Humane League Labs published a large scale survey of vegans, vegetarians, and meat reducers in early 2014, focusing on finding out how and why people adopt diets that reduce their consumption of animal products. Their survey included 57 questions, which they asked of over 3,000 respondents. … Read more
How Many Animals Does a Vegetarian Save in the UK?
ACE uses Harish Sethu’s calculations to understand how many animals a typical American consumes. However, we have an international audience and evaluate charities working in many countries, so it’s also useful for us to understand how much animal consumption varies between countries. … Read more
Social Movements Case Study: Fat Activism
ACE has been working for several months on a project that will supplement our other research by compiling information from other social movements that is relevant to animal advocates. In the first phase of this social movements project, we’ll gradually release case studies of several social movements. … Read more
2015 ACE Donor Survey Results
To learn more about our supporters, ACE sent a survey in March 2015 to people who had donated to ACE during 2014. We didn’t survey people who had used ACE’s top charity recommendations but hadn’t donated directly to ACE. These people also support ACE’s work in a meaningful sense; … Read more
Things That Surprised Us About the December 2014 Review Process
We’ve written elsewhere about our general and December 2014 review processes, with the goal of helping readers understand what we did to arrive at our recommendations. Here, I’d like to discuss in greater detail some of the surprises we encountered during our December 2014 organization review process. … Read more