# benjamin lay (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover benjamin lay. Page: Feed: --- ## ["Hello, how do you feel about humans exploiting other animals?"](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/hello-how-do-you-feel-about-humans) _2026-07-28 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ About a year ago, in June 2025, I had a long discussion with Anonymous for the Voiceless (AV) founder Paul Bashir, on David Ramms’ YouTube channel. ## [These Harvard Students Don't Want to Waste Their Careers at McKinsey](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/these-harvard-students-dont-want) _2026-07-22 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ Our recruitment posters said: 'You didn't fight your way into Harvard to end up in a BS-job'. What happened next? 8% of ALL juniors applied to our new fellowship. Meet the first twelve. ## [No, farmers don't know their animals best](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/no-farmers-dont-know-their-animals) _2026-07-10 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ They're too biased to understand what animals need ## [The incredible story of Benjamin Lay: abolitionist, vegan, and centuries ahead of his time](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/the-incredible-story-of-benjamin) _2026-07-05 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ Benjamin Lay was a hunchbacked prophet who fought the greatest injustice of his age: slavery. His extraordinary life raises a question: who are the Benjamin Lays of our own time? ## [A small, unforgiving club won't get us there](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/a-small-unforgiving-club-wont-get) _2026-06-18 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ On ex-vegans and bigger tents ## [The Most Demanding Idea in the World](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/the-most-demanding-idea-in-the-world) _2026-06-18 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ A speech I gave at our Fellowship Summit in March. This is what we are fighting for at The School for Moral Ambition. ## [The team is bigger than the label](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/the-team-is-bigger-than-the-label) _2026-06-09 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ Gaz Oakley is no longer vegan. That doesn't mean he's no longer an ally. ## [An Inconvenient Truth About AI](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/an-inconvenient-truth-about-ai) _2026-06-07 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left. And the consequences could be even more disastrous. ## [Benjamin Lay was a vegan, abolitionist dwarf in the 18th century](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/benjamin-lay-was-a-vegan-abolitionist) _2026-05-28 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ Benjamin Lay was a hunchbacked dwarf of four feet tall. He was also a vegan, feminist, and anti-slavery activist. ## [Three Self-Help Books I’d Actually Recommend](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/three-self-help-books-id-actually) _2026-05-27 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ Yes, it's an insufferable genre, but there are a few exceptions. ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dihDaINxww1T) _2026-05-27 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Would You Have Hidden Anne Frank?](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/would-you-have-hidden-anne-frank) _2026-05-20 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ A 1936 photograph, a Dutch farmer on a bicycle, and what the research actually says about who acts when it matters. ## [10 Signs of Fascism. America has all of them.](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/10-signs-of-fascism-america-has-all) _2026-05-17 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ Why historians are now using the f-word to describe what’s happening in America. ## [How I Finally Woke Up to the Sheer Evil of Big Tobacco](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/how-i-finally-woke-up-to-the-sheer) _2026-05-10 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ Reading the evidence on cigarettes felt a like reading the evidence on factory farming. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. ## [The largest family separation in history](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/the-largest-family-separation-in) _2026-05-09 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ On farms, billions of mothers and their young can never be together. ## [The Uncomfortable Thing I Realized While Writing My Last Book](https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/the-uncomfortable-thing-i-realized) _2026-05-06 · Rutger Bregman · Rutger Bregman_ Why I'm starting a Substack, and what I hope it will become ## [We waited too long to take animal sentience seriously - and shouldn't do the same with AI.](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/we-waited-too-long-to-take-animal) _2026-05-02 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ What if we’d bring into the world a number of sentient beings that dwarfs even the billions of factory farmed animals on our planet? ## [Why I've made peace with shiitake-infused beef burgers (for now)](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/why-ive-made-peace-with-shiitake) _2026-04-14 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ Insights from the Plant FWD conference 2026 ## [Prisoners of compassion](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/prisoners-of-compassion) _2026-04-03 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ The woman across from me and my girlfriend says she’s exhausted. ## [Realism or optimism: what helps animals more?](https://tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/realism-or-optimism-what-helps-animals) _2026-03-26 · Tobias Leenaert · The Vegan Strategist_ Last weekend I attended and spoke at the Vegan and Animal Rights Conference (VARC) in Manchester, alongside four hundred like-minded people.