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The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast

S2, Ep4: The Role of Animal Welfare in Vegan Activism with Compassion In World Farming

The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast

Evanna Lynch

Chickpeeps, Lynch, Health & Fitness, Animals, Veganism, Vegan, Lovegood, Luna, Harrypotter, Plantbased, Evanna, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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For many vegans, animal welfare activism can feel problematic. Why advocate for better farming practices when you’d rather not endorse animal farming at all? Isn’t it betraying the animals to be demanding anything less than their total freedom? And can animal welfare organisations really be working towards a vegan world whilst they are working alongside the companies killing animals for profit? This week co-hosts, Tylor and Evy discuss the complicated role of animal welfare in vegan activism and speak to expert animal welfare campaigner and hardcore vegan activist, Sean Gifford, of Compassion in World Farming to gain some valuable insights on how to straddle both the vegan and welfare approach to helping animals. Also on this episode…

  • How a small gesture by a chipmunk inspired Sean’s vegan awakening.
  • Sean discusses his multiple arrests for the animal rights cause and why nowadays he tries to avoid brushes with the law.
  • How a vegan deals with having to use welfare language like ‘humane meat’.
  • Why must abolitionists be so rude online?!, Evy asks and Tylor explains.
  • ‘Anyone in the animal protection movement, I think we should all just focus on what we share which is that unyielding belief that animals can feel pain and lead emotional lives from a chick to a pig, to a cow to even fish, the forgotten factory farmed animal.’
  • Is veganism too idealistic to be achievable? 
  • Ending the Cage Age.
  • The government are making ‘sympathetic noises’ but you can also help CIWF stop live exports.
  • ChickPeeps book recommendations for Moms/Mums: Grilled, Free The Animals, Forks Over Knives, and The Joyful Vegan, Main Street Vegan, Mercy For Animals And Deliciously Ella.
  • Listener Stephen’s interview for No Meat Athlete!

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0:00.0

Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.

0:09.0

Eat your veggies, not your friends.

0:12.0

It's not hard to be vegan.

0:14.0

The chickpeak.

0:17.0

Hello, chickpeeps.

0:18.0

Welcome to episode 4.

0:20.0

I'm your host, Evie Lynch. And this week we're going to be speaking about the role of animal welfare activism in vegan activism. This is a topic I've long been planning and I've been looking forward to exploring because it's something that tends to split opinions within the vegan community. And of all topics, I see people kind of wasting time arguing about this thing.

0:39.7

So I thought it was really worth delving into it in further detail. For those that don't know,

0:44.1

animal welfare activism is advocating for things like stopping live transports of animals sent

0:49.2

to slaughter or trying to abolish cruel practices on farms like teeth and tail clipping of piglets.

0:55.4

It's campaigns that seek to minimize suffering of animals, but it's not necessarily to end slaughter.

1:01.7

And that's where a lot of vegans have a problem with it because, of course, we all want

1:05.6

a world where no animals are killed.

1:07.9

So a lot of vegans will say things like we don't want bigger cages, we want

1:12.5

empty cages, which is a sentiment that I, of course, agree with. But I also just see that not

1:18.2

everyone's going to go vegan overnight, no matter how much we tell them or ask them or or educate

1:23.2

them. And therefore, I see it that we need to be advocating for higher welfare standards in the meantime,

1:28.5

something that everyone can get behind. So I wanted to invite someone on the podcast who has

1:33.3

vegan sensibilities but can also explain the important role of welfare activism in the fight

1:38.2

for animal rights. And I found that in Sean Gifford, who is the current international head of

1:43.0

public campaigns at Compassion

1:44.5

World Farming, which is an animal welfare charity. A bit more about Sean and his background,

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