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Lives not worth living?; I think there's significant uncertainty about whether most sentient lives, human or non-human,... |
Seeking Ripple Effects; Most debate week responses so far seem to strongly favor animal welfare, on the grounds that it is (likely) vastly more cost-effective in terms of pure suffering-reduction. I see two main ways to resist prioritizing suffering-reduction |
Experience size; This post is a bit rougher than I would otherwise have posted, but I figured it was worth getting it out this week while more people are thinking about the $100m to on animal welfare vs. global... |
The Extent of Animal Suffering; The extent of animal suffering at the hands of humans is truly not comprehensible. The extent ofhumansuffering alone is stillnearly impossible to processnot to mention animal lives, who exist in far larger numbers than humans due to... |
Discussion thread: Animal Welfare vs. Global Health Debate Week; When you comment on your vote on the debate week banner, your comment will appear on this thread. Use this thread to respond to other people's arguments, and discuss the debate topic. |
Seeking Researchers to Investigate Farmed Fish Stunning in India; Hey all! |
Poultry giant Foster Farms caught driving forklifts over chickens, throwing them, and kicking them; DA contacted; Hi Everyone! |
What does the systems perspective say about effective interventions?; When reading through some things on the debate week here, I found this comment from Arepo on why he chose to... |
I have stepped aside from my role as Executive Director because I think it will help more animals |
A summary on why donating to highly effective Animal Rights Organizations can be thousands to tens of thousands of times more effective in helping animals than donating to sanctuaries. Please maximize the impact of your donations.; Hi, this is originally an answer to a comment on reddit in a thread about effective ways to donate, since it took me a long time to research and write this answer, I wanted to also post... |
The $100 Million Dilemma: Human Lives vs. Endangered SpeciesWhich Should We Save?; Imagine this scenario: Youre handed $100 million with one crucial conditionuse it to either save one million human lives or protect endangered species and their ecosystems. The decision isnt as straightforward as it first appears. On one... |
Positive trends on alternative proteins; It wasnt meant to go like this. Alternative protein startups that were once soaring are now struggling. Impact investors who were once everywhere are now absent. Banks that confidently... |
#203 Interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation (Peter Godfrey-Smith on on The 80,000 Hours Podcast); We just published an interview: Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation. Listen on Spotify, watch on Youtube, or click through for other audio options, the transcript, and related... |
Civil Litigation for Farmed Animals - Notes From EAGxBerkeley Talk; These are my notes of the ""Civil Litigation for Farmed Animals"" from EAGxBerkeley, given by Alene Anello, president of Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC). |
Unjournal: ""Research with potential for impact"" database; I don't think I posted this here yet and wanted to make sure people are aware of it. Please let me know what you think, how you might use it, how we can make it more useful,... |
Policy advocacy for eradicating screwworm looks remarkably cost-effective; The New World Screwworm causes tremendous suffering to wild and domestic animals on the South American continent. Gene drives make it possible to eradicate the screwworm and improve the wellbeing of hundreds of millions to billions of... |
The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI; My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at https://academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a PDF of the whole... |
How do you deal with the ""meat eater"" problem; I've heard people argue that it's possible global health and development could actually be negative utility due to the consequence of increased meat consumption and also factory farming. It feels like EAs who value... |
EA Wins 2023; As the year comes to an end, we want to highlight and celebrate some of the incredible achievements from in and around the effective altruism ecosystem this year. |
Material Innovation Initiative (MII) shuts down; The ""GFI of vegan materials"" is shutting down after operating since 2019. They were an ACE-recommended charity at one point. No rationale is given in the announcement. I asked for more, and will update this post if... |
How can we get the world to talk about factory farming? |
New Study on Conservative Values in the United States Identifies Areas of Overlap with Animal Welfare Priorities; New research from Faunalytics shows how conservative political values in the United States can align with initiatives to help animals at both the state and national levels. The report identifies which animal causes are most likely to... |
Killing the moths; Content warning: description of animal... |
