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JAMA: massive study finds plant protein healthier than animal protein; The UAE is a high-income country which farms 22 million land animals a year. Since 1980, the countrys animal product consumption has been on a downward trend, yet... |
Animal Advocacy Africa: Research Outcomes and Pilot Plans; Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality |
Post-Mortem: McGill EA x Law Presents: A Fireside Chat on Non-Litigation Animal Advocacy; In December last year, we announced a new EA project on the forum: Animal Advocacy Africa (AAA). Now, we are excited to share some updates on the progress of our work! |
respeggt's Carmen Uphoff on innovative technology to end chicken culling; On February 1st, 2023, at 1:30 PM EST, McGill EA x Law hosted Philipp Ryf in a presentation titled McGill EA x Law Presents: A Fireside Chat on Non-Litigation Animal Advocacy. The presentation focused on Sentiences efforts... |
Does boycotting work?; We discuss the respeggt's ground-breaking technology, why it is likely to significantly reduce the need for culling male chicks in the egg industry, what the major challenges in the way are in terms of regulations and costs,... |
Are pasture-raised eggs real?; This question is more of a question on whether boycotting can be an action of effective altruism, rather than a particular cause. |
Pessimistically, it seems that there is no way to stop factory farming - and that veganism... |
Where should I donate for animal welfare?; When I first got into EA I was persuaded to stop eating eggs and meat. At the time I was under the impression that the consensus was that most certifications for eggs (cage free etc) were... |
Line-caught carnivorous fish; Why should a human's life be valued more compared to other animals? Considering there do exist some biologically immortal animals, should their lives be valued more than a human's relatively smaller lifespan? Shouldn't an immortal's life be... |
Sentience Politics: Announcing our end-of-year giving campaign; Is there any consensus within EA / adjacent animal welfare communities about the ethics of eating line-caught carnivorous fish? |
Recipe book recommendations for EAs; We would like to inform the EA community about our current giving campaign and ask you to support our political advocacy for animals in Switzerland. If youre not in Switzerland, please dont click away. We have reason... |
How we averted 130,000 animal deaths (in expectation) with a volunteer campaign.; I like food. I like making it, I like the history attached to it, I like serving it to friends. Some corners of EA have an odd attachment to thinking of food purely as fuel, and I... |
Go fishing to save fish from a worse death?; Epistemic certainty in my model and calculations: About 70-80%. There are some factors that I didn't include in detail as I thought the time required to include... |
Part 3/4: Scrutinising Objections to (Traditional) Abolitionist Approaches; I heard it recently suggested on twitter dort com that fishing is a noble hobby as it likely produces a less painful death than they'd otherwise suffer 'in the wild'. |
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Farmed Animal Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa; In this piece, I examine the objections to the following, deemed by EA Animal Advocacy to be ineffective. I think that, in all of these cases, the evidence that these strategies are ineffective is quite weak. |
How useful is it to use a slavery/factory farming comparison as a decision making heuristic?; If you're seeing this in summer 2022, we'll be posting many submissions in a short period. If you want to stop seeing... |
Cultivated meat for wild animal welfare |
Mitigating chicken and fish suffering by closing the dairy gap in Asia and Africa - Longer Version; One major cause of wild animal suffering is predation. |
What order of magnitude of suffering does silk production create?; ... |
What is Intersectionality Theory? What does it mean for EA?; The alternative protein industry aims to replace animal products with more sustainable and ethical alternatives due to concerns about the... |
Resources on Animal Ethics and Helping Animals; Edit: This comment makes some good points - I now think the term carries enough intellectual baggage that it is probably unhelpful as an addition to EA discourse. |
This is a quick, low effort post about the idea... |
Land Animal Slaughter by Country; My first contribution here; excited to be part of this. :) |
I recently posted content on my blog for the first time |
It is a compilation of resources on animal ethics and helping animals. |
I would have loved to receive... |
Welfare ranges per calorie consumption; The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has an excellent dataset that looks at, well, food and agricultural production since 1961 (https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL ). This also includes data on the number and type of animals killed in each country. |
Stanley the Uncertain (Creative Writing Contest) |
What does moral progress consist of?; Of course you should pull the lever; youre saving four people! |
Director of Research, Earth Species Project; Theres something that strikes me as odd about the way I hear moral progress discussed in the EA/longtermist community in general and in What We Owe the Future in particular. |
