The Risk of Opening the Climate Movement Up to a THL

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

There's an interesting conversation recently about organizations and actually hiring whether you have to hire vegans in the movement. Do you think there's risk in opening the movement up to that? I'm less concerned about professional people working in the movement, my guess is like most of those people are probably going to be vegan. And if they don't, if they're hired when they're not vegan, they'll often become vegan very quickly. That seems less relevant to me than people who might consider themselves like an animal activist or part of the animal movement generally. The crux of the issue is for everyone to feel comfortable like, oh yeah, this person's part of the team. What is the

David Coman-Hidy is former President of The Humane League, one of the largest farm animal advocacy organisations in the world. He now works as a Partner at Sharpen Strategy working to coach animal advocacy organisations.

In this episode, we discuss the age-old debate facing animal advocates: Should we pursue incremental approaches to improve welfare or should we only advocate for the total abolition of animal exploitation. Additionally, David also shares some approaches he would like to see more of within the animal advocacy movement, as well as what we could learn from other social movements.

If you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review us - we would really appreciate it! Likewise, feel free to share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it. You can send us feedback and guest recommendations via Twitter or email us at hello@howilearnedtoloveshrimp.com. Enjoy!