October #1: Conservative values & sustainable vegan advocacy course
October #1: Conservative values & sustainable vegan advocacy course
Your farmed animal advocacy update
Welcome to our Hive Highlights October #1!
There has been a lot released in the past couple weeks. Out of everything, here are three resources that we believe are worth noting:
📚 Report: Bridging U.S. Conservative Values And Animal Protection is a Faunalytics original study that helps us understand how US conservative values can be used to help animals.
💻 Event: Hive will be hosting a Fireside Chat with Jayasimha Nuggehalli on 30 October. We'll chat about the challenges and successes of transitioning to cage-free systems in Asia, strategies for engaging corporations, the complexities of working with local farmers and ensuring economic sustainability, and much more!
🎁 Opportunity: Take the Sustainable Vegan Advocacy online course for free using code HIVE at checkout.
🗣️ Discussion: Animal Welfare vs Global Health Debate Week is here! Until 13 October, the EA Forum is discussing the statement “It would be better to spend an extra $100m on animal welfare than on global health.” Some posts already published on this topic:
If you have or create an EA Forum account, you can also vote on the statement! Go to the homepage and drag the slider to your level of agreement.
Warmly,
Sofia, Allison, and the Hive team
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🌍 Animals and Climate
Big Meat & Dairy tactics include greenwashing, delaying regulation with by proposing technical fixes, and blocking climate policies. (full report)
2024 Frankenchickens Report says 200+ companies have adopted the Better Chicken Commitment, of which 60+ have reported progress.
How recent Hurricane Helene impacted US factory farms.
Report on the feasibility of implementing stunning prior to slaughter in farmed seabream and seabass.
⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law
Bridging U.S. Conservative Values And Animal Protection was released (full study). Here are the 5 key takeaways:
Animal protection goals align with several values and issues that are important to U.S. conservatives.
The values that most correspond to pro-animal actions are: Health, Honesty, Reason, Economic Fairness, Freedom of Speech, and Family & Community.
Republican legislators may be most swayed by finding common ground on economic issues based on past actions.
Some conservative values, like economic freedom and constitutional rights, may take precedence over other values.
Republican legislators have demonstrated that they value animal welfare and may support animal welfare legislation.
California becomes 2nd US state to ban octopus farming.
Governments from US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand pushed for removal of concrete global targets to cut the quantity of antimicrobials used in agriculture.
EU court rules in favor of plant-based products using ‘meaty’ names in all EU member states.
Tyson Foods sued by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) for misleading consumers about the sustainability with “climate-smart” claim.
US 2024 Presidential election: Where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on factory farming (and climate change).
Legal Impact for Chickens lawsuit against Alexandre Farms builds on Farm Forwards’ reporting.
🥗 Plant-Based Food & Cultivated Protein
Mainstreaming Food Innovation: A Roadmap for Stakeholders is a World Economic Forum white paper that evaluated how to advance food innovation — which includes protein transition.
Protein splits (the ratios of animal vs plant-based proteins sold in supermarkets) and how the initiatives are they are progressing.
Report analyzed how alt protein adoption could reduce land use for food production, helping the US reach its climate goals.
💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates
100+ global organizations ask major private banks to stop financing global meat and dairy companies.
Cost-effectiveness of Shrimp Welfare Project’s Humane Slaughter Initiative.
FarmKind’s released a new build-your-own fundraiser tool.
Faunalytics now has a Spanish version of their website / Faunalytics ahora tiene una versión del website en español.
Fish Welfare Initiative is launching a multi-phase project aimed at introducing and scaling pre-slaughter stunning for farmed fishes in India.
How a community of activists shut down a slaughterhouse by focusing on zoning regulations and inclusivity, not animal rights — and non activists in Denver are pushing for a ban and ones in Milwaukee are trying to halt construction.
GFI Japan announced as the next affiliate location for Good Food Institute Asia-Pacific (GFI APAC).
Portuguese Vegetarian Association is now ProVeg Portugal.
🎲 Other
Update on the wild animal welfare funding landscape
Updates on the effective giving ecosystem & other related posts:
💼 Jobs:
Administrative Coordinator, GFI Europe. Apply by 15 October.
Ambitious Impact job posts close on 27 October:
Operations Manager
Charity Entrepreneurship Program Manager
Communications & Marketing Manager
Philanthropic Programs Director
Animal Equality:
Aquaculture Expert, Human Resource Manager, Program Associate or Manager. Fish Welfare Initiative. India. Various deadlines.
Communications Director, Greener by Default. US.
Communications Director, Animal Activist Legal Defense Project (AALDP) at the Sturm College of Law. Apply by 14 October.
Donor Engagement Officer, GFI Europe.
EAGxLATAM organizer, EAGxLATAM. Apply by 16 October.
Head Of Food Programme, Laudes Foundation. UK or The Netherlands.
Research Director, Faunalytics. Apply by 18 October. US or Canada.
Senior Manager, Public Relations, Plant Based Foods Association. Apply by 21 October.
