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An impactful opportunity to take action for animals, by today (May 7th): Reply to UK governments open consultation on food welfare labelling; I saw this post from Doing Westminster Better and wanted to blast it widely for people to take action today as it seems like a great opportunity, and a great ratio of effort to expected impact. |
On the abolition of man; This essay is part of a series that I'm calling ""Otherness and control in the age of AGI."" I'm hoping that the... |
Cost-effectiveness of epidemic/pandemic preparedness; My... |
Deontological Constraints on Animal Products; There is a memetically powerful argument within animal advocacy circles which goes like the following: We would never ask child abusers to commit less child abuse, so we cant ask other people to reduce their animal product... |
How to Publish a Pro-Animal Op-Ed - Talk Highlights; I attended the How to Publish a Pro-Animal Op-Ed talk by Jessica Scott-Reid today, which was very informative. |
Can AI power the Global Mapping and Quantification of Animal Suffering? The Pain Atlas Project; This article examines how AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), could soon enable tackling the enormous challenge of systematically quantifying the main sources of suffering across humans and animals. |
Sustainable fishing policy increases fishing, and demand reductions might, too |
The Plant-Based Universities open letter has now gone public; This afternoon, the Plant-Based Universities campaign published an open letter to University Vice-Chancellors, Catering Managers, and Student Union Presidents in the UK and Ireland calling on them to support the transition to 100% plant-based catering in universities. |
The responsiveness of aquatic animal supply |
Commonsense Good, Creative Good; Let's say you're vegan and you go to a vegan restaurant. The food is quite bad, and you'd normally leave a bad review, but now you're worried: what if your bad review leads people to go to... |
Effective charities that reduce suffering but don't save human lives? (Meat-eater problem); The meat-eater problem is often overlooked in discussions of effective neartermist charities. If one takes the concern seriously and cares about animal welfare, saving human lives or increasing income in developing countries (e.g. bed nets) could be... |
Day in the Life: Abhi Kumar, Program Associate Farm Animal Welfare; Open Philanthropys Day in the Life series showcases the wide-ranging work of our staff, spotlighting individual team members as they navigate a typical workday. We hope these posts provide an inside look into what working at Open... |
Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents; My article offering concrete suggestions to improve the welfare of rodents used in scientific research is out today in Asimov Press. |
The science of animal welfare is exploding, bringing new ways to improve conditions for millions of research... |
Introducing new leadership in Animal Charity Evaluators Research team; Hello EA Forum! As some of you may already be aware, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) has recently expandedour team, most notably in Research. As such, we'd like to introduce ourselves as ACE's new Director of Research and... |
Presenting: 2023 Incubated Charities (Round 1) - Charity Entrepreneurship; We are thrilled to announce the launch of four new nonprofit organizations through our February/March 2023 Incubation Program. |
New Opportunity: Creating Open Datasets for Alternative Protein Research; TL;DR: Food System Innovations is offering grants ($10k-$25k) for creating open-source datasets to advance alternative protein research. If you're interested in contributing to this field, check out the RFP at https://fsi.org/rfp-ctf or read more about our AI/ML... |
Animal Welfare - 6 Months in 6 Minutes; In August 2022, I started making summaries of the top EA and LW forum posts each week. This post collates together the key themes Ive seen within top-rated animal welfare posts since then. Note a lot of... |
Animal advocates should campaign to restrict AI precision livestock farming; Heres a fairly safe prediction: much of the near-term potential harm from AI is potential harm to nonhuman animals. |
Why Im skeptical about using subjective time experience to assign moral weights; This post provides a summary of my working paper Welfare and Felt Duration. The goal is to make the content of the paper more accessible and to add context and framing for an EA audience, including a... |
Introducing Senti - Animal Ethics AI Assistant; Animal Ethics has recently launched Senti, an Ethical AI assistant designed to answer questions related to animal ethics, wild animal suffering, and longtermism. We at Animal Ethics believe that while AI technologies could potentially pose significant risks... |
Leaked EU Draft Proposes Substantial Animal Welfare Improvements |
Research summary: farmed yellow mealworm welfare; This post is a short summary of a peer-reviewed, open access publication on yellow mealworm welfare in theJournal of Insects as Food and Feed. The paper and supplemental information can be accessedhere.The original paper was written by... |
