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Your Vegan and Animal Rights Wiki
JFA.WIKI is a project of JusticeForAnimals.org.
We will soon have the controls in place to let anonymous and registered users create and edit articles, in a manner similiar to Wikipedia.
We provide a well-organized, evidence-based, non-hyperbolic body of knowledge useful to vegans, those considering veganism, and especially those engaged in vegan and animal rights advocacy or education. Whether you are actively engaging with others on the street, giving presentations, or discussing any aspect of veganism with inquisitive friends, family, or acquaintances, we can help.
We promote veganism not as an end unto itself but as the means to a world that is more fair and just, more compassionate and healthy, and less devastating to the earth that sustains us all.
Listings
- Beginner articles provide a good starting point for those new to veganism.
- Articles in the Replies Category provide reasoned responses to common objections, concerns, and questions regarding animal rights and veganism. For sharing, these articles include a plain-text version that can be copied to your clipboard.
- Fact Sheets provide support for a variety of topics commonly used in advocating for veganism and animal rights. Each fact sheet provides summarized citations of supporting evidence for that topic. For sharing, fact sheets include a plain-text version that can be copied to your clipboard.
- Blog Posts are mostly about the wiki site itself.
Information
The information on this site is usefully organized, evidence based, and non-hyperbolic.
Usefully organized
The site is organized into the kinds of information we use in advocacy—basic information, objections to veganism, facts to back up assertions, and summaries of various kinds. This way of organizing also engenders discovery and learning.
The further division of information in each section into the topics of animals, ethics, earth, health, and humanity provides a uniform structure to help you get to the information in which you are interested. Written definitions of these categories are forthcoming.
Evidence based
When we present a piece of information as fact, that information should be based on credible supporting evidence, not conjecture or unsubstantiated claims. We provide citations or links to credible sources for factual statements that are not general knowledge. We minimize using animal rights organizations for sources in cases where believability would be an issue to a non-vegan audience but not because the information is inaccurate.
Non-hyperbolic
Hyperbole and sensationalism are not welcome here. The case for veganism is strong, and the objections to veganism are weak. There is no need to oversell the health or environmental benefits of a plant-based diet—they are strong enough already.
In talking about the cruelties inflicted on animals, presenting the reality of what's happening may seem to be an exaggeration when it is not. It's especially important that when we make claims that may seem hyperbolic but in fact are not that we are able to back up those statements with supporting evidence.
