EA - First book focusing on EA and Farmed Animals: The Farm Animal Movement: Effective Altruism, Venture Philanthropy, and the Fight to End Factory Farming in America by Jeff Thomas

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: First book focusing on EA and Farmed Animals: The Farm Animal Movement: Effective Altruism, Venture Philanthropy, and the Fight to End Factory Farming in America, published by Jeff Thomas on January 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Thank you so much to Lizka for encouraging me in this post.I'm so excited to share my book that will be of great interest to EA folks was just released by Lantern. The Farm Animal Movement: Effective Altruism, Venture Philanthropy, and the Fight to End Factory Farming in America tells the stories of this exhilarating moment in our movement in a way that I hope will inspire millennials to dedicate their careers and resources to EA and to helping end farm animal suffering. The chapters are:Introduction: Ending the World's Worst SufferingNumbers Don't Lie: Effective Altruism and Venture PhilanthropyPolitical Power: Family Farmers Versus Big MeatVegans Making Laws: From California to Capitol HillBuilding a Movement: Mercy for Animals and Emotional IntelligenceBetrayal of Trust: Inside the Humane Society's #MeToo Scandal"We are hurting so much": Racism and 'Color-blindness'Animal Law and Legal Education: Pathbreakers and MillennialsDreamers: The Good Food Institute and Clean MeatThe target audience is people who are EA- or animal-aligned (students, career-changers, donors, volunteers) but who haven't yet found their niche. Hopefully it will be helpful for EAs as a recruitment tool. It's the first book to focus exclusively on EA and farm animals, so I hope it makes a difference!I feel like the movement needed a book that would be useful for laypeople, advocates and scholars. The book has a popular, engaging writing style with academic methods and footnotes. I am thrilled at how the book turned out with the insight and help from the team at Lantern. All credit goes to them for the beautiful cover design.I am so proud to be a member of this movement and grateful to all who participated in this project (EA Forum commenters, you know who you are :) ). Thank you for the opportunity to post on this Forum.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org