The Case for Animal-Inclusive Longtermism; In: Journal of Moral Philosophy |
Author: Gary David OBrien |
Online Publication Date: 19 Jan 2024 |
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
Meat consumption and production in developing countries: who bucks the trend?; An agenda for animal advocacy researchers |
The Vegan Blindspot: A Presentation on Wild Animal Suffering; I recently gave a talk at the UK's Vegan Campout Festival about wild animal suffering. This presentation was created to be persuasive for vegans but I'm also hoping it can serve as an introduction to the topic of wild animal suffering. |
Getting over my fear that going vegan would make me weak and unhealthy; I recently read a Richard Hanania article titled ""Eating Animals and the Virtues of Honesty."" It talks about the moral atrocity that is factory farming and how that relates to Hanania's personal dietary choices. I commend him... |
Cost-effectiveness of School Plates |
EU farmed fish policy reform roadmap |
Abolishing factory farming in Switzerland: Postmortem; The Initiative to abolish factory farming was a nationwide ballot in Switzerland, instigated by Sentience Politics. |
Shallow overview of institutional plant-based meal campaigns in the US & Western Europe; This Rethink Priorities report provides a shallow overview of the potential for impactful opportunities from institutional plant-based meal campaigns in the US, France, Germany, UK, Spain, and Italy based on reviewing existing research and speaking with organizations... |
Risk Aversion in Wild Animal Welfare |
Giving Farm Animals a Name and a Face: The Power of The Identifiable Victim Effect; In this post, we provide an overview of our recent scientific paper, Giving Farm Animals a Name and a Face: Eliciting Animal Advocacy among Omnivores using the Identifiable Victim Effect, which was published in the Journal of... |
Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis; This is a linkpost for Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis by Andrew Stawasz. The article is forthcoming in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. |
Prioritising animal welfare over global health and development? |
Animal welfare in the United States: Opportunities for impact; This report is also available on Animal Ask website. |
Denmark will be first to impose CO2 tax on farms, government says""; Note... |
What is the most effective animal charity?; Hello, I'm struggling to find the most effective animal charity to donate to. I care about DALY's averted and I value some species over others based on their capacity to feel pain. |
Is mosquito net fishing really net-positive?; There's a common claim that the distribution of antimalarial mosquito nets is bad because they are used for fishing. I usually hear this followed by the quick rebuttal ""...but I can't imagine who has a problem with... |
What are the most tractable FAW interventions?; We prioritise a range of FAWs, but I would argue many of these are cost effective in expectation because the number of beings who could benefit from (even a low probability) success is high. |
Six months in - new animal advocacy podcast episodes from How I Learned to Love Shrimp; Hello! |
Killing the ants; (Cross-posted from Hands and Cities) |
Before They Hatch; In our latest piece for Asimov Press, Robert Yaman, CEO of Innovate Animal Ag, dives into three pre-hatch technologies that can make poultry supply chains more humane. These solutionsin-ovo sexing, on-farm hatching, and in-ovo vaccination- have an... |
Link: EU considers dropping stricter animal welfare measures (Financial Times); The Financial Times writes that the EU is considering dropping animal welfare regulations from the upcoming Green Deal. The main reasons presented are concerns over the the effects the regulations will have on food prices, which have... |
Cost comparison of promoting Animal Rights content on social media in high income vs. low income countries.; Quick summary: The same ad performed 7x - 9x better in lower income countries, the meat consumption in these lower income countries is about 1/8th as high, which indicates promoting in lower income countries might have very... |
Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum 2023 Summary; In July 2023, the Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum(1)was held over three days with the purpose of bringing together key decision-makers in the animal advocacy community to connect, coordinate, and strategize. At the end of the forum, 35/44... |
AMA: Emma Slawinski, the RSPCA's Director of Policy, Prevention and Campaigns.; Update: Emma Slawinski... |
Do you think decreasing the consumption of animals is good/bad? Think again?; Do you think decreasing the consumption of animals is good/bad? For which groups of farmed animals? |
Rethink Priorities: Seeking Expressions of Interest for Special Projects Next Year; Rethink Priorities (RPs)Special Projects (SP) Team is looking for new impactful projects we can support in 2024! |
