I watched this with a non-EA (omnivore) friend, and we both found it compelling, informative, and not preachy. Nice job!! With respect to the advocacy ask you make at the end: we would benefit from further guidance on how exactly to do this, and what practical steps (aside from changing diets) people who care about these issues should take. For instance, I don’t have a great sense of how to talk about factory farming, because it’s hard to broach these issues without implicitly condemning someone’s behavior (which often feels both socially inappropriate and counterproductive). It would be easier to broach this, I think, if there were specific positive actions I could recommend, or at least some concrete guidance on what to say versus not say when this comes up. I have been a vegetarian for many years, so this kind of conversation has come up organically many times (often over meals), and my natural inclination is always to quickly explain why I don’t eat meat and then change the subject, so I don’t make whoever asked uncomfortable (since often they’re eating meat). But presumably there’s a better way to approach this, so I’m curious if you/others have thoughts, or if there’s research on this.
I watched this with a non-EA (omnivore) friend, and we both found it compelling, informative, and not preachy. Nice job!! With respect to the advocacy ask you make at the end: we would benefit from further guidance on how exactly to do this, and what practical steps (aside from changing diets) people who care about these issues should take. For instance, I don’t have a great sense of how to talk about factory farming, because it’s hard to broach these issues without implicitly condemning someone’s behavior (which often feels both socially inappropriate and counterproductive). It would be easier to broach this, I think, if there were specific positive actions I could recommend, or at least some concrete guidance on what to say versus not say when this comes up. I have been a vegetarian for many years, so this kind of conversation has come up organically many times (often over meals), and my natural inclination is always to quickly explain why I don’t eat meat and then change the subject, so I don’t make whoever asked uncomfortable (since often they’re eating meat). But presumably there’s a better way to approach this, so I’m curious if you/others have thoughts, or if there’s research on this.