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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.

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.

Beyond Carnism and Toward Rational, Authentic Food Choices

Melanie Joy

Learn why Dr. Melanie Joy says that without awareness, we can’t make our food choices freely.

First European restaurant to serve cats?

MEOW! Or EW? Would you eat this kitten? The chefs at La Table Suisse are cooking up a storm with their new recipe—cat stew. And don’t stop watching: The video has a surprise ending!

Getting Relationships Right: How to Build Resilience and Thrive in Life, Love, and Work

Melanie Joy

This one-stop guide to building relational literacy, the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating, lays out the principles and tools for improving all kinds of relationships: with a romantic partner, friends, colleagues, animals, the environment, and even with oneself.

How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach

Tobias Leenaert

In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan movement.

How to Make Compassion Easier

Tobias Leenaert

Tobias Leenaert posits that we can help more people go vegan by lowering the bar and tailoring our approach to our audience.

Our Voices, Our Movement: How Vegans Can Move Beyond the “Welfare-Abolition Debate”

Melanie Joy

For years I have remained silent on the “welfare-abolition debate,” believing that my limited time and energy as an activist were best directed elsewhere. But recent events have compelled me to witness the profound anger…

Powerarchy: The Psychology of Oppression

Melanie Joy

Dr. Melanie Joy explains why we tend to think of some individuals or groups as more worthy of moral consideration—of being treated with integrity—than others and how we can use this understanding to help create a more compassionate and just world. Learn more at powerarchy.org.

Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation

Melanie Joy

In this thought-provoking book, Melanie Joy examines the metasystem, or overarching system, that informs all systems of oppression—such racism, sexism, and carnism—and the psychology that enables it.

Relational Literacy: One Solution to Many Problems

Melanie Joy

Psychologist and relationship expert Melanie Joy explains what relational literacy is—and why it has the power to improve all your relationships and transform the world.

Shaming Vegans Harms Animals

Melanie Joy

In this article Melanie Joy talks about what she sees as a major problem in our movement: the shaming of vegans by other vegans...