Influences on individuals adopting vegetarian and vegan diets |
Over 350,000 laying hens committed to cage-free housing in Ghana; The Animal Welfare League is steadfastly committed to fostering a society that prioritizes the welfare of animals. One of our key initiatives involves collaborating with egg producers and various stakeholders within the poultry industry to establish comprehensive... |
The Epidemic of Second-Hand Battery Cages Being Imported into Africa: What does this mean for the cage-free movement in Africa?; Disclaimer |
Announcing our 2022 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... |
Legal Impact for Chickens seeks an Operations Specialist.; Dear EA Forum Readers, |
Longtermism and animals: Resources + join our Discord community! |
Newly launched Humane Slaughter Initiative webpage; Greetings from Shrimp Welfare Project! |
Call for Expressions of Interest: NYU Wild Animal Welfare Summit; Deadline: March 1, 2024 (followed by rolling submissions) |
Could Transparency International Be a Model to Improve Farm Animal Welfare?; The text discusses the potential for adopting a model akin to Transparency Internationalto improve farm animal welfare. By relying on standards related to consumers' right to information, this organization could develop and promote standard reporting methods, auditing... |
What do the Polish 2023 parliamentary elections mean for animals?; On October 15, Polish citizens headed to the polling stations to elect their representatives for the next four years. The coalition of opposition parties which secured the majority in Parliament has turned the tide of political force... |
Animal ethics in ChatGPT and Claude |
Hiding in Plain Sight: Mexicos Octopus Farm/Research Facade; In November 2022, Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) implemented a global campaign that aims to increase public and legislative pressure on countries/regions where octopus farms are being considered to achieve a regulatory ban, and reduce future chances of... |
New Jury Analysis of the Smithfield Piglet Rescue Trial; Faunalytics analyzed transcripts from interviews with jurors of the Smithfield Foods criminal trialin which two animal rights activists were found not guilty of stealing two piglets from a factory farm in Utah. This qualitative analysis will help... |
Effective Altruism and Eastern Ethics; This post was inspired by a phone call I made a few days ago to my mother where I informed her I was turning vegetarian - I knew it would be rough but it turned out significantly... |
Environmental & health appeals are the most effective vegan outreach strategies; What interventions for reducing consumption of meat and animal products (MAP) have been tested and validated in the scientific literature, and what theories of change drive the most effective interventions? We address these questions with a theoretical... |
Introducing Stanfords new Humane & Sustainable Food Lab; We are excited to announce the newHumane & Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford Universitys School of Medicine (California, USA). Our mission is toend factory farming through cutting-edge scientific research that we are uniquely positioned to conduct. I... |
Review of Animal Liberation Now; Animal Liberation Now releases today! I received an advance copy for review, so will share some thoughts and highlights. (It feels a bit presumptuous to review such a classic textobviously you should read it, no-one needs to... |
How to Get an EA-aligned Job: My Experience; In his speech at EAG London 2021 Benjamin Todd, the Founder and CEO of 80,000 hours, said that EA organisations tend to have talent bottlenecks in some roles, but that doesnt mean that its necessarily easier to... |
Announcing the Launch of the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program; We are thrilled to announce the launch of theNYU Wild Animal Welfare Program later this month! |
Towards non-meat diets for domesticated dogs; This essay argues that getting domesticated dogs to eat vegan orostrovegan diets is a neglected, tractable, and important way to advancejustice for animals. First, I estimate that dog diets contribute to the slaughter of 2.89 billion animals... |
Abolitionist in the Streets, Pragmatist in the Sheets: New Ideas for Effective Animal Advocacy; This series of posts is not intended to re-ignite the never-ending philosophical debate about welfarism vs abolitionism. Its main point is simply to point out that (broadly speaking) animal advocacy within Effective Altruism is uniform in its... |
Getting Cats Vegan is Possible and Imperative |
Running Cage-Free Projects in Africa: Case Studies of Three African Animal Advocacy Organisations; Written by Ayubu Nnko, @Daniel Abiliba, Alfred Sihwa with @Aurelia Adhiambo and @AnimalAdvocacyAfrica. |
Animal Charity Evaluators is doing a live AMA now!; Starting now! AnimalCharity Evaluators is holding an AMA on our Movement Grants! |
Intervention Report: Ballot initiatives to improve broiler welfare in the US; This report was conducted within the pilot for Charity Entrepreneurships Research Training Program in the fall of 2023 and took around eighty hours to complete (roughly translating into two weeks of work). Please interpret the confidence of... |
