One death is a tragedy while a million is a statistic, the saying goes. While this quote has been attributed to Joseph Stalin, it’s likely he stole from other sources and adapted it to his own brand of sick and deliberate suffering inflicted on his own citizens. Under Stalin’s watch…

Coming into my 10th year of being vegan, I think of all the times I screwed up. I think of the lives that I took unwittingly and the suffering I caused out of ignorance. Running a rescue this whole decade in which I have been privileged to intervene in thousands…

The term Effective Altruism is used to describe welfarist reform in a way that misrepresents its impact. The assumption in this movement is that the most effective use of money in animal rights is through changing the laws in which animals are used in animal agriculture and fishing rather than…

While the past decade of my life has been working full time both onsite and remotely for the work here in Vietnam, I no longer see how I can go on like this and how the staff can keep working so hard for a futile mission in a region overrun…

Below is a list of some of the common, well-marketed, and media-friendly non-solutions to ending animal suffering in poor countries: — Puppy snuggling. — Doggie walking on beaches. — Instagramable kitten kissing. — Education programs by pretty, young white people to classes of non-white children to learn about aforementioned puppy…

Among workers in caretaking professions, the suicide rate in animal care workers is high and the turnover of employees is dangerously high. This is true for shelter workers from high income countries with the resources to care for animals, and in countries in which there is only extremely poor veterinary…

India, our beloved rescue chicken, passed away this weekend. India was seven and half years old, likely among the oldest chickens in the country. She had been with us since she was only a couple of weeks old when a volunteer bought her from the market while she was crammed…

As international animal welfare and animal rights groups headquartered in the West frequently look to Asia as a conglomeration of lands of savage animal cruelty due to targeted marketing against the dog meat trade, some very sick and unproductive side effects have come out of this process. This process of…

The dog and cat meat trade is responsible for the unnecessarily murders of 5 million dogs and 1 million cats every single year in Vietnam. At Vietnam Animal Aid and Rescue, we are appalled by this figure and have seen the horrors of this trade for more than 8 years…