A New Book to Introduce People to Ethical Vegetarianism; About @Andrew Critch's Steering AI to care for animals, and soon and the Megaprojects for animals posts... |
Consumer Power Initiative- Active Projects and Open Roles; This article has been moved to here. |
Incentivising people to learn about plant based eating by paying them.; In case you havent heard, the Consumer Power Initiative is a 501(c)(3) with a mission of promotingcompanies with charities in the equity position. We believe that donating is often difficult for everyday people to do, because it... |
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Connection can accelerate the end of factory farming; Wild animal welfare has become a highly rated cause area in recent years. Both Animal Charity Evaluators and Open Philanthropy staff recommend donating to Wild Animal Initiative to maximise impact. |
Fish used as live bait by recreational fishermen; For some time, I have been writing about wild animal welfare, defending the claim that we have a positive obligation to intervene in nature to eliminate, or... |
Scope insensitivity: failing to appreciate the numbers of those who need our help; Baitfish are small fish that are sold to recreational fishermen, who usually impale them on a hook and use them as live bait for bigger fish. In this article, I discuss why I think that lobbying for... |
Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in farmed minks, Spain, October 2022; Consider one billion animals. Now consider one trillion animals. The second number is vastly higher. However, it is difficult for many people to have a clear idea of what the magnitude of that difference is. As a... |
Longtermism, aliens, AI; The experiments that started the whole controversy around Gain of Function research involved passing H5N1 through ferrets, in order to ""gain the function"" of being transmissible between mammals. Unfortunately, intensive agriculture practices mean that we may not even need to do GoF research in order to force a virus through many animal hosts with weakened immune systems that are in close proximity to humans. |
Wildfires in Canada; The language of longtermism focuses on future generations of humans. Should it explicitly include the flourishing of moral agents in general, rather than just future generations of people? |
Notes from ""Cognition, welfare, and the problem of interspecies comparisons""; Has anyone done any research on the wildfires in Canada from summer 2023 or know any research done about it? I'm asking because I'm investigating what can be done to prevent it from happening again in the best way possible, if anything needs to be done, and how to do it. |
Launching 60,000,000,000 Chickens: A Give Well-Style CEA Spreadsheet for Animal Welfare; On November 10, Rethink Priorities hosted a workshop with five expert panellists on the subject of ""Cognition, welfare, and the problem of interspecies comparisons"". |
Kate Lupango on Animal Empathy Philippines; The meat industry breeds... |
Resources for Physical Engineers; With us we have Kate Lupango who is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Animal Empathy Philippines. She has over 6 years of experience in farmed animal advocacy. She has also co-founded Effective Altruism Philippines. Animal Empathy... |
The Terminology of Artificial Sentience; Work to protectthe interests of artificial sentience(AS advocacy(1)) could be very important. It could improve the... |
(Summary) Impacts of Animal Well?Being and Welfare Media on Meat Demand; We consider... |
Where should I donate?; Summary of summary: This is a summary and interpretation of ""Impacts of Animal Well?Being and Welfare Media on Meat Demand"" by Glynn T. Tonsor and Nicole J. Olynk. The authors estimated, in the US, based on the... |
Episode #181 - What if consciousness is an illusion? - Philosophize This!; I'm about to start a new job, so I will be able to donate a lot more money to charity in the coming year, but I'm really confused as to where I ought to donate. Some information... |
How the cricket feels and what the mealworm has to say: The influence of rearing environments on insect welfare in different food and feed production systems; This is the third part of a mini-series on the philosophy of consciousness in the... |
Mission-correlated investing: Examples of mission hedging and 'leveraging'; Insects are being increasingly farmed for human consumption and animal feed. Because to their favourable food to protein conversion ratio and due their ability to grown on waste streams... |
If EAs won't go vegan what chance do animals have?; Suppose that you have a pot of money that you are 'investing to give' at a particular time horizon(1). The base case is just to invest in a diversified 'market' portfolio and give to the most cost-effective... |
So, what are we doing wrong?; We have received some questions about our November 2020 recommendation of Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) as a Top Charity, which stem from the fact that historically, we have only granted that status to charities that primarily work... |
How could we know if an animal has an experience?; Dear Friends, |
What are the ethics of eating carnivorous animals? |
Moral Weights of Six Animals, Considering Viewpoint Uncertainty - Seeds of Science call for reviewers; Is there any research on the ethics of eating wild animals that would otherwise eat other animals? Especially curious about large, wild fish. |
Updates to Faunalytics Animal Product Impact Scales |