Launching a petition to END preprogrammed suffering in broiler chickens in Switzerland; Sentience - famously known for itsinitiative to abolish factory farming - just launched a new petition targeting two major Swiss retailers, Coop and Migros. |
The Subject in Subjective Time: A New Approach to Aggregating Wellbeing (paper draft); What follows is a lightly edited version of the thesis I wrote for my Bioethics MA program. I'm hoping to do more with this in the future, including seeking publication and/or expanding it into a dissertation or... |
Introduction to suffering-focused ethics; By Simon Knutsson and Magnus Vinding |
Are We Leaving the Individual Behind? The Role of Animal Storytelling in the Animal Rights Movement; The animal rights movement should focus more on telling stories of individual animals to increase empathy and effectiveness, as people respond more strongly to identifiable victims than to statistics. |
Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness; The last ten years have witnessed rapid advances in the science of animal cognition and behavior. Striking results have hinted at surprisingly rich inner lives in a wide range of animals, driving renewed debate about animal consciousness. |
It's OK to kill and eat animals - but don't get caught slapping one.; Very short post. This is not my area of expertise at all. But it seems like an opportunity. |
The Olympics start this week. In the UK, the biggest Olympic story is not about any runner or swimmer or... |
How the Open Wing Alliance has helped free hundreds of millions of chickens from cages |
89%of cage-free egg commitments with deadlines of 2023 or earlier have been fulfilled; The report concludes that the cage-free fulfillment rate is maintaining its momentum at 89%. The producer, retailer, and manufacturer industries are some of the most cage-free forward sectors when it comes to fulfillment. Some major companies across... |
animal welfare outside of EA - numbers and thoughts on UFAW 2024; Last week I attended the UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference 2024 in Porto. Here are some facts about the conference and its content as well as some personal impressions. I hope this gives some insights into animal... |
Are petitions impactful?; Petitions are often advertised within EA circles, especially in relation to animal welfare. |
Farmed animals are neglected |
New Report: ""Who's Selling You Frankenchickens?""; The State of the Chicken Industry report titled Whos selling you Frankenchickens? argues that minimum welfare standards should be... |
170to 700 billionfish raised and fed live to mandarin fish in China per year |
Tragic Beliefs; I'mposting this as part of the ForumsBenjamin LayDay celebration consider writing a reflection of your own! The official dates for this reflection are February 8 - 15 (but you can write about this topic whenever you... |
Announcing UK Voters for Animals!; Were excited to announce a new volunteer-run organisation,UK Voters For Animals, dedicated to mobilising UK voters to win key legislative changes for farmed animals. Our goal is to recruit and train voters to meet with MPs and... |
Net global welfare may be negative and declining; The total moral value of the world includes humans as well as all other beings of moral significance. As such, a picture of the overall trajectory of net global welfare that accounts for both human and non-human... |
UK moves toward mandatory animal welfare labelling; Here in the UK, the government is consulting on mandatory animal welfare labelling (closing 7 May 2024). People may wish to respond if they want to express their support or share thoughts and evidence that could shape... |
Report: The Broken State of Animal Advocacy in Universities; The following report is also available at the website of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection. |
No injuries were reported; 100,000 chickens were killed in a fire at a Connecticut farm a few weeks ago. Normally, I can compartmentalise the horrors of factory farming reasonably well. But this story was eating at me. I felt a visceral... |
Debating AIs Moral Status: The Most Humane and Silliest Thing Humans Do(?); A few months ago, I read 2017 Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood. More recently, I came across this paper titled AI alignment vs AI ethical treatment: Ten challenges. And just yesterday, I found 80,000 Hours article,... |
Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model: Introduction and Overview; This post is a part of Rethink Priorities Worldview Investigations TeamsCURVE Sequence: Causes and Uncertainty: Rethinking Value in Expectation. The aim of this sequence is twofold: first, to consider alternatives to expected value maximization for cause prioritization;... |
A top-effective public outreach: small-farmed-animal reducetarian deep questioning; For two decades, I did a lot of public outreach: talking with people from the broad or general public (on the streets,) to persuade them to do something good. Now I believe that most of such public... |
US Supreme Court Upholds Prop 12!; The United States Supreme Court just released its decision on the country's most pivotal farmed animal welfare caseNATIONAL PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL ET AL. v. ROSS, SECRETARY OF THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, ET AL. upholding... |
