Lucas from Earth & Eats writes about the animal family at VAAR while on 22 Month trip around the world.After a pretty challenging experience in northern Vietnam, which I wrote about in Eating is the Easy Part, I was more than ready to head south, which I had heard was more vegan-friendly.
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Interview with Animal Law of Asia
Vietnam Animal Aid and Rescue - U.S. is an organization working to end the exploitation of all species of animals in Vietnam and globally. Vietnam Animal Aid and Rescue - U.S. was among the first organizations to join the Alliance for Animal Law of Asia, an international campaign initiated by the Institute of Animal Law of Asia
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Help set up our Mobile Veterinary Clinic
With poor access to veterinary care in most parts of Vietnam and with such low standards of care even in the big cities, a mobile veterinary clinic that is able to reach animals where they are is the only solution.
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Is rescuing animals the answer to ending animal suffering?
How can we do better as a rescue to address the big picture of animal suffering in Vietnam? To start, we need to understand the root cause of animals ending up in rescue to begin with. The only animals people seem to pay attention to are dogs, so we will use them as an example...
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YouTube Monkey Videos and Fake Rescuers: Here’s the reality that you may not want to hear
We really need to address something that has been flooding our inboxes for months now, often with abuse towards us and the Vietnamese in general. On YouTube there are some creator accounts in which monkeys are being kept as pets. We don’t watch them, frankly, because we are bombarded with them and no one should...
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The Activists’ Fire
Within any social justice movement, activists will be attacked. They will be attacked for being too outspoken, too violent, and too confrontational. They will be criticized for their use of language, having every single sentence picked apart. They will gain and lose followers for anything seen as too far out there. This is normal when...
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How can one calf save 300 million cows?
The vital work of farm sanctuaries The animals that receive the most attention, the most funding, and the greatest legal and social protections are those we spend the most time with. These are the dogs and cats who we wake up to, see in our neighborhood, and who end up all over our newsfeeds. But...
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How did “vegan” become such a dirty word in animal advocacy?
What does it mean to be vegan? Being vegan means we do not harm animals to the best of our abilities and with the information we have about the products we consume. That’s all. It’s really not any more than that. We do not harm animals and most importantly, we do not advocate for anyone...
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Where is all the funding going in the mission to end animal suffering?
Let’s lay some numbers out and you tell me how where you think attention and funding should be in terms of greatest impact for ending animal suffering. Out of 900 million dogs living on the planet at any given time , 3% of them per year are killed for dog meat globally. That’s 30 million...