How the animal movement could do even more good

Abstract

The animal advocacy movement is doing a lot to help animals, and has enjoyed some level of success. Yet there is still substantial room for improvement to allow the movement to reach its full potential. To that end, we believe it is critical to be aware of biases that may distort our thinking, such as the tendency to keep doing what we have done so far simply because that’s what we are familiar with. In this post, we outline our suggestions for the animal movement and our vision of how it can develop to reduce animal suffering (even) more effectively. . This is, of course, a wide subject that entails many different strategic questions, and we don’t claim to have all the answers. Therefore, we will focus on aspects that we have considered in depth and that we have come to fairly confident conclusions about. Our perspective is inspired by our focus on s-risks and our antispeciesist, suffering-focused values. . This post draws heavily on Magnus Vinding’s new book Reasoned Politics. In particular, its chapter on Non-Human Beings and Politics goes into more detail on the issues discussed below.