It’s #WorldFarmAnimalsDay Rescue an animal for less than $1! Hens live in cages no bigger than iPads, unable to even spread their wings. There’s no excuse for this cruelty. Help free 100,000 hens from cruel cages. Donations get a 50% boost all week! www.farmkind.giving/cagefree?pro...

A hen spends her life in a cage no bigger than an iPad, unable to spread her wings. This #WorldFarmAnimalsDay, let's change that. For less than a dollar, you can help free a hen, and your donation gets a 50% boost all week long. With your help, we can free 100,000 hens.

This month we helped raise over $2M for farmed animals 🐔🐟🐖 I spoke to Vox’s @kennytorrella.bsky.social about the fundraiser + our (spicy) “moral offsetting” idea: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Over $2m raised to help end factory farming 🐔🐟🐖 Thanks to the massive support and generosity of Dwarkesh Patel and other amazing donors. We at FarmKind were really proud to play a small role in making this happen. youtu.be/r5H-bFGOjBM?...

Who really decides what's on your plate? 🍽️ New episode of Changed My Mind is out! My co-host and I talked to @markbittman.bsky.social about his journey from joyful recipe writer to outspoken critic of the US food system. We dig into how his focus shifted from individual choice to systemic issues.

Changing people's minds isn't about facts and logical arguments - it is so often about identity and stories. In the latest episode of Changed My Mind we chat to Dr Melanie Joy about the power of story telling and how one dodgy burger completely changed her life.

Your brain is literally "Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones." This negativity bias served our ancestors well, but today, not so much. In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Rick Hanson shares how to intentionally rewire your brain for greater flexibility, resilience, and happiness.

I know this is a stone-cold take: trying to out-Reform Reform on immigration seems not only wrong but stupid, you're just signalling that you think they're right about the issue but you'll never be prepared to go as far as them. Labour needs to be honest: immigration is quite good, actually

Working 60 hours a week making PowerPoints that no one reads? Rutger Bregman (@rutgerbregman.com) thinks we could use our fancy degrees to actually help people instead of making rich people richer. Crazy, right? Find out more on the latest episode of Changed My Mind

I love him I must marry him.

Finally fulfilling my contractual obligation as a 30-something white guy to start a podcast. "Changed My Mind" launched this week where we'll interview people who possess the rarest superpower of all: admitting they were wrong about something.

Turns out telling people "Go Vegan" is like telling someone "Just be happy" during a crisis. We need to stop threatening people's "good person" identity and make folks feel included instead of judged. Who knew psychology mattered more than my moral superiority? shorturl.at/9LGIB

Been loving @chrisbryantphd.bsky.social new YouTube channel—short, sharp, evidence-backed takes on how to actually help animals. Recently he gives a shout-out to FarmKind—showing how smart giving can match the impact of going vegan. 📺 Sub to Chris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvw...

The UK-US trade deal is a ticking time bomb for British farming. We might allow imports from a system where practices illegal in Britain for decades are industry standard. If it's too cruel to produce here, it's too cruel to import here. @animalpolicyint.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

For just $23 a month, you can OFFSET the impact of your diet on animals—without changing what you eat. That's because the animal charity space is so underfunded that small donations can have MASSIVE impact: youtu.be/2Q0aVBgHlC0?...

When I first found out about factory farming, my biggest struggle was simply feeling helpless to do anything about it. But the good news is we can all - surprisingly easily - help change this cruel and destructive system. My piece for GreenQueen: www.greenqueen.com.hk/diet-offsets...

Here's @thomnorman.bsky.social : youtu.be/4mRSskrZXvg And here's Dan : youtu.be/ATb5YU4JbxU

Great to see more atheist / skeptic / freethinking communities engaging seriously in the question of how we treat our fellow sentient beings. Kudos to previous Sentientism guests Objectively Dan (#134) and @thomnorman.bsky.social (#214): www.youtube.com/live/X_OMjKZ... @atheistcommunity.bsky.social

With the world's first cultivated meat dog treats now on the market in the UK, I can't wait to be able to give my cats slaughter-free food and treats! 😻

99% of farm animals in the USA are suffering on factory farms. Imagine living your entire, short, life crammed shoulder to shoulder with thousands of others, constantly dirty, constantly fighting disease, never seeing the sun. Now times that by 10 billion. We can do better.

𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴? What if you could just offset your meat eating - doing as much, or more, good for animals as changing your diet. Find out how, and why you should consider doing this, on Bentham's Bulldog recent Substack post:

What's the biggest thing you can do to help end factory farming? Psst: it isn't changing your diet! Find out how even a $25 dollar donation a month can do even more to tackle factory farming than going 100% vegan.

One of my least favourite parts of January are the 'smart' takes on why Veganuary is actually bad - this time from Josh Barrie instead advocating 'Regenuary' (very clever right?). Josh bingo cards so many boringly bad anti-vegan arguments, I thought I'd go through em Source:

I was expecting to hate this article by Michael Grunwald (@mikegrunwald.bsky.social) arguing FOR factory farming. But I was wrong. He's basically right: if we keep going on our current food trajectory, factory farming is the only way to feed the planet. Source: https://buff.ly/3PtZdXh

What if you could do Veganuary without changing your diet at all? 🤔 You can offset the impact of your diet on animals for just $23 a month. As I argue for Daily Cal, donating strategically can be even more impactful than changing your diet. Keep the burger, help end factory farming 🍔

Here's a novel way to think about doing something for the animals this holiday season.

Recently, I was on the NatureBacked podcast, talking about the need to tackle factory farming for the planet as well as animals. We talk about some of the great work already being done and how everyone can get involved and make an impact. Listen here:

𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘴 - David Pena-Guzman

I love that my BlueSky feed is full of cats 🐱 , so I wanted to give back with some cute animal content of my own. Enjoy! 🐷 For more like this, by the way, you can follow my organization, FarmKind, on Instagram.

I tend to think that if we could get people to 'really think about it' they'd start treating animals better: this paper suggests I'm wrong. In a series of experiments, people were more speciesist against animals in their decision-making when prompted to act less emotionally:

Amazing news: today, the Court of Appeal put the practice of growing #frankenchickens on notice - it said the 'economic interest of farmers' cannot be 'traded-off' against the wellbeing of this breed of animal. Here's the judgement: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/202...

𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 (𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘁) 😘 Instead of getting into food fights with your family this Christmas, why not just offset THIER Christmas dinner for them?

Big news. Each year, over 300M day-old male chicks are ground up alive bc they don't lay eggs and are useless to the egg industry. Innovate Animal Ag has helped accelerate tech to end this in Europe, and it just launched (on a small scale) in the US: www.innovateanimalag.org/blog/in-hist...