Martin Smrek
Martin Smrek is the founder and executive director of Humánny pokrok - the leading farmed animal advocacy group operating in Slovakia. He has been leading the organization from its inception as a vegan food festival that became a one of the biggest food festivals in the country, through its transition to an effective farmed animal advocacy group that managed to win a campaign to ban fur farming, kick start the cage-free transition in the country, and secure commitments from major retailers not only to go cage-free but to also end live fish sales.
He started with studying sociology, then shifted to social work, and did his PhD. with a dissertation about fighting for improving lives of the most marginalised groups, only to realise that the most marginalised group of today are farmed animals. His current focus is on figuring out how to continue to effectively fight for the farmed animals in a country experiencing democratic backsliding and finding ways how the rest of the movement can learn lessons from that and brace themselves for the rise of authoritarianism.
In the meantime he enjoys travelling, vegan cooking, reading books, riding road bikes, and endlessly engaging in disputes about how to make the world a better place.
Beiträge am Tierrechtskongress
Samstag 29. November
- 11:00 Uhr Samstag 29. November
- Surviving the authoritarian shift
Vortrag von Martin Smrek im Raum
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