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Carolina Galvani on growing Sinergia Animal in The Global South and the optimism and self compassion that drives her work.

How I Learned to Love Shrimp

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The Importance of Witnessing Animals in Suffering

I was assigned to factory farming. I think a lot of the clients of the agency that I used to work at were animal protection organizations. So we were assigned to go to the country farms and slaughterhouses. It sounded like really, really strange because I grew up in the countryside in Brazil. That's all I saw before I started doing this work. And then they asked me, but will it be able to witness animals in suffering and being slaughtered? "It's impossible not to see it as a problem," she says.

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