Shareholder Activism; TL;DR: Shareholder activism has shown a great deal of promise in general with inherent strengths, such as an automatic mechanism for being heard and for getting demands met. This contrasts with other methods of advocacy where these... |
Impactful Animal Advocacy: Building Community Infrastructure; Tl;dr: Impactful Animal Advocacy (IAA) (edit in 2024 - now called Hive) has grown from a side project in 2022 to a moderately well-recognized online hub for farmed animal advocates with over 2000 community members today. Our... |
AGI x Animal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Opportunity? |
Why Certify? Aquatic Life Institutes Impact Implementation Via Seafood Certification |
Iron deficiencies are very bad and you should treat them; Recently I became interested in what kind of costs were inflicted by iron deficiency, so I looked up studies until I got tired. This was not an exhaustive search, but the results are so striking that... |
Resources for farmed animal advocacy: 2023 roundup; Tl;dr - This is a curated and useful list of farmed animal advocacy resources that came out in 2023. We (Impactful Animal Advocacy) sent this compilation out in our free bi-weekly newsletter and thought it might be... |
Slaughter of farmed seabass and seabream in Europe: Literature review; We are beginning a new project that aims to work towards humane slaughter of sea bass and sea bream in Europe. We conducted this literature review to help guide our work. Our next step is to spend... |
Shrimp welfare in wild-caught fisheries: New detailed review article |
Future technological progress does NOT correlate with methods that involve less suffering; Summary:The alleged inevitable convergence between efficiency and methods that involve less suffering is one of the main arguments Ive heard in favor of assuming the expected value of the future of humanity is positive, and I think... |
Addressing Neglectedness in Animal Advocacy: Focus on the Invisible Animals; In the field of animal welfare, current efforts are mostly directed towards farmed animals, and with good reason. Across the globe, over70 billion animals are reared for food every year. Yet, advocacy endeavours in favour of other... |
Evaluating claims about ContraPest; TL;DR: We conclude that there is some evidence against ContraPests claims that the product is humane, it is not an endocrine disruptor, and its effects are reversible. The literature suggests that the active ingredients in ContraPest may... |
Theories of Welfare and Welfare Range Estimates |
Extending Existing Animal Protection Laws; This report was conducted within the pilot for Charity Entrepreneurships Research Training Program in the fall of 2023 and took around eighty hours to complete (roughly translating into two weeks of work). Please interpret the confidence of... |
Brian Tomasik on climate change; This is a linkpost for Brian Tomasik's posts on climate change. |
Frontiers of Pain: The Cumulative Pain Framework and Multi-Objective Optimisation; A way of comparing how much suffering different interventions reduce, without requiring weightings between intensities. |
Demodex mites: Large and neglected group of wild animals; This article contains information about the human body that some readers may find uncomfortable. There is nothing graphic, but there is detailed information about a genus of human parasites. |
Global performance indicators: Could they help improve animal welfare policy?; TL;DR: Global performance indicators (GPIs) compare countries' policy performance, encouraging competition and pressuring policymakers for reforms. While effective, creating GPIs carries risks such as public backlash. However, certain characteristics can mitigate these risks and enhance GPI success.... |
Self-care in animal advocacy: Some resources I like; I've... |
Stuff I buy and use: a listicle to boost your consumer surplus and productivity; Note: this post was originally written for my blog(1), which may be why some parts might not appear to have been written for the Forum. I may publish a more anecdote-rich, freewheeling version there soon, in which... |
Fish Welfare Initiative Strategy Update: Broadening Our Research Mandate in India; Note that the following is cross-posted from our blog. We're also posting it here for the dual purposes of both visibility and transparency, especially as the effective altruism community has been so integral to our work from... |
Preprint: Controlled experiments on reducing meat portion sizes; This post summarizes a new preprint by the Stanford Humane and Sustainable Food Lab, led by PhD student Anas Vo?ki... |
EA for Biodiversity: EcoResilience Initiative; We are EcoResilience Initiative, a 2 year old research group building an effective altruism-based recommendation framework for biodiversity and ecosystems. |
Starting and running your own mini projects: What I've learnt running a newsletter for a year |
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