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🌍 New Feature on the Sarx Website: An Interview with Vesa Hautala from Christians for Impact 🌍 Ahead of the Christians for Impact 2024 conference, we had the pleasure of interviewing Vesa Hautala about CFI’s growing focus on animal advocacy. Christians for Impact empowers Christians to tackle global challenges, and they see farmed animal welfare as a pressing yet often overlooked area for impactful action. In the interview, Vesa shares: - How animal advocacy aligns with CFI’s mission, - Key challenges and theological insights guiding their work, - Practical steps Christians can take to make a difference, from dietary changes to impactful charity donations. Read the full interview and explore how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/eJ23ANmU Whether you’re attending the conference or are just passionate about animal welfare, discover ways to take meaningful action for God’s creation. 🌱🐾 #AnimalAdvocacy #ChristiansForImpact #FaithInAction #SustainableLiving #ChristianEthics

Animal Ask needs you for 5-10 minutes tops. 🐟 🦐 🐛 ❤️ 📊 We are currently conducting an internal evaluation of our impact. To that end, we have created an easy-to-complete survey for animal advocates to help us determine how useful (or not) our research reports have been to you and whether they have influenced your decision making. ✅ There is no limit to how many advocates per organisation can respond. If you do not belong to any organisation we encourage you to respond as well. The same applies if you are a donor or work in the funding space. ❓ By completing and submitting this survey, you will help us understand how Animal Ask can better serve the research needs of the global animal welfare movement. You will also have the opportunity to suggest which research project you would like us to conduct in the future. 🚨 The survey deadline is Friday, September 6th at the close of business in your region. Thanks for helping us in our mission to help the animal advocacy movement. https://lnkd.in/db699hDJ

EPISODE 8 - Dominion over the Animals Compassion for others is a principle close to the heart of religion, but how far - if at all - does it extend to other animals? In this episode, we speak to Barbara Gardner, a co-founder of the Animals Interfaith Alliance, 'a unique alliance of the world's most influential faith based, animal advocacy organisations. Author of The Compassionate Animal, Barbara Gardner joins us for a discussion about faith, morality, and animals. https://lnkd.in/eHNbeeMj

Last week I met some folks who had some understandable confusion over the law surrounding research experimentation on chimpanzees! It is, in fact, unfortunately still legal, in the US, to conduct biomedical research on chimpanzees. The only thing that changed in 2015 when NIH decided to retire its own chimpanzees from use in research and to discontinue support for research testing on chimps, is that chimpanzees have not been used in federally sponsored research since 2015. Private research companies can, and very much do, continue inhumane, inefficient, ineffective, and invasive testing on chimpanzees in private labs. What IS illegal, however, is to deny those chimps who HAVE been retired from federal research their sanctuary, as mandated by the CHIMP Act of 2000 which created and funded the federal chimpanzee sanctuary system. NIH continues to hold over two dozen chimps at a private facility rather than sending them to Chimp Haven where they, by law, belong - to live out the rest of their days in what can be as close to freedom as they'll ever have known. 🐵 💔

Ethical Seafood Research's report on the state of animal advocacy in Egypt is out. I had the pleasure of contributing to this report by ESR, which provides an overview of the current state of farmed, wild, and stray animal advocacy in Egypt. The report aims to contribute to a critical knowledge gap, and proposes recommendations for future efforts. You can read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eNssHsZb

🚨 The Animal Ask Impact Survey is coming to a close and we strongly encourage you to fill out the form. It will only take you 5-10 minutes to complete and submit! ⚠ Please note that there is no limit to the number of respondents per organisation. 🐔 🐟 This is our final call for participation in this important resource. As a research organisation dedicated to impact for animals, we think it is vital to assess whether our work is useful for decision makers and stakeholders within animal advocacy both in theory and in practice. To measure this, we would like you to have an opportunity to share how you have engaged with our existing research. 🏁 The deadline to complete and submit the survey is Friday, September 6 at the close of business in your region. https://lnkd.in/db699hDJ #AnimalAdvocacy #EffectiveAnimalAdvocacy #AnimalWelfare #animalrights #effectivealtruism

Building a Better World: My Journey in Animal Advocacy We explore how our unique network skills can change the world through the human-animal bond. Join us as we address imposter syndrome and share key insights from leaders like Caroline Griffin in animal advocacy. #AnimalAdvocacy #HumanAnimalBond #ImposterSyndrome #NetworkingSkills #ShowYourSoftSide #PetRescue #AnimalTraining #FoodForThought #ChangeTheWorld #InspiringChange

#HARAWeek: Join us TOMORROW, November 13, 2024 at 12pm ET/7pm EET for our Human-Animal Relationship Awareness Week Colloquium Series event, "Should Animal Advocacy Avoid Causing Guilt and Shame?" In this talk, Elisa Aaltola addresses guilt and shame from the viewpoint of an animal ethical discussion. One of the claims will be that it is precisely the avoidance of these emotions which has paved the way to a society eager to overlook nonhuman viewpoints. Register here: https://bit.ly/4dNmSeV #HumanAnimalStudies #AnimalAdvocacy #AnimalEthics

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