"No single food choice has a farther-reaching and more profoundly positive impact on our health, the environment, and all of life on Earth than choosing vegan." ABC (Alternative Baking Co.)
Also, it's delicious. (Don't believe what you hear about vegan freaks.)
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Donations to Organizations to Help Animals
My sister, who became a vegetarian in 1972 and vegan before I did, gave me $30 for my seventy-first birthday and told me to donate to any cause of my choice, so I looked online, and here's what I found on the website animal charity evaluators.org https://animalcharityevaluators.org/research/donation-impact/where-donations-go Of animals used and killed by humans in the United States, over 99.6% are farmed animals, about 0.2% are animals used in laboratories, 0.07% are used for clothing, and 0.03% are killed in companion animal shelters. However, about 66% of donations to animal charities in the United States go to companion animal shelters, 32% go to groups with mixed or other activities, and just 0.8% of donations go specifically to farmed animal organizations, while 0.7% go to laboratory animal organizations.
Spending on animal advocacy is highly inconsistent with these patterns. As of 2015, Charity Navigator listed 90 major US animal shelters with budgets over $3.5 million, together endowed with $1.2 billion. By contrast, 10 major US farmed animal outreach organizations together controlled just $19.9 million.
These numbers together suggest that typical donors and volunteers should concentrate their efforts on preventing the suffering of as many factory farmed animals as possible.
I want to make sure that the San Francisco Chronicle's Season of Sharing includes vegan organizations on its list.
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