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Episode 5: Effective Altruism

Lettuce Talk 4 May 2023


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The Vegan Student Association (VSA) Utrecht podcast is about all things vegan. From vegan history to speciesism and more, we explore everything that it entails to be a "vegan" in our modern world.

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When thinking of how to do the most good for animals, going vegan is probably one of the first things that come to your mind. But there are even more things that you can do for the animals. Maybe you already wondered which career you should choose or which charity you could donate to in order to do the most good for the animals. Today we will answer and discuss these questions with our guest Felix, who quit his job as a journalist to follow his passion, mathematics, and ended up as a consultant, which allows him to donate more than 20.000€ per year for carefully selected charities.

See here soem further links to the websites we discussed during this episode:

Animal Charity Evaluators: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/

Giving What We Can: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

Doneer Effectief: https://doneereffectief.nl/

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