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The Abstinence Violation Effect and the project of plant-based meals for soldiers; Wild animals can suffer and die prematurely due to many factors, including harmful weather conditions, hunger, thirst and malnutrition, parasitism, conflicts, and accidents.(1) One of these factors, which painfully kills vast numbers... |
SBF's comments on ethics are no surprise to virtue ethicists; Peaceful greetings to readers. Given the current tensions in Israel, there perhaps has never been a more crucial time to prioritize plant-based nutrition. ?????? |
Free-Ranging Dog Welfare in India as a Cause Area; DISCLAIMER: Although this is a criticism of the LW/EA community, I offer it in good faith. I don't mean to ""take down"" the community in any way. You can read this as a hypothesis for at least... |
For vegetarians: Is there plausibly a kind of fish farm that would make eating fish ethical?; (This was written for the Cause Exploration Prize) |
What food items should we prioritize avoiding?; I've been struggling with what ""ethical"" fish farming could look like. I have some friends who work at fish farms in East Africa and have tried to convince me that the farms are really quite good from... |
New Faunalytics' Study for Advocates Working on Chicken and Fish Welfare; This is still a pretty rough draft; I know I'll put off asking this question if I get bogged down in minutiae. I'm more than happy to clarify any questions you might have. This is also... |
Saving Chickens, Saving Humanity; This crucial study not only uncovers what people in specific countries believe about chickens and fishes, but it also identifies which beliefs are associated with specific animal-positive behaviors for example, willingness to reduce ones chicken and... |
Vegetarianism and depression; An article in which I link EA members' lawsuit against Costco to longtermism and my own EA group. |
How to save a lobster in 1 Hour*; I stumbled upon this paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032722010643 |
Can This Idea Dramatically Improve Effective Vegan Activism?; Buying a lobster from a store and setting it free could do more harm than good. This is because you might increase demand to the extent that the supply goes up by more than 1, and it... |
Consumer acceptance of alternative proteins: A summary of Red to Green Season 3; In ""At what cost, carnivory?"" by Gregory Lewis, ACE's estimation was that the cost of making one vegan for one year was 4.38$ (2015) on average. The answer to improving vegan activism could be to target students... |
Peter Singer on the 80K podcast; Ive made a summary of season 3 of the Red to Green podcast, which focused on consumer acceptance of alternative proteins. In this post I just summarise the main debates. I add a few personal interjections... |
Corporate commitments breakdown; Payout date: November 21, 2019 |
The mass extermination of animals is the greatest atrocity in human history"" by Wayne Hsiung; It always takes great effort to get research grants for professors in college. But, can researches on animal welfare, ex:how to save animals from forest fire, how to cure birds, detecting animals' voice... I think for the... |
Uncertainty in wild animal welfare is not an intractable problem and welfare biology is well-positioned to tackle it; Saving the majority of animals that are suffering and dying due to human-generated industries will also help humans. |
UK government plan for animal welfare; This piece is part of a short series on how the Wild Animal Initiative research team thinks about uncertainty. These posts represent the opinions of individual staff members, and not necessarily the organizational position of Wild... |
I am working on a project to view sustainability and welfare in a new evolutionary light |
Technical research for animal product alternatives skills profile; Hi, dear EAs |
If more activists that take legal risks to help animals, will this encourage the general public to support these actions?; Hey, my new game about animals is now out! |
The Emerging Science of Animal Consciousness; From the article |
That is why Patty Marks story is even more important today. Because what Patty teaches is that, if we are to heal ourselves or the world around us, we cannot follow the advice that modern... |
Thoughts on Oregon IP3?; Register here to attend in person at NYU. Coffee and light refreshments will be served... |
Changes in conditions are a priori bad for average animal welfare; I'm looking for opinions from people who have given some thought to the question of what kinds of tactics are most effective in reducing animal suffering and expanding the moral circle. |
Global Food Partners seeking a Middle+ Django Developer to build a Cage-Free Hub; Summary: Whatever your beliefs about the expected value of the average |
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welfare of animals in the wild under constant conditions and at equilibrium, I think you should expect, a priori (weakly, without further evidence), their average welfare... |
