How I Learned to Love Shrimp

Wanyi Zeng on building the farmed animal movement in Southeast Asia

December 12, 2023 Amy Odene & James Ozden
How I Learned to Love Shrimp
Wanyi Zeng on building the farmed animal movement in Southeast Asia
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In this episode, we speak to Wanyi Zeng, Executive Director of Welfare Matters, an organisation that is focused on building capacity for the farmed animal advocacy movement in Southeast Asia.  We speak about the findings of Welfare Matters’ detailed and insightful report into the animal agriculture landscape in 6 key Southeast Asian countries, challenges facing the movement in Asia as well as Welfare Matters’ exciting plans to incubate new projects in the Asian farmed animal space.

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Episode preview
Intro
An animal related view that Wanyi changed her mind on recently
Wanyi's personal journey into animal advocacy
Why shift from EA Singapore to Welfare Matters
Specific local challenges
Some unexpected and important statistics on farmed animals in SE Asia
Welfare Matters report on SE Asia
Misconceptions about regional animal advocacy
Regional vs country specific level scope
Is the number of advocates a bottleneck to good work in SE Asia?
Welfare Matters fellowship
Fellowship final outcomes
Welfare Matters Incubation Program for new projects
Closing questions