Wanyi Zeng on building the farmed animal movement in Southeast Asia
Dec 12, 2023
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Wanyi Zeng, Executive Director of Welfare Matters, discusses challenges and plans for farmed animal advocacy in Southeast Asia. Topics include funding strategies, surprising statistics on duck farming, tailored campaign strategies, disease outbreaks, and building a movement through the Southeast Asia Family Welfare Fellowship program.
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Establishing funding for incubation program in Southeast Asia for animal farm welfare interventions.
Challenges in prioritizing interventions due to diverse agricultural landscapes.
Importance of country-specific campaign strategies in animal advocacy within Asia.
Significance of fostering dedicated animal welfare advocates and the Southeast Asia Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship program.
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Focus on Incubation Programs for Animal Welfare Interventions
The podcast episode delves into the initiative of establishing funding for an incubation program aimed at animal farm and welfare interventions in the Southeast Asian region. The speakers discuss the challenges and plans involved in exceeding projects and nurturing an entrepreneurship model for animal welfare advocacy.
Southeast Asia's Significance in Farm Animal Advocacy
The episode highlights the regional importance of Southeast Asia in the context of animal farming, with Asia accounting for a significant percentage of land animals and farm fish globally. Insights from Wang Yizeng, the executive director of welfare matters, shed light on the detailed report examining the animal agriculture landscape in key Southeast Asian countries.
Challenges and Insights from Animal Advocacy Research
The podcast conversation with Wang Yizeng reveals various challenges faced in animal advocacy in Southeast Asia, such as lack of information on intensive farming practices and difficulty prioritizing interventions due to diverse agricultural landscapes. The discussion also touches on the surprising findings of the report, including the prevalence of duck farming and disparities in farm sizes among countries, influencing strategic approaches.
Exploring Funding and Advocacy Strategies in Southeast Asia
The episode provides insights into funding challenges and misconceptions in animal advocacy within Asia, emphasizing the need for country-specific campaign strategies due to varying industry consolidation and challenges like inadequate recognition of animal sentience. Efforts to address disease outbreaks in animal farming and the importance of nuanced regional approaches for effective advocacy are also discussed.
Encouraging Fellowship Participation for Animal Advocates
The podcast reflects on the diversity of advocates and the significance of fostering dedicated animal welfare advocates in Southeast Asia through initiatives like the fellowship program. It showcases the spectrum of individuals committed to animal welfare, regardless of their dietary choices, and underscores the value of sincerity and willingness to learn in driving positive change.
Addressing Advocacy Challenges and Nuances in Southeast Asia
The conversation covers the need for nuanced approaches to advocacy in Southeast Asia, debunking misconceptions about veganism prevalence and emphasizing the continuum of care for farm animals among individuals. It discusses the importance of sincerity over dietary choices and the varied perspectives within the animal advocacy landscape in the region.
SEAFWF Program Overview
The Southeast Asia Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship is a 14-week program aiming to develop potential advocates focusing on farm animal welfare in Southeast Asia. Participants need to be local, awareness of animal welfare issues, and open-minded. The program covers a diverse curriculum including interventions, research skills, and effective communication, culminating in a project proposal exercise.
Incubation Program and Future Plans
The fellowship aims to lead participants to job opportunities within organizations. They are experimenting with an incubation program for self-starters to initiate welfare projects. The program hopes to involve 10 projects with a startup fund of $20,000 per project. Challenges include language barriers and fitting into existing high-impact intervention models, with a focus on amplifying welfare interventions in the region.
In this episode, we speak to Wanyi Zeng, Executive Director of Welfare Matters, an organisation that is focused on building capacity for the farmed animal advocacy movement in Southeast Asia. We speak about the findings of Welfare Matters’ detailed and insightful report into the animal agriculture landscape in 6 key Southeast Asian countries, challenges facing the movement in Asia as well as Welfare Matters’ exciting plans to incubate new projects in the Asian farmed animal space.
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