Sinergia Animal
For more job listings, follow Hive Slack’s job bot in the #job-posting channel for new positions in a daily feed! Also, you can view the Animal Advocacy Careers, Tälist, Alt Protein Careers, and Probably Good job boards.
🔥 Opportunities
AI Loves Animals—Images 2025 contest invites participants to submit AI-generated static images or artwork to advocate for animals. Submit by 31 January.
Animal Advocacy Careers is looking for a Board Member & Treasurer. Apply by 18 October.
Asia for Animals Conference Taipei 2025 is accepting speaker abstract proposals. Submit by 10 December.
Request for proposal for research on implementing pre-slaughter stunning for farmed fishes in India due by 1 December.
Scarlet Spark has 4 upcoming free workshops for nonprofit leaders:
Show Me Your Hiring on 17 October
Show Me Your Job Postings on 31 October
Strategic Planning on 5 November
Goal-setting on 3 December
Thinking Competition, organized by Indian Network for Impact, is open to professionals in India. Top candidates may be invited to a 6-month part time fellowship. Register by 14 October.
User-Friendly has two new offerings:
Subsidized report, research, and document design to organizations working to support farmed animals
Free workshops: Presenting Skills workshop on 9 October and Writing to Persuade on 6 November
Animal Advocacy Careers is looking for a WordPress content uploader & reviewer
Volunteer opportunities:
The Humane League UK is looking for volunteer Grassroots Organisers for London.
Volunteer for us at Hive! We’re looking for individuals to help run Slack as a moderator or channel lead.
We’re excited to promote a free online course on sustainable vegan advocacy (use code HIVE)! 🧡
Hive has partnered with the Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy (CEVA) to make this resource more accessible to our community. This is a self-paced, online course consisting of short videos accompanied by interactive activities and resources.
The course will equip us with knowledge and tools to become mentally stronger and, in turn, help animals better. Even though this course is targeted at vegan advocates, we believe the content can be useful to animal advocates in general, whether you work in vegan advocacy, alternative protein, food systems change, or other sectors.
📚 Research:
Study finds that potato, lentil, chickpea and pea are the most accepted alternative protein sources, as customers already have positive expectations of them.
Summary on how Instagram posts about veganism may influence behavior.
Summary on the positive association between human-directed prejudice and human supremacy beliefs.
📕Books or other
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company, by Alice Driver
New email newsletter on how the meat and dairy industries shape our health, politics, culture, and environment: Processing Meat by Vox
Student’s guide on running university plant-based campaigns
🎁 Media
Podcasts
How I Learned to Love Shrimp: Rune-Christoffer Dragshahl on winning the largest government investment in plant-based foods
80,000 Hours: Interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation with Peter Godfrey-Smith
Animal Law Podcast: The Case of the Monster Dairy
Asia for Animals: Compassion in Balance Asia
Our Hen House: Tom Harris about the SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) campaign in his book Your Neighbour Kills Puppies: Inside the Animal Liberation Movement
Videos (use YouTube video summarizer to get key takeaways!)
Insect Welfare Research Society posted several webinar recordings
👋 Meet the new Hive Fellows
Last month, we invited three advocates to spend a few months working on various community and communications-related projects at Hive.
Meet the Hive Fellows: Maggie Casas, Nazlı Elvan Gökgöz, and Angel Lau 🧡
To learn more about their backgrounds, read our LinkedIn post.
📊 Event management and budgeting with AVA International
We enjoyed chatting with AVA International’s Executive Director Julia Reinelt about all things event planning and budgeting! If you missed it, here are a few takeaways:
💰 The 3 keys to managing global events: good financial planning, good decision-making, and reliable partners on the ground for logistics
📋 She uses very clear work division, and a clear plan of what goes on for each person in the day
⚡ In times of crisis: communicate, make fast decisions, and stick to the plan
💸 Always start with the biggest expense and add 10% on everything as a buffer
⚙️ Make sure there are some aspects in the event planning that you can tweak/scale down without losing significant impact
🎉 Upcoming Hive events
9 October: Hive Community Conversations
16 October: Hive Community Conversations
19 October: Animal Advocacy Book Club discussion on Animal Liberation Now
23 October: Hive Community Conversations
30 October: Welfare Footprint Project office hours
30 October: Driving Cage-Free Change in Asia: Fireside Chat with Jayasimha Nuggehalli
🤝 Upcoming external conferences
China Vegan Summit, 13–16 October. Suzhou, China.
EAGxIndia, 19–20 October. Bengaluru.
Reducetarian Summit, 25–27 October. Texas, USA.
EA Global Boston, 1–3 November. Boston.
EAGxVirtual, 15–17 November. Virtual.
EAGxAustraliasia, 15–17 November. Sydney.
AVA Summit Latin America, 5–8 December. São Paulo, Brazil.
EAGxSingapore, 14–15 December. Singapore.
View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA)’s event list and Animal Rights Calendar.
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