Rethink Priorities Welfare Range Estimates |
Florida and Alabama ban cultivated meat; This was ~three weeks ago, so I'm a little surprised I couldn't already find anything about it on the forum. Maybe I'm just bad at searching? |
AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 - Retrospective; This is a retrospective of theAIADM 2024 Conference, Retreat, and Co-working in London. |
AMA: Lewis Bollard, Program Director of Farm Animal Welfare at OpenPhil; Lewis Bollard, Program Director of Farm Animal Welfare at Open Philanthropy, will be holding an AMA on Wednesday 8th of May.... |
Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat; Plant-based meats, like the Beyond Sausage or Impossible Burger, and cultivated meats have become a source of optimism for reducing animal-based meat usage. |
A year of wins for farmed animals; Its been a tough year for farmed animals. The European... |
Causes and Uncertainty: Rethinking Value in Expectation; This is the first post in Rethink Priorities Worldview Investigations Teams CURVE Sequence: Causes and Uncertainty: Rethinking Value in Expectation. The aim of this sequence is to considersome alternatives to expected value maximization for cause prioritization and,... |
The Welfare Range Table |
Why I No Longer Prioritize Wild Animal Welfare; This is the story of how I came to see Wild Animal Welfare (WAW) as a less promising cause than I did initially. I summarise three articles I wrote on WAW:Why its difficult to find cost-effective WAW... |
Fauna Connections 2024; On September 19, 2024 from 12pm 5pm EST, Faunalytics will host Fauna Connections, a free, remote research symposium for animal advocates! Academics and scientists from the social and behavioral sciences and related disciplines will present original... |
Two Concrete Ways to Help Feeder Rodents; Feeder rodents are rodents that are fed to pet reptiles, mainly snakes. After many years of consolidation and growth, feeder rodent farming has turned into an invisible form of factory farming. Indeed, we estimate there are 200-650... |
Reminding myself just how awful pain can get (plus, an experiment on myself); Content warning: This post contains references to extreme pain and self-harm, as well as passing references to suicide, needles, and specific forms of suffering (but not detailed descriptions). Please do not repeat any of the experiments I've... |
Announcing the Launch of the National Observatory on Insect Farming in France - ONEI; We are excited to announce the launch of the ONEI, an organisation dedicated to informing decision-making about insect farming in France (Observatoire National de l'Elevage d'Insectes). |
Shrimp Paste and Animal Welfare; Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) produced this report because we believe it could have significant informational value to the movement, rather than because we anticipate SWP directly working on a shrimp paste intervention in the future. We think... |
Animal Welfare is now enshrined in the Belgian Constitution; A while back, I wrote a quicktake about how the Belgian Senate voted to enshrine animal welfare in the Constitution. |
What happens on the average day?; No man is an island, entire of itself. John Donne, Meditation XVII |
My Donations 2023 - Marcus Abramovitch; $8003.98 Charity Entrepreneurship |
New page on animal welfare on Our World in Data; Our team at Our World in Data just launched a new page on animal welfare! There you can find a brand new Animal Welfare Data Explorer, 22 interactive charts, and 4 new articles |
Where would you donate $100 to animal welfare?; Suppose you had a marginal $100 and cared principally about animal welfare as a cause. Where (to what specific charity) would you, personally, donate it and why? |
Fighting animal suffering: beyond the number of animals killed |
In memory of Steven M. Wise; LINK: https://everloved.com/life-of/steven-wise/obituary/ |
A Trump Administration Would Be Disasterous for Animals: Why Animal Advocates Should Care About the Next Election; While the US presidential election is inherently a polarizing topic, animal advocates on the right and left should be mutually concerned about a Trump reelection. This post is a transparent evaluation of the trade-offs of the election... |
Lessons from two pioneering advocates for farmed animals |
Growing the US tofu market - a roadmap; (Thank you... |
Sequence overview: Welfare and moral weights; EAs and EA organizations may be making important conceptual or methodological errors in prioritization between moral patients. In this sequence, I illustrate and address several |
State of the Movement for Farmed Animals - Notes From EAGxBerkeley Talk; These are my notes of the ""State of the Movement for Farmed Animals"" from EAGxBerkeley, given by Monica Chen, Executive Director of the New Roots Institute. |
How to realistically reduce most suffering on earth; Summary: probably the most feasible strategy to reduce the most suffering on Earth, with currently available technologies, is reducing the consumption of products from small animals such as chickens, fish and shrimp by replacing those products with... |
