u/CalpurniaSomaya

I've heard this several times online. I just don't know what they're referring to. Is it another way of saying killing?

I have a job that means I can't do any vegan activism (journalism). I have one or two years in savings and am 22. I am Canadian so don't have to worry about health care or dying from poverty. How do others stay financially afloat?

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I was shocked to recently learn the total budget for vegan advocacy organizations across the world seems to be only $60 million.

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Let's say 1% of the population of Western countries are ethical vegans. 1% of say 500 million is 5 million.

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Let's says half those vegans are financially strained and are not in financially comfortable place to give.

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2.5 million X $5 is $12.5 million. Times 12 months is 150 million a year. This would bring the budget of animal advocacy to four times what it currently is!

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So by each of us giving $5 a month we can triple the budgets of animals organizations and supercharge this movement.

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Imagine four times as many law suits against animal ag and four times as many Anonymous for the Voiceless displays. A Superbowl ad for Earthling Ed would be lit!

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My calculations are super rough but I think the point still stands.

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I personally feel awesome possum giving money to a sanctuary or organization. It's a similar feeling to going vegan for the first time.

I work as an entry level reporter for a large news organization in Canada. I've worked towards this goal for the past several years.

My cognitive dissonance first broke when I was about ten and I saw a video of chicks in garbage bags. I was vegetarian for most of the time since then but made every excuse to keep eating animal products. I've been fully vegan for about eight months (early 20s now.)

When people used to ask why I'm a journalist I used to say I thought it was the best way to make a positive difference...but I feel insincere now.

Every time I submit a journalism article I think later about how the issue is a paper cut compared to factory farming.

I love my job and it pays well and I do help people most days I'd say I'm as lucky as can be to have landed this.

But the last few months I've seriously thought about quitting and dedicating my life to ending animal agriculture.

I think it's magnitudes worse than the Holocaust and new world slavery. Im worried I'm on the wrong side of history for doing nothing if I have the means too.

I also really get the feeling were at an inflection point. Maybe it's recognition bias but I feel like I see signs of veganism and animals ethics all the time, from conversations of co-workers to pop culture. There was a post here a while ago about us being like British abolitionists in the late 1700s.

I also have extremely specific skills that might help that I've discovered from journalism, like semi viral tiktoks/réels, and twitter. I've had enormous succes posting on Reddit anonymously. I don't know how to quantify it but I definitely have a knack for social media. I've also been told I'm good at debate, presentations and public speaking.

I could also keep at this job and work my way up in the industry and eventuate do stories on animals. Kinda like a sleeper agent. But I think this would take years. If I continue to be a journalist I can't be a activist on the side because of neutrality.

I would like to do street interviews and social media content. Maybe I could apply for an organization. In Toronto we have a super busy square, Yonge and Dundas, which always has preachers with megaphones and displays like Christian and Muslim Falun gong people. I think just throwing a vegan in there would be so effective even if I do a mediocre job.

My biggest concern is honestly how I would financially support myself. My job pays about 27 an hour.

I have a bachelor's degree and 20,000 CAD (about 15,000 euros or USD) in the bank. My parents have a house so I'll never be homeless. Canada also has free healthcare and provides the basics for old people. I guess I could be a waitress part time while doing this and live frugally.

Any thoughts? Do others have this phase and does it blow over? Why did others choose to become full time activists?

We would make women's rights appealing to more men if it wasn't so all or nothing. Another idea: no molesting Mondays. Ten guys punching their wives 15% less would do more than one radical stopping entirely.