All of Sofia_Fogel's Comments + Replies

Here's the announcement about the new WAW program that Jeff mentioned was forthcoming in his comment reply!

https://twitter.com/jeffrsebo/status/1575095506832719872

Points for a novel EA Forum topic! I also have pretty horrific nightmares pretty frequently, and have also  lived a relatively good life/have nothing in my conscious lived experience that seems like it would be producing these. (Luckily I'm almost never enacting harm on people I love though—that's a level above, I'm really sorry that you repeatedly go through that.) Many of my nightmares essentially seem like they could be scenes from horror movies, but I don't watch horror movies (ever, at all) so this is pretty bizarre. I have actually considered tr... (read more)

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Drew Housman
2y
Ha, that's great, points for a novel earning to give strategy. Some of the stuff that happens to Dream Drew would not be out of place in  a Rob Zombie film or the Saw franchise, so I see where you're coming from.  When watching shows or movies now I usually look away from anything even a little gory out of fear that the images will find a way into my dreams.

Thanks, PabloAMC! That's a good point—I forgot to introduce the organization and our mission! I'll make an edit to attempt to make that clearer :)

Thanks Edward!

Yep I agree with you about the university EA groups being an awesome place to recruit from! I've shared the opportunity with the larger EA NYC group and am in the process of reaching out to all the EA clubs I can find at universities in the area. (But if you have specific groups/organizers in mind please let me know so I can make sure they're on my list!)

Always been a fan of your writing—so excited to finally see it here on the Forum!

This is a really great post ; I sincerely hope that "GITV moment" makes it into the EA lexicon. Really useful concept in a compact package with a super fun story behind it. Thanks for taking the time to write this up!

Additional animal welfare/plant-based food-related documentaries: Dominion, Unlocking the Cage, The Ghosts in Our Machine, Blackfish, The Cove, Food Inc., Vegucated, Cowspiracy, Seaspiracy (coming out soon), What the Health, Live and Let Live.

Of those, I've only seen Unlocking the Cage and Cowspiracy (which were fine) and Blackfish (which was very emotional).

From the trailer, Dominion looks like the most intense from a purely animal welfare perspective, especially if you're limiting to docs that include some content on factory farming.

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Sofia_Fogel
3y
Update: There is also now Meat Me Halfway
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Xing Shi Cai
3y
Seaspiracy is a great documentary. Truly shocking. I knew trillions marine animals are killed each year by fishing. But I did not realize the ocean may become empty in a few decades.
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Greg_Colbourn
3y
I thought Seaspiracy was great - I started watching it without realising what it was, and it started with the filmmaker wanting to make a documentary about the oceans, then getting concerned about plastic waste (e.g. straws and bottles), and then it just kept going as he went down the rabbit hole. Seemed like a very EA kind of progression :)