Do EAs feel bad for killing a mosquito? Should they feel bad?; I'm interested in knowing this |
Long list of AI questions; tl;dr: This document contains a list of forecasting questions, commissioned by Open Philanthropy as part of its aim to have more accurate models of future AI progress. Many of these questions are more classic forecasting questions, others... |
What Problems Have Mechanical Solutions?; Although I'm asking this because a friend asked me for ideas for her project, this post could be a valuable ongoing resource for others who have problems that can be solved with mechanical engineering and mechanical engineers... |
New Study Establishes Salary Trends in the U.S. Animal Advocacy Movement; New research from Faunalytics establishes salary and benefits trends in the U.S. farmed animal protection movement. The report provides salary data across organizational revenue size, job level groupings, and job families. Furthermore, executive salaries among farmed animal... |
#185 The 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals (Lewis Bollard on the 80,000 Hours Podcast); We just published an interview: Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad foranimals. Listen on Spotify or click through for other audio... |
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Historical Farmed Animal Welfare Ballot Initiatives; On May 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a 2018 California law, Proposition 12, which banned the sale of certain animal products that did not meet minimum welfare standards. Especially now that such... |
Voluntary Energy - Together for Animals"" brought together more than 100 defenders of the animal cause; On August 31, 2024, the Memorial da Amrica Latina, in So Paulo... |
Electric Shrimp Stunning: a Potential High-Impact Donation Opportunity |
May The Factory Farms Burn; Cross-post of this. |
Megaprojects for animals |
Animal Ethics website now in Arabic; We are excited to announce that theAnimal Ethics website is now available in Arabic. This marks an important milestone in our mission to spread ideas that can help all animals. With Arabic being the 5th most spoken... |
Shrimp paste might cause more animal deaths than any other food product. Whos working on this? |
Short Research Summary: Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence by Gibbons et al. 2022; This short research summary briefly highlights the major results of a new publication on the scientific evidence for insect pain in Advances in Insect Physiologyby Gibbons et al. (2022). This EA Forum post was prepared by Meghan... |
Pivotal questions: an Unjournal trial initiative; The Unjournalis seeking pivotal questions to guide our choice of research papers to commission for evaluation; express your interest/offer suggestions here. See the full protocol for this project in our knowledge base here (link fixed). |
Announcing Our 2023 Charity Recommendations; Every year, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) spends several months evaluating animal advocacy organizations to identify those that work effectively and are able to do the most good with additional donations. Our goal is to help people help... |
Introducing the AI for Animals newsletter; Following the success of theAI, Animals, and Digital Minds conference earlier this month,AI for Animals is a new newsletter of resources and updates around the intersection of AI and animals. Each month or so, well give a... |
Cost Effectiveness of Cultivated Meat; Hey all! I have a simple question with a complicated answer- how cost effective is cultivated meat? In other words, how good is it to put a dollar into cultivated meat? |
Linkpost: Prospective cost-effectiveness of farmed fish stunning corporate commitments in Europe |
Three Preconditions for Helping Wild Animals at Scale |
KFC Supplier Sued for Cruelty; Dear EA Forum readers, |
A Primer for Insect Sentience and Welfare (as of Sept 2023); This post was written by me, Meghan Barrett, in my independent capacity as an academic research scientist and entomologist. None of the organizations with which I'm affiliated should be taken to endorse or support any particular conclusions... |
Ticking Clock: The Rapid Rise of Farmed Animals in Africa; As humanity continues its era of rapid population growth and rising economic prosperity, the demand for animal protein is anticipated to reach unparalleled heights. This surge in consumption is set to drastically impact the lives of farmed... |
Is climate change good?; I've been thinking about getting involved in climate activism, particularly during the US election season, but one nagging concern has been preventing me from doing so: that climate change mitigation could actually result in increased suffering. |
I spent a lot of time and money on one dog. Do I need help?; My girlfriend and me were recently in Mexico. After speaking at a... |
Update Unjournal wants YOU: to do an ""Independent evaluation"" |
Steering AI to care for animals, and soon; I'm worried that animal welfare advocates might neglect the importance of AI in determining what happens to animals. More specifically, I'm worried that the value |
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