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“Announcing Suffering For Good” by Garrett Baker


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TL;DR: We are excited to announce the new animal welfare organization Suffering For Good, a new factory farming charity aimed at vegans, where we use our excess profits to buy suffering offsets--in particular, an enormous number of rats on heroin.

For decades, even centuries, us vegans have been trying but failing to get the world to stop eating & torturing sentient minds that can definitely feel pain & suffer. But the global number of such minds tortured & killed just keeps on increasing. We at Suffering for Good think its time we just gave up, and ask ourselves "how can we use this to our advantage?"

We realized something when we asked that question. After decades of fighting this fight, we know far more about the factory farming industry than virtually anyone inside that industry. In that period of learning, and attempted dismantling, we had learned basically all the [...]

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First published:

April 1st, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fZgWatNeTvK6FFdtW/announcing-suffering-for-good

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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