The pretty hard problem of consciousness; In September 2020, Faunalytics published our Animal Product Impact Scales, outlining how many lives and days of suffering go into U.S. consumption of animal products each day. The purpose of this resource is to help nonprofit organizations,... |
Cost Estimation for Cultivated Beef?; A lot of effective altruists are interested in consciousness, because it is an inherently interesting topic, and because it matters for cause prioritization and thinking about the long term future. But the curious reader is confronted with... |
(job ad) AAC is looking for a Learning and Digital Manager; Hello - does anyone have a (best guess) for what production costs (in $/kg or $/lb) would be for cultivated beef given the current status of the technology? An estimate with uncertainty, or a range of estimates, is just as helpful. |
Advancing Sustainable Change: Securing Cage-Free Commitments in Kenya and Africa through Effective Altruism.; Summary: Desire theories of welfare hold that our welfare consists in the degrees to which our desires or preferences are satisfied or frustrated. Some issues and subtleties exist in attempting to develop a satisfactory desire theory that... |
Radical Empathy; How can we create meaningful and sustainable change in the cage-free movement in Kenya and Africa as a whole? This is a pertinent question that we frequently ask ourselves atUtunzi Animal Welfare Organization. As a new organization... |
Post-Mortem: Effective Altruism x Law Presents: Impact Litigation for Animal Welfare; One theme of our work is trying to help populations that many people don't feel are worth helping at all. |
Strategic considerations for effective wild animal suffering work; This post is a minutes document summarizing Legal Impact for Chickens' Presentation ""Effective Altruism x Law Presents: Impact Litigation for Animal Welfare."" The event was posted on the Forum the week of January 16th, 2023, and was... |
Episode #179 - Why is consciousness something worth talking about? - Philosophize This!; Abstract: Due to the scale and neglectedness of wild animal suffering, increasing work on it could have a very high impact. This article presents some indications of how to do this effectively. The... |
Is it better to be a wild rat or a factory farmed cow? A systematic method for comparing animal welfare.; This is the first part of a mini-series on the philosophy of consciousness in the Philosophize This! podcast. I think this series is a good, beginner-friendly introduction to the philosophy of consciousness, and consciousness is a crucial... |
Aquatic Life Conference |
Trading off veganism and wild animal suffering; Join us for the 5th annual Aquatic Life Conference, hosted by the Aquatic Life Institute. |
The Science of Alt Protein: Overcoming animal-free meat challenges with plant-based tissue engineering; TLDR; When considering veganism why isn't the trade-off between the welfare of the farmed animals and the wild animals the farm replaces considered? |
RISC at UChicago is Seeking Ideas for Improving Animal Welfare; Invertebrate welfare has been gaining recent traction in the scientific literature and among the effective altruism community. However, whether invertebrates have the capacity to experience pain and pleasure in a morally significant way is still very |
The extreme cost-effectiveness of cell-based meat R&D; Here are some neglected donation matching opportunities I've found |
Next Steps in Invertebrate Welfare, Part 2: Possible Interventions; I suspect that cell-based meat research and development could be the most important strategy to protect animal rights and improve animal welfare (with a possible exception of research in welfare biology to improve wild animal welfare), and... |
Dr. Brinda Poojary on how to end animal testing; Whether invertebrates possess the capacity to have valenced experiences is still uncertain. On the assumption that invertebrate welfare is a relevant cause area, we explore here different possibilities of assisting invertebrates, both those living in the wild |
Episode #180 - What if everything is consciousness? - Philosophize This!; We look at the current state of animal testing around the world, why testing is often unneeded and actually counterproductive to human interests, and what the alternatives to animal testing are. For that, we are joined by... |
Which is better for animal welfare, terraforming planets or space habitats? And by how much?; This is the second part of a mini-series on the philosophy of consciousness in the... |
Introduction to wild animal suffering: A guide to the issues; I am curious how space habitats like O'Neill cylinders compare and contrast with a terraformed planet (e.g. Mars) in regards to animal welfare. I currently would guess that space habitats are better because they offer a more... |
Scientists attitudes towards improving the welfare of animals in the wild: a qualitative study; Hi fellow EAs, |
Marcus Davis: Rethink Priorities empirical research on neglected causes |
The New England Cottontail-related controlled fires; Rethink Priorities is a research organization dedicated to conducting research on neglected causes. Over the past year, theyve developed a track record of high-quality research in the areas of farmed animal welfare, wild animal welfare, and risks... |
