is for helping animals. I am not alone in this. Recently others have expressed doubts about veganism (see for instance here, here, <a href="https://sandcastlesblog.substack.com/p/vegans-are-monks-offsets?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5989391&post_id=184053116&utm_campaign=email-post-title&a
"Hello, how do you feel about humans exploiting other animals?" (opens the original)
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About a year ago, in June 2025, I had a long discussion with Anonymous for the Voiceless (AV) founder Paul Bashir, on David Ramms’ YouTube channel. In spite of our different views on animal advocacy, we kept it civil and in the end made each other a promise: Paul would read my book, I would participate in a cube.</
No, farmers don't know their animals best (opens the original)
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Ever had farmers or other animal industry people comment on your social media posts about animal welfare?Almost invariably, they’ll say you don’t understand the first thing about animals. They are - they claim - the experts on cows and pigs and chickens, and you are at best uninformed, at worst a liar.Before anything else, let me note that these days, the easiest, laziest but also most popular defense against inconvenient truths is saying that they are lies. Peopl
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