About The Empathy Project

The Empathy Project is a cultural project addressing the urgent need to reframe human relationships with animals, towards ways that benefit all.

The project was developed in response to the horrific depth and scale of animal suffering on the planet today and to the belief that, where animals suffer and are exploited, inevitably, humans suffer and are exploited, too.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in animal agriculture, now recognised as a leading source of greenhouse gases, as well as a key driver of ecological destruction, human slavery, indigenous deaths and animal cruelty.

In our work, animals are brought to the foreground, both in terms of what they endure and who they are. This approach - a form of radical truth-feeling - aims to cultivate compassion and ignite deep-rooted change.

As we move deeper into climate and ecological breakdown, new equitable ways of being in this world, ways that leave no one behind, will be more necessary than ever.

The Empathy Project believes that, if we place the lives of others (those we have Othered) alongside ourselves, we will set in place the restorative cultures that will support us, the natural world, her animals and our children, in difficult futures.