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A good theme for the next month could be "strategy" since this is a theory instance after all.
How to Argue With a Meat Eater by Ed Winters would be a great read for that theme.
it's only ever been sent like three or four videos from Ed and they were all rather bad. It's always possible the people who sent those recommendations just had terrible taste but nonetheless it has an aversion.
it would be happy to hear your thoughts if you read it, or have read it, once the month comes around. That said, it finds that convincing people to be vegan has gotten easy enough, and it usually has very little to do with forming good arguments or whatever. Where a lot of vegans seem to be lacking is the rest of the strategy. Okay, you've convinced a few folks to be vegan. Now what? Tons of different vegan organizations have tried developing their own strategies, like Anonymous for the Voiceless, or Vegan Effective Altruist orgs, or DxA, and their failures are well-documented. So what should we try instead, knowing that those are dead ends?
But that's just its own interest. it's happy to hear about what others end up reading or what they make of it.