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Who To Donate To? Effective Altruism And Animals

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Julia, Lottie, Trev and Nick discuss effective altruism – donating to organisations that do the greatest good. We cover animals being sidelined in some EA resources and we evaluate the evaluations of the most effective animal charities.  Links: Animal Charity Evaluators: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/recommended-charity-fund-update-july-2024/ Effective Altruism Australia: https://effectivealtruism.org.au/best-charities/ The Life You Can Save: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org.au/ Give Well – https://www.givewell.org/ Giving What We Can – https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does – Critical Essays on Effective Altruism: https://academic.oup.com/book/45591 Plant The Land: https://www.planttheland.org/ Food Empowerment Project: https://foodispower.org/ A previous Freedom of Species show ‘Zane McNeill on animal rights advocacy and addressing anti-carceral veganism’ covered relevant themes of corporate/foundation funding of non-profits: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/zane-mcneill-animal-rights-advocacy-and-addressing-anti-carceral-veganism Nick’s blog post summarising his PhD research on the financial aspects of social movements: https://faunalytics.org/little-effort-paradigm-asking-people-less-sustainably/  Music: Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Under the Garden by No Use For A Name: https://open.spotify.com/track/3H4YgNUdGSKFBCWnJYhwMP?si=8b0dc3b39c454b5a Invasion by Chumbawamba: https://open.spotify.com/track/4MkmrBfnm96reUnT0nJtnr?si=4e5f3f6909f44b80 How To Get Your Band On TV by Chumbawamba: https://open.spotify.com/track/28krH5U2ijrNVffWSuVIzY?si=9a7b9f0b5225485d 

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On this Summer Special, Lottie, Hayden and Nick discuss ways to use technologies more ethically.  We will have one more Summer Special next Sunday Jan 18. Normal Freedom of Species programming will resume on Jan 25.  Music: Spotify loves ICE by Dope Knife. Heavy …continue

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Meat Propaganda

Freedom of Species 21 December 2025

In today’s show, Betty and Trev discuss the impact of persistent meat propaganda on the general perception of veganism and plant-based nutrition. Meat propaganda refers to marketing and media efforts that promote consumption of animal products while downplaying their environmental …continue

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