Selecting an EA-Aligned Biosciences Masters; This post is made to save time for people worried about the outcome of the controlled fires done in order to keep the New England Cottontail population alive in the northeastern part of the US. It seems... |
Is Inspiration Effective in Animal Advocacy?; I am about to finish my undergraduate degree in genetics, into which I have incorporated a bit of compsci/compbio/bioinformatics (my university allows a lot of flexibility with study plans). |
The Metaethics and Normative Ethics of AGI Value Alignment: Many Questions, Some Implications; Are inspiration-based narratives effective in animal advocacy for transforming hearts and minds, and encouraging action towards better animal protection, consideration and care? This essay investigates various arguments in favor of, and against, inspiration within the EAA movement.... |
OpenAI's grant program for democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow; New article published at Seeds of Science |
Animal Advocacy vs Animal Welfare: How should EA frame its animal-focused work?; Full post at their blog, below is the introduction section. |
What we owe the microbiome; I've seen the animal-focused work in EA been framed as ""animal welfare"" and as ""animal advocacy"". For example, lots of the animal-related posts on the EA Forum are tagged ""Animal Welfare"" and/or ""Effective animal advocacy"", the latter... |
Persistence and reversibility long-term design considerations for wild animal welfare; Your microbiome is a bunch of microorganisms living in your gut and other epithelial places. You have a symbiotic relation with this population. You feed it. It helps you digest. |
We are looking for people to serve in our Governance board.; When designing interventions to improve the welfare of wild animals, we want to maximize the expected benefit produced given the cost.(1) A major factor in the cost-effectiveness of interventions is the |
Call for Presentation Proposals for Faunalytics Research Day; We are planning to set up a charity that will advocate for the use of phages to control Antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria. We seek 2 external people preferably from the EA community that can serve on the... |
Case Study of Animal Welfare League's Cage Free Project in Ghana; In this article I argue that moral offsetting is not inherently immoral and that, as long as it's implemented well, it can have a positive impact. I also explain that certain kinds of offsets wouldn't work but... |
Why Genetic Rescue; In The Precipice, Toby Ord writes |
European citizens' initiative for vegan meal registered by EU Comission; Genetic rescue has emerged as a powerful force for protecting wildlife during this critical moment. An Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report from 2019 estimated that a quarter of all assessed plant and... |
Neil Buddy Shah: What animal advocates can learn from medicine and global development; There is a new European Citizens Initiative (ECI) entitled European citizens' initiative for vegan meal' registered on October 18th 2022 by the European Commission. |
link to AMA from Animal Charity Evaluators; Despite recent advancements, research on animal welfare is still underdeveloped compared to research in fields like medicine or development economics. In this talk, Neil Buddy Shah, the co-founder and CEO of IDinsight, draws on lessons from those... |
Request: Datasets with measurement error and missing data?; ACE AMA going on right now at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/z70sgb/hi_reddit_were_researchers_from_animal_charity/ |
Does improving global health cause meat-eater problem?; Summary: I'm currently working on a PhD in statistics looking at Bayesian models for data with measurement error, rounded values and missing data. I am interested in finding datasets, either just to use as examples to illustrate... |
Research for Effective Fish Welfare Work; Somebody thinks reducing global poverty would make the consumption of factory farming meat increase. How about improving global health? My own opinion is |
Improving Pest Management for Wild Insect Welfare; This post is far less cogent and complete than the dozens of well-footnoted, (nearly-) GiveWell quality analyses. After some initial research and writing a few weeks back, I stalled, unsure about the next appropriate step, and eventually... |
Vegaphobia - A Brief Presentation; This report lays a foundation for future research into projects to improve wild insect welfare by promoting more humane insect pest management practices. I summarize recent insect sentience |
How prominent is EA in animal advocacy?; Hi, EAs! |
Maximising impact: the case for research to support animal advocacy efforts; Browsing ""The Good It Promises, the Harm it Does"", there's mention in the introduction that EA is prominent in animal advocacy. I'm curious about how true that is. |
Wild animal suffering video course; Animal advocates are united by a shared desire to help all suffering animals. Each individual animal needs our help, so the greater the number of animals suffering, the greater the need, and the greater priority they should... |
Helping wild animals through vaccination: could this happen for coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2?; Animal Ethics has just published the first module of a video course on wild animal suffering, which is available as a playlist on our YouTube channel. It covers the situation of animals in the wild as individuals,... |
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