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Veterinarians: Allies For Advocacy - Faunalytics
Veterinarians have life-saving knowledge and skills to help animals in need. This blog looks at the challenges of their work, and how we can help them be better allies to animals, and to our movement.
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#Veterinarians are in a unique position to advocate for animals, but many experience compassion fatigue and burnout. #Animaladvocates can call for increased mental health support for veterinarians to ensure they are cared for as they treat animals in need.
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Top Animal Products that Cause the Most Suffering
Each day that all twenty four of these products are consumed in the U.S., it causes over five billion days of animal suffering.
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Our newest blog for @OneGreenPlanet is live! We dive into one of our Animal Product Impact Scales, discussing which products cause the most #farmedanimal suffering to feed the U.S. per category (i.e. chicken, beef, dairy, etc.). Click the link for more
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Faunalytics Explains: Offering Veg Food Options
In our second edition of Faunalytics Explains, we dive into a study on veg food options and consumption at university cafeterias. If you increase the veg opt...
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In our new Faunalytics Explains video, we discuss a recent study that shows simply making veg options more available at #dininghalls can increase #meatless meal consumption. Check out the video below, and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel!
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The Anthropology Of Meat Production - Faunalytics
Advocates can add more depth to their campaigns by understanding the why's and how's of industrial meat production.
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This study reviews the anthropological research around industrial #meatproduction over the last 30 years. It explores what #industrialization did to farmers and workers, how #meat became a political issue, and alternative ways of viewing meat production.
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Grub's up: why maggot meals are a hit on one UK chicken farm
Birds greet their food with ‘scratch dances’ and productivity is up. Could insects be an alternative to deforestation-linked soy?
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Animal advocates should be aware of a growing effort to feed live #insects to farmed #chickens. This article suggests that such a diet may improve chicken welfare, but it remains unclear how many insects are affected (or the conditions of their care).
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Creating A Model For International Comparisons Of Animal Welfare - Faunalytics
Scientists developed a novel tool to enable cross-country comparisons of farmed animal welfare. Their first application involves pig welfare in five European countries.
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#AnimalAdvocates need a clear understanding of #animalwelfare standards in order to hold the relevant parties accountable for their actions. This study of #pig welfare in 5 EU countries found that production standards were highest in the UK and Sweden.
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Encompass Essays Series to Be Published by Lantern Books
The 12-part series investigates racism in the farmed animal protection movement and examines ways in which movement leaders can cultivate racial equity within their organizations and personally within themselves.
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Our Exec. Director recently wrote an #EncompassEssay to promote #racialequity in farmed animal advocacy. We’re delighted to share that her work will be featured alongside other Encompass Essays in a published collection by @lanternpm next year!
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Belching Cows and Endless Feedlots: Fixing Cattle’s Climate Issues
The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world.
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#LCA studies of #beef and #dairy repeatedly show cow-rearing is a major cause of #GHGs. Advocates should be aware of this #NYT article, which cites a USDA scientist who claims the U.S. cattle industry is “probably not adding #methane to the atmosphere.”
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Meat Avoidance And Poor Mental Health - Faunalytics
Researchers conducting a literature review found that many high-quality studies point to a negative association between meat abstinence and mental health. What should advocates make of it?
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This study found that #meat avoidance was linked to higher rates of #depression, #anxiety, and self-harm. The study couldn’t prove that avoiding meat causes these concerns, but it’s an important reminder for #vegans to care for our #mentalhealth needs.
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Understanding How Humans Perceive Different Animals - Faunalytics
Animals who are perceived as cute, less edible, less familiar, and more capable of feeling tend to be treated with greater moral concern.
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As #animaladvocates are aware, our attitudes toward different animals influences how we treat them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, animals in this study who were rated as cute and more capable of feeling were considered less acceptable to kill for food.
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10,000 mink are dead in Covid-19 outbreaks at US fur farms after virus believed spread by humans
Thousands of mink have died at fur farms in Utah and Wisconsin after a series of coronavirus outbreaks.
