S2, Ep4: The Role of Animal Welfare in Vegan Activism with Compassion In World Farming

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Nov 28, 2019

The podcast discusses the role of animal welfare in vegan activism, including the challenges of demanding better farming practices while not endorsing animal farming. It also explores Sean Gifford's personal vegan journey, confrontational activism, infighting within the vegan community, the importance of unity, higher welfare in animal agriculture, and book recommendations for transitioning to veganism.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Personal Journey to Veganism

03:19 • 20min

The Fear and Reassurance of Confrontational Activism

23:45 • 2min

Animal Welfare and Vegan Activism

25:58 • 11min

The Role of Animal Welfare in Vegan Activism and the Importance of Unity

37:18 • 3min

Higher Welfare in Animal Agriculture

40:01 • 23min

Book Recommendations for Transitioning to Veganism

01:03:16 • 10min

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For many vegans, animal welfare activism can feel problematic. Why advocate for better farming practices when you’d rather not endorse animal farming at all? Isn’t it betraying the animals to be demanding anything less than their total freedom? And can animal welfare organisations really be working towards a vegan world whilst they are working alongside the companies killing animals for profit? This week co-hosts, Tylor and Evy discuss the complicated role of animal welfare in vegan activism and speak to expert animal welfare campaigner and hardcore vegan activist, Sean Gifford, of Compassion in World Farming to gain some valuable insights on how to straddle both the vegan and welfare approach to helping animals. Also on this episode…

How a small gesture by a chipmunk inspired Sean’s vegan awakening.
Sean discusses his multiple arrests for the animal rights cause and why nowadays he tries to avoid brushes with the law.
How a vegan deals with having to use welfare language like ‘humane meat’.
Why must abolitionists be so rude online?!, Evy asks and Tylor explains.
‘Anyone in the animal protection movement, I think we should all just focus on what we share which is that unyielding belief that animals can feel pain and lead emotional lives from a chick to a pig, to a cow to even fish, the forgotten factory farmed animal.’
Is veganism too idealistic to be achievable?
Ending the Cage Age.
The government are making ‘sympathetic noises’ but you can also help CIWF stop live exports.
ChickPeeps book recommendations for Moms/Mums: Grilled, Free The Animals, Forks Over Knives, and The Joyful Vegan, Main Street Vegan, Mercy For Animals And Deliciously Ella.
Listener Stephen’s interview for No Meat Athlete!

Links

Check out the work of Compassion in World Farming.
Follow CIWF on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
Sign the petition to End The Cage Age.

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