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Bel Jacobs
@beljacobs.bsky.social
Former fashion editor turned speaker, writer and campaigner on climate justice and animal rights. Founder of The Empathy Project. Posting about positive work, nature connection and routes to multi species justice. https://www.theempathyproject.co.uk
This is a statement we need to hear more of in the near future.

⚖️ “I advocate for other peoples. Of course I don’t eat meat and dairy. Animal agriculture is the world's biggest killer of indigenous land defenders."

#indigenouslandrights #animalagriculture #meat #dairy #nature #wildlife
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🌿Join The Empathy Project and Town Anywhere to 'rehearse' a future of multi-species flourishing.

🌿 Using model-making and group work, we’ll create a place where both humans and more-than-humans thrive.

🌿October 25, 10am to 4pm at Kairos London.

Book here: www.kairos.london/event/town-a...
April 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🐅 Wild animals = 4% of the mammal kingdom

🐄 Farmed animals = 60%

🔥 Nature is in crisis. The biggest driver? Land use change for food production.

Find out more. Come to the next Biodiversity Collage.

📆 April 15, 2025 (Tue), 6-9pm
📍 Islington Climate Centre
📩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biodiversi...
April 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Part 1. "After fleeing Nazi Germany, Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer compared species bias to the ‘most extreme racist theories'. He argued that animal rights was the purest form of social justice advocacy, because animals are the most vulnerable of all the downtrodden."
November 28, 2024 at 10:49 AM
"If funding had been taken away from #animal
research and put into animal-free techniques decades ago, we would have more cures for more diseases than we currently have."

With thanks to @drcaroltreasure.bsky.social co-founder and CEO of XCellR8

#animalfreetesting
#crueltyfree #animalrights
November 27, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Listening to an episode of Outrage and Optimism in which Tom Rivett Carnac and Christiana Figueres talk about nature-based solutions while helping plant a hedgerow felt, well, good. As if I was where I needed to be. Bloody cold though.

#naturebasedsolutions
#regeneration
#ecology
#planting
November 24, 2024 at 9:55 AM