Voiceless Grants Program inspires the next generation of changemakers for animals
In 2023, Voiceless is working to create a just and equitable world where animals can flourish by supporting and investing in changemakers, visionary organisations and initiatives that reform our social, cultural and political systems. Below are the next generation of changemakers for animals who successfully applied to the Voiceless Grants Program and that we will be partnering with in 2023.
Animalex Israel/Gaza Emergency Grants Kangaroos Alive Creating a Vegan World Nup to the Cup Humane Africa Trust Kangaroos Alive Alternative Proteins Collective Fashion Justice Vegan Friendly Haytap
A collaboration to connect the global animal law community
Voiceless is excited to announce its support of Animalex, the world’s first global animal law educational resource library and network hub. Law reform is essential for meaningful change because laws often permit and even perpetuate animal suffering. Today, animal lawyers are playing an increasingly important role in advocating for and advancing animal rights.
The Animalex initiative is a collaboration between the Centre for Professional Legal Education at Bond University and the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School and will launch in 2024. The Animalex website will make animal law educational resources freely accessible to everyone and connect animal law teachers, researchers, advocates, attorneys, and students across the world. We encourage our Voiceless supporters to sign up to Animalex’s mailing list to be notified when the exciting hub officially launches!
Israel/Gaza Emergency Grants
Voiceless has provided emergency grants to help rescue animals from areas around the Israel/Gaza border. Thousands of animals are orphaned and need permanent adoption. And many more, traumatised or displaced, need temporary homes. These include companion and farmed animals. Our grants will help address urgent needs, food and shelter and more.
Grantees include SPCA Ramat Gan, Freedom 4 Animals and Sulala Animal Rescue.
New national poll shows Australians support kangaroo protection
Voiceless grant recipient, Kangaroos Alive commissioned the independent, Australian-based research company, Pureprofile to conduct a national poll among 2000 Australians. The results were released on World Kangaroo Day and show that Australians do not support the commercial slaughter of their national icon, and want other countries to stop driving this wildlife trade.
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98% of Australians think it’s important to protect kangaroos as part of a strategy to safeguard Australian ecosystems. |  |
64% think Australians should take a stance against commercial killing of kangaroos. |
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Two thirds of Australians agree that commercial killing of kangaroos causes unnecessary animal cruelty and suffering. |
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64% of Australians think commercial companies should stop trading in kangaroo body parts. |
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Nine out of 10 Australians said kangaroos should remain part of the Australian landscape and think we should share the land with kangaroos. |
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“This survey shows that most Aussies want the kangaroo killing to stop. Australia has taken a stance against killing of wild elephants for the sales of ivory and hunting of wild whales for the sales of meat and other body parts and we now turn our attention to our own backyard” – Mick McIntyre, Director of Kangaroos Alive |
Creating a Vegan World
Voiceless is delighted to support a new documentary, Creating a Vegan World. The film spotlights the most effective strategies and ideas from animal advocates across the world. It will strengthen the animal protection movement by inspiring current vegans to become animal advocates and share proven strategies about how advocates can be as impactful as possible. Years in the making, film-makers Andrew Alexander and Sarah Martin have interviewed hundreds of global leaders in the vegan, plant-based health, and environmentalist movements and have identified the fastest ways to end the exploitation of animals and transition the world to sustainable plant-based agriculture.
The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses
Voiceless is delighted to support The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses and their 2023 Nup to the Cup campaign. Nup to the Cup is about having fun on Melbourne Cup Day but without the cruelty. We want you to join us in celebrating animals – not exploiting them. The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) has a vision of Nup to the Cup becoming the norm. But they can’t do it alone. There are so many ways to get involved and CPR is there to help. Visit nuptothecup.org for ‘how to’ tips, support kits and to register. In whatever capacity you can get involved, our collective voice will become louder than ever before and spread the message that celebrating animal abuse is not okay. From humble beginnings in 2010, the Nup to the Cup movement has slowly but surely been gaining momentum. Help CPR make Nup to the Cup 2023 huge so that the first Tuesday of November officially becomes a party for animals!
Humane Africa Trust
Humane Africa Trust received a Voiceless Grant to support their ‘Back to Eden’ project. The organisation has been working with the small, low-income, farming Madojwa community in Lupane, Zimbabwe for over 5 years on animal and plant-based advocacy. In partnership with the community, they recognised a need for affordable and locally available meat substitutes. The ‘Back to Eden’ project supplies the community with a mushroom substitute to farm, bringing in experts from mushroom farming to train local farmers on the best practices of mushroom growing, cultivation and storage. Providing animal-free food alternatives and training to this local community of 30 households, has saved the lives of 3,120 chickens to date.
