Zephaniah is an honorary patron of The Vegan Society, Viva! (Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals), EVOLVE! Campaigns, the anti-racism organisation Newham Monitoring Project with whom he made a video in 2012 about the impact of Olympic policing on black communities, Tower Hamlets Summer University and is an animal rights advocate. In 2004, he wrote the foreword to Keith Mann's book "From Dusk 'til Dawn: An insider's view of the growth of the Animal Liberation Movement", a book about the Animal Liberation Front. In August 2007, he announced that he would be launching the Animal Liberation Project, alongside People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He became a vegan when he read poems about "shimmering fish floating in an underwater paradise, and birds flying free in the clear blue sky".