About The Empathy Project

The Empathy Project addresses the need to reframe human relationships with animals, in ways that benefit nature, the animals and humans.

The project was developed in empathetic response to the depth and scale of animal suffering; it was also developed in the belief that, where animals suffer and are exploited, inevitably, humans suffer and are exploited, too.

Nowhere is this more apparent, for example, than in animal agriculture, now widely regarded as the leading source of greenhouse gases, ecological destruction, human slavery and animal cruelty.

In this work, as much as possible, the experience and the reality of the animal is brought to the fore. This approach aims to challenge the myth of human supremacy whilst cultivating compassion and building empathy between all beings. As we move deeper into climate and ecological systems that face multiple catastrophes, compassion and empathy will be more needed than ever.

The Empathy Project believes that, if we place the lives of others - those that we have othered - alongside ourselves, we will set in place restorative cultures that will support us, the natural world and our children’s futures, even as we face collapse.