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After a recent #COVID19 outbreak among U.S. #furfarm workers, thousands of #mink have also died from the virus. It’s important for advocates to remind the public that the treatment and conditions of #farmedanimals can make it easy for viruses to spread.
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A Life-Saving Coat Of Paint: Birds, Wind Turbines, And Visual Cues - Faunalytics
Simply painting a blade black on a wind turbine rotor effectively alerts some bird species of the turbine's presence, helping birds avoid collisions.
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#WindTurbines are usually painted white, making it hard for #birds to detect nearby blades. In this study, painting one blade black reduced bird fatalities by 71.9% on average, suggesting that a coat of paint can be an effective way to protect birds!
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Songbirds & Honeybees: Reprioritizing Welfare Based On The Experience Of Time - Faunalytics
Does a honeybee live through more “moments” per second than a human? And if different species do experience time at different rates, what welfare implications follow?
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Evidence suggests that some animals experience #time differently than us: For example, what feels like a second to us may feel longer to a #honeybee. This article explores the possible #animalwelfare implications of the subjective experience of time.
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‘Relentlessly bad’ biodiversity loss revealed in damning UK government report
‘It would be great to believe things are getting better, but they aren’t,’ wildlife expert says
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According to a new report, 55% of farmland #birds in the U.K. have declined since 1970. Just .02% of the national GDP goes toward funding #biodiversity, and the report highlights the need for more investment to promote habitat and species recovery.
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Study Confirms 'Slow Blinks' Really Do Work to Communicate With Your Cat
Cats have a reputation for standoffishness, especially compared with dogs, but if you find your feline friend a little hard to bond with, maybe you're just not speaking their language. Never fear - new research has shown that it's not so difficult. Y
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Fellow “slow blinkers,” this one’s for you: A new study has found that doing the #slowblink helps people bond with their companion #cats and makes them more approachable to cats they’re meeting for the first time!
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Study: Animal Sanctuary Tours Help Visitors Ditch Animal Products
A 1,200-participant study found that visiting a farmed animal sanctuary helped people reduce their consumption of animals, understand the connection between eating animals and their suffering in animal agriculture, and discuss veganism with friends...
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Have you had a chance to read our #FarmSanctuary study? It was recently covered by @VegNews! Check out the article linked below, and remember to read the full study here: faunalytics.org/farm-sanctuary/
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More Alike Than Different - Faunalytics
People who devalue animals are more likely to discriminate against human outgroups such as immigrants and minorities.
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In this study, researchers found that individuals who demonstrate #speciesism tend to dehumanize other people. In turn, they’re also more likely to show #prejudice against human outgroups (i.e. immigrants and minority communities).
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The Food System Is Built on White Supremacy
The story of the American food system has been whitewashed; the labor of people of color and the systemic, deeply painful injustices they face have been erased from it. Yet the food system is utterly dependent on the work they do.
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2.4 million #farmworkers, who are mainly Latinx, Black, and immigrant, help produce the U.S. supply of fruits & veg. This @Sentient_Media article lists some of the horrifying conditions they face and highlights the need for a more just, humane #foodsystem.
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Using Tiny, Bioengineered Organ Models to Improve Clinical Trials
The NIH awarded 10 grants administered through a new program led by NCATS called Clinical Trials on a Chip.
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Some interesting news for #researchanimal advocates: The #NIH has awarded grants to a number of researchers developing tissue and organ “chips,” which will be used to improve the effectiveness of clinical drug trials.
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Bee Populations Are Increasing in Many States–With Maine Seeing 70% Rise in 2 Years
Many US states are beginning to see very large increases in bee populations and colony numbers, like in Maine which grew bee numbers by 72%.
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According to this article, #bee populations across the U.S. are growing, and in the first half of 2020, the U.S. as a whole added approximately 420,000 more #beecolonies than were lost! 🐝
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