Resource Center

Our resource center provides the most up-to-date materials to help vegan advocates improve their communication, strategic thinking, sustainability, and relational skills. We update this section regularly, so please check back to stay informed.

“Reduce” Or “Go Veg”? Effects On Meal Choice

Jo Anderson

A Faunalytics study found that advocating for meat reduction led to more meatless meal purchases than advocating for vegetarianism, because so many more people were willing to try reduction...

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80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours provides information on how to maximize the impact of our career choices. This website is tailored for talented young graduates.

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A Meaningful Life: Making a Real Difference in Today’s World

Matt Ball

Those who are successful in making the world a better place are students of human nature. They understand that each of us is born with a certain intrinsic nature, raised to follow specific beliefs, and taught to hold particular prejudices...

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A Well-Fed World

A Well-Fed World is an international hunger relief and food security organization advancing plant-based foods and farming to create a safe, nourished, and climate-friendly future.

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Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies

Pattrice Jones

Aftershock explores the culture of trauma that people have created by violently exploiting the Earth, other animals, and one another. It includes practical tips for individuals, organizations, and communities.

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Animal & Social Justice Fundamentals

Faunalytics

This resource in Faunalytics' Fundamentals series looks at the ways in which the pursuit of animal justice and social justice are intertwined.

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Animal Advocacy Careers

Animal Advocacy Careers is an organization that seeks to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement. Its website features a job board, online course, and careers advice.

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Animal Impact: Secrets Proven to Achieve Results and Move the World

Caryn Ginsberg

Why do some animal protection efforts succeed while others fail? This book reveals how more than 80 leading advocates create change for animals and presents a seven-step system including techniques that are successfully transforming advocacy.

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Animal Liberation

Peter Singer

In Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures—destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue.

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Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others

John C. Maxwell and Jim Dornan

In this book, John Maxwell, a renowned leadership expert, explains that if our lives connect with other people’s, we’re influencers. Whatever our vocation, we can increase our impact with these insightful ways to interact more positively with others.

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Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters

Melanie Joy

This award-winning book is an insightful and practical guide for vegans and those they are in relationship with: friends, family, colleagues, and even other vegans.

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Beyond Carnism

Beyond Carnism is the parent organization of the Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy. Its mission is to expose and transform carnism, the invisible belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals.

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