Archived Version: May, 2014
| Status | Exploratory |
| Primary Work Area | Industrial Agriculture |
| Website | Compassionate Action for Animals |
| Review Published | May, 2014 |
| Type | Archived Review |
| Current Version | May, 2014 |
Compassionate Action for Animals is an animal advocacy organization working primarily on behalf of farmed animals. They conduct educational and social activities in the Twin Cities area, including leafleting, humane education lectures, and a variety of social events featuring vegan meals. They also organize special events such as Veg Week, Twin Cities Veg Fest, and the Their Lives, Our Voices conference. They maintain a number of internet resources for vegetarians and animal advocates, including a world-wide guide to vegetarian friendly restaurants and detailed pages on their site explaining the steps they use to organize local activities.
Compassionate Action for Animals is an animal advocacy organization working primarily on behalf of farmed animals. They conduct educational and social activities in the Twin Cities area, including leafleting, humane education lectures, and a variety of social events featuring vegan meals. They also organize special events such as Veg Week, Twin Cities Veg Fest, and the Their Lives, Our Voices conference. They maintain a number of internet resources for vegetarians and animal advocates, including a world-wide guide to vegetarian friendly restaurants and detailed pages on their site explaining the steps they use to organize local activities.
Impact Evaluation:
Useful online presence
In our view, Compassionate Action for Animals makes some of their most useful contributions online. Their worldwide restaurant guide is a useful resource both for individuals and for groups looking to begin publicizing vegetarian and vegan food options in their own area. Their guides to activism can help encourage other activists and build a community knowledge base about how to act effectively on a procedural level.
Solid local outreach
Compassionate Action for Animals also conducts a variety of local outreach. They distribute leaflets, show videos, run Twin Cities Veg Fest, and give humane education lectures to spread awareness of factory farming conditions. ACE considers all these activities potentially highly effective, but we have concerns about Compassionate Action for Animals’ implementations. Their educational outreach seems to be conducted on a small scale relative to other organizations and to the size of their budget, perhaps because of their unusual emphasis on social activities. While we know that Compassionate Action for Animals is interested in outcomes measurement through their participation in our humane education study, we also see other organizations engaging in similar activities that take a more active approach to balancing their activities based on expected outcomes.