Celebrating co-existence with kangaroos on World Kangaroo Day!
Voiceless has partnered with not-for-profit organisation, Kangaroos Alive, which is dedicated to the protection and celebration of kangaroos, by sponsoring World Kangaroo Day (WKD) on October 24, 2023. This year’s WKD is focused on co-existence with kangaroos and our support will focus on specific First Nations kangaroo perspective and advocacy projects (including the Yuin Declaration adoption and Back to Country’s Kangaroo Walks and Talks program). There are more groundbreaking activities to celebrate kangaroos and get your community involved in. Visit World Kangaroo Day to see the full program of events.
Investing in the growing alternative proteins market to advance alternatives to animal agriculture
Voiceless is delighted to support one of Australia’s preeminent alternative proteins research and advisory organisations. The Voiceless Grant will be invested in an upcoming Alt Protein CRC bid, which aims to solve challenges and unlock new opportunities to grow the alternative proteins market in Australia, from plant-based alternatives to cellular agriculture to algae. This will help advance alternatives to animal products from industrial animal agriculture.
Total Ethics Fashion and introducing animals into the sustainable fashion conversation
Voiceless is proudly supporting the launch of Collective Fashion Justice Founder, Emma Hakansson’s latest book, ‘Total Ethics Fashion’, which uniquely introduces animals into the broader discussion of sustainability in fashion. This must-read manifesto for the fashion industry prioritises the life and well-being of all animals, humans, and non-humans, as well as the planet, before profit.
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“The concept of total ethics fashion is as simple as it is vast: the life and wellbeing of the planet and all those who live here – us humans and the other animals here alongside us, must be prioritised before profit and production” – Emma Hakansson, Founding Director of Collective Fashion Justice. |
Vegan Friendly continues to make an impact in vegan food engineering!
Vegan Friendly continues to engage with factories and companies to “veganize” their existing, popular products and remove animals from their production processes.
Working with baked goods company, Margaret, they have successfully “veganized” an impressive range of products, including 8 hamantashen cookie varieties, 8 varieties of mamul cookies, and 4 different cake varieties. Margaret shared their accomplishments during a convention held in the Netherlands, where an astounding 75% of their presented product line had been veganized through our project. This represented 24 products with an annual saving of 165,000 eggs.
The project has also made significant headway with the “Kiortush” factory, known for its excellence in cake manufacturing. Three products were veganised and launched at the “Vegan Fest” in Tel Aviv, Israel (the largest vegan festival in the world). The entire factory has also successfully transitioned from egg brushing to a plant-based alternative, saving a total of 24,000 eggs annually.
A recent collaboration with “Mifgash Hashech” to veganize five of their pastries has led to an annual saving of 60,000 eggs. Vegan Friendly’s efforts to convince them to switch to a plant-based brushing option, has spared an additional 52,000 eggs.
This is great news for hens, signalling a transition away from industrial egg production.
Stay tuned, as there are even greater achievements and ground-breaking initiatives to come from the dedicated Vegan Friendly Food Engineering team.
Vegan Friendly’s impactful, animal-free food innovative program
Vegan Friendly is a not-for-profit organisation (based in Israel/UK/USA) who continuously expands the current thinking on how to end animal suffering and Voiceless is delighted to support their Food Engineering Program which saves animals from factory farming. Vegan Friendly’s team of food technologists and chefs work closely with food companies to replace animal-based ingredients with plant-based ones, while maintaining or improving the product’s taste, texture, nutritional values, price, and shelf life. So far, the project has vegnised dozens of products and contributed to protecting animals by eliminating over 1 million eggs and thousands of litres of cow’s milk!“We take a non-vegan product and make it vegan. Maintaining the exact same taste, appearance, and texture” – Gili at Vegan Friendly
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Watch the videos of popular chocolate, cookie, donut and chocolate mousse products that have been veganised without compromising their taste!
Emergency grant for animals injured and displaced following devastating earthquake in Turkey & Syria
Voiceless has been deeply saddened to hear about the devastating loss and displacement of human and non-human animals following the February earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. We took the opportunity to reach out to the non-profit organisation, Haytap, the Animal Rights Federation in Turkey and provide them with a much-needed emergency grant for their tireless search and rescue operations, veterinary care and rehome and adoption work for displaced animals.
Watch the ITV News segment to learn more about Hayptap’s efforts in animal rescue in Turkey.