Eleos and I cofounded the Animal Welfare Library🦉. Check it out here!
If you're reading this sentence, you're almost certainly in the richest 3% in the world. You probably hadn't realised this, or its implications.
Animals can suffer, just like you and I. Humanity tortures and kills around 80 billion animals per year. If you participate in buying animal products, I encourage you to stop.
Have you ever heard of effective altruism? If not, I would suggest you click here.
Want to have a fulfilling career?
A fantastic link to many links.
Do you know who Leo Brouwer is?
Maybe some crazy music will improve your life!
The world can be upside down sometimes...
Your very first introduction to music theory.
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Have you thought about how there is a well-known label for not eating animals but not one for eating them?
Don't want to be vegetarian or vegan? Okay. You should still make it a priority to be responsibly informed about where the food feeding us is coming from.
Should we care about insect suffering at all?
I think explicitly being aware of the concept of 'epistemic humility' can go a long way in combatting biased beliefs.
Check out interesting ways you could help end animal farming!
Remember those films where one's stomach turns when a central character dies in contrast to watching those battles with thousands killed and it feeling completely normal? In general, there is simply no way you experience the death of one million people, one million times as intensely as the death of one person.
You might want to consider ditching guilt in your life.
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A brief visual experiment.
Give what you can!
If you are reading this you are probably rather privileged compared to an important number of living beings in this world. Please consider taking a pledge to donate 10% of your income today to save lives and help end suffering.
If you are a student, you can pledge your future income. If 10% is too intimidating look into giving 1%!
If you are feeling brave, consider capping your income instead (e.g. the median salary in the UK in 2022 is £25,780).
Here is why Peter Singer thinks this shouldn't be optional.
