Common Allies

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Groups/movements we can all offer mutual support to in achieving our campaign goals.


Human Rights

Labor movement

There's good reason for labor movements to also promote veganism because lower income people are hit the hardest as they struggle to weather economic shocks.

Despite products from unjustified animal slaughter and forced breeding/confinement being easy products to notice in the shopping isle and want to avoid, we of course shouldn't downplay the hard lives of farm workers in our advocacy and be humble about how much research we've been able to put into everything we buy.

An example of good farm worker advocacy is to lobby and vote representatives to overturn California’s “50-mile” rule that negatively impacts the education of children of farm workers. Donate or participate in school supply drives for the children of farm workers, as well as food drives. 1

Donate or work with animal charities which help working donkeys and horses which in turn helps their owners. For example the Palestinian Animal League has veterinarians give first aid, do research and help come up with community action plans.

In many vegans desire to insensitive more farmland being reverted into wildlife habitat, we can also take up the fight against current old growth deforestation and tailor our advocacy to the unsustainable rate which will leave less jobs in the industry in the future. Direct action campaigns can in some circumstances also reach out to workers to negotiate ground rules for the protest or so they're at least not surprised and worried.


Anti-Racism / Apartheid

Educate about the unhealthy legacy of the slave diet. Promote modern healthy and ethical adaptations of food cultures.

Lobby for the renovation of village/town planning policies to end fresh food deserts. Support community shops & allotments that start up to increase accessibility. 2

Lobby your school board and state for healthy plant based meals. 3 At the moment cow’s milk is a part of all free and subsidized lunches despite the majority of children of color being lactose intolerant.

We should seek to research and support human rights boycotts that align with our ethics against sentient beings unjustified suffering. So advocating the boycott of Israeli goods, drawing attention to recently occupied settlements industries and water theft. Promote Palestinian goods and advocate against foreign gov subsidies and for sanctions to be put on Israel.


Anti-Sexism / Civil rights

Work to connect shelters for domestic violence, drug rehab or homelessness to centers who will foster a person's companion animals as a priority to limit the chances of that person refusing help.

Petition against the building of and for the closure of slaughterhouse's in your area, as traumatized workers face an increased likelihood of abusing their partners and children.

Advocate against the farm industry using bestiality (rape) for their own sake:

Each boar had his own little perversion the man had to do to get the boar turned on so he could collect the semen… He might have to hold the boar’s penis in exactly the right way that the boar liked, and he had to masturbate some of them in exactly the right way. There was one boar, he told me, who wanted to have his butt hole played with. “I have to stick my finger in his butt, he just really loves that,” he told me… he’s one of the best in the business. 4

Advocate against the rape and gendered exploitation of dairy cows who are forcibly inseminated on what farmers call “rape racks”. Both cows and hens are imprisoned so that their specifically female bodies can be robbed of their milk and eggs.

Help rescue dangerous dog breeds and fighting cocks into a calm environment, in part to demonstrate that it's our attitude towards animals that is hurting them and not essential to male animals nature or choice. 5

Advocate against the uncaring attitude that some men feel they need to display that contrasts them with how they see women e.g. beef burgers and steak are somehow manly.


Disability Rights

When meat eaters try to justify the killing of non-human animals they often reach for the idea that humans have some superior ability which entitles them to control the lives of those without that ability, how this intuition plays out in society has lead to disabled people working below minimum wage or the putting off tax payers money towards accessible public amenities like bus stops with the right pavement height for wheelchair users.

In the same vein if a vegan person is the one bringing up the argument of you wouldn't treat marginal human cases like you would animals, there should be time spent acknowledging both the unique capabilities of non-human animals and the unique perspectives of disabled people that would improve our understanding of society. So as not to come to the end of a discussion solely focused on connecting two negative intuitions about disabled and animal rights.


Indigenous land rights / Investment

Ally your organization with and follow indigenous land rights struggles and be available to support. For example in small acts of resistance like a group of indigenous Tahltan people blockading a road to try to reverse over-hunting on their territory. Or in larger cases like the moment the Belo Monte Dam construction was proposed in Brazil which is set to cause huge devastation to the rainforest and reduce fish stocks upon which Indigenous in the area, including Kayapó, Arara, Juruna, Araweté, Xikrin, Asurini and Parakanã, depend for their survival. 67

Advocate for treaty rights to reject fossil fuel national infrastructure projects and because they shouldn't be forced to bring further climate chaos on themselves.

Advocate for investment in seed diversity; seed banks and rare food markets. Stave off soil erosion as opposed to climate change causing animal farming.

Offer workshops and resources to indigenous communities who want to be be involved in the fight against for example industrialized fur farms which use toxic pollutants and disturbs the local ecology.