How I Learned to Love Shrimp

Cass Sunstein on why people self-silence about animal welfare


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Cass Sunstein has one of the most impressive track records out there. He’s the author of the social change books Nudge and How Change Happens, a Harvard Law professor and former US government official in the Obama administration. He has been writing about animal rights law since as early as 1999 and has written several seminal papers on the topic. He has a forthcoming book, with the working title Animals Matter, discussing how we can normalise and popularise caring about animals in mainstream society.

In this conversation, we speak about understanding the contradictory views held by the public on animal welfare, how our advocacy can help them overcome these contradicting views, how he was smeared by the media and even called “the most dangerous man in America” for his views on animal rights, and how we can get more people to speak only about pro-animal issues. 

For those interested in hearing more about his previous book, How Change Happens, and his views on social change, you can listen to this great episode of his with 80,000 Hours, which covers that topic in more depth.

Referenced resources:

  • Animals Matter – Substack Post by Cass Sunstein
  • 80,000 Hours podcast with Cass Sunstein on How Change Happens 
  • Justice for animals – Martha nussbaum 

With thanks to Tom Felbar (Ambedo Media) for amazing video and audio editing!

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