Profit Matters
Beyond Meat, probably the most iconic plant-based brand in the US, has never had a profitable quarter. Eat Just, maker of Just Egg and,...
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Owen Gunden
- Nov 1
- 2 min
Animal People
“There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting animal people, and we are acting accordingly.” -...
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Owen Gunden
- Jun 4
- 3 min
Scalability and Funding
Looking through lots of grant applications, I've been struck by the disconnect between what people want to do and the pool of funding...
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Owen Gunden
- May 13
- 6 min
In Defense of the Meat Tax
In February last year, Animal Ask published a study "Investigating whether a meat tax campaign could be a recommended intervention for...
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Owen Gunden
- Apr 22
- 3 min
On Counting Chickens
Within the animal freedom movement, I have noticed there exists a desire to quantify our efforts. Sometimes we may look at a particular...
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Owen Gunden
- Oct 16, 2022
- 2 min
What we'd like to see more of
For AVA 2022, we're handing out postcards that list some of the types of things we're excited to fund (see below). This post elaborates...
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Owen Gunden
- Aug 4, 2022
- 2 min
Positive expectancy advocacy
So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers. - Bible, Acts 16:5 My career has been in high-frequency and...
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Owen Gunden
- Jul 16, 2022
- 3 min
Yin liberationism
What can you accomplish? [...] Generally, you overestimate what you can accomplish when you have a passion for a good idea. And you...
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Owen Gunden
- Jun 26, 2022
- 3 min
Why not? Animal welfare edition
Why not focus on welfare reforms? The main arguments I can see for working on welfare as opposed to liberation work are: (1) it's good...
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Owen Gunden
- Jun 26, 2022
- 2 min
Why liberation?
I use the term liberation in order to contrast with other types of work done on behalf of animals, such as animal welfare or animal...
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Owen Gunden
- Jun 26, 2022
- 2 min
Why strength?
We don't have the power yet to make the types of changes that we wish to make. Imagine what kind of power we would need to have in order...
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Owen Gunden
- Jun 26, 2022
- 1 min
On terminology: liberationism
As activists, we often debate whether veganism is a good term or concept to be promoting. The critique says that by centering ourselves...
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Owen Gunden
- Jun 26, 2022
- 3 min
Why culture?
I'm going to argue that a focus on human culture is necessary and illuminating on our path to achieve liberation. It's also a good...
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