Should we herbivorize predators?; Global Food Partners (GFP) is seeking a contract developer to build and launch a beta version of a Cage Free Hub, a global producer database and resource centre. By connecting egg producers with businesses... |
Animal product alternatives for-profit roles spot-check; The predation problem is arguably the most difficult and controversial part of wild animal suffering. In what follows, I want to make an argument in favor of the idea to herbivorize predators (HP). I will not argue... |
Rat population control: how to lack less information ? |
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming; Faunalytics is hosting a remote symposium, Fauna Connections, for animal advocates on September 8, 2022 starting at 12pm EST. Academics and scientists from the social and behavioral sciences and related disciplines will present on original research that... |
What is the formal definition of a 'Factory Farm'?; Hello, |
I am Alexandre from the French association PAZ. Our association is dedicated to acting for animals by seeking concrete progress. We have various campaigns: end of wild animals in circuses, end of live fishing, awareness campaigns... We... |
Animal Welfare: investor/company theory of change | FAIRR as organisation working in this area, jobs; Insect farming is on the rise. Recent news stories have touted insects as a six-legged solution to world hunger (Time), the next sustainable food revolution (The Independent), and the future of food (NY Times). Insect protein is... |
(Job) Web Developer; The 'Farmed Animal Welfare' wiki page on the EA Forum defines factory farming as being farms where can involve ""intense confinement, inhibition of natural behaviours, untreated health issues, and numerous other causes of suffering""(1) |
Movable Virtual Fencing Systems and Livestock Welfare; If investors/shareholders -> influence companies -> improve animal welfare (and co-benefit clusters eg climate, supply chain) is your potential theory of change then I have an organisation / jobs to let you know about. |
Cause Exploration Prizes: Publishing Comprehensive Books Which Make the Case for Effective Corporate Animal Welfare Campaigns via a Writing Contest for Potential Authors |
Animal Welfare Cause report, Founders Pledge; If you're seeing this in summer 2022, we'll be posting many submissions in a short period. If you want to... |
Sacred Cow: has the Effective Altruism community had its view on animal husbandry challenged?; Faunalytics will host a remote symposium for animal advocates on September 8, 2022 (tentatively 12pm-4pm EST). We invite academics and scientists from the social and behavioral sciences, or related disciplines, to submit a presentation abstract of original... |
What if we are the jellyfish of this moment? |
What is the maximum number of days of pig confinement that you would exchange in order to save one piglet from being crushed? |
Animal Ethics work in 2020; Ive recently been taken with many arguments of Effective Altruism (EA) and longtermism. |
An early observation: the majority of (incredibly smart) people in this movement are vegetarian or vegan. |
Throughout my late teens, I too was vegetarian and vegan... |
Fair Collective Effective Altruism; Excerpt from Ishmael by Daniel Quinn |
Oscar Horta: Promoting Welfare Biology as the Study of Wild Animal Suffering; In the EU the vast majority of female breeding pigs are confined in farrowing crates for around 35 days around the period that they give birth (usually from around 1 week beforehand to 4 weeks afterwards). This... |
Jeff Sebo: A utilitarian case for animal rights; In 2020 Animal Ethics has worked in three main areas. We have done |
We Are the Weather"" Reviews; (Crosspost from LessWrong forum) |
(Creative Writing Contest) The Puppy Problem |
10 Years of Progress for Farm Animals; Utilitarianism, which holds that we ought to maximize well-being, is thought to conflict with animal rights because it does not regard activities such as the exploitation of domesticated animals and extermination of wild animals as, in principle,... |
Simon Eckerstrm Liedholm: Persistence and reversibility of wild animal welfare interventions; Curious who has read ""We Are the Weather"" by Jonathan Safran Foer and what your thoughts are on it. I'm nearly finished with it and curious what others' experiences have been reading it. |
What Is It Like For Animals To Suffer?; The Puppy Problem was first published in SPACE & TIME MAGAZINE (Issue #140) and republished by METASTELLAR MAGAZINE (August 2021). As a sci-fi author and longtime AI researcher, I wrote this piece to address the familiar... |
Petition to end Elephant Cruelty; Its hard to be a farm animal advocate. Most of the worlds problems poverty, war, disease are getting smaller, if always too slowly. But factory farming is getting bigger: the number of animals suffering in... |
Methods for studying wild animals' causes of death; When we try to improve wild animal welfare, we want the effects of our efforts to persist long into the future. However, we also want to maintain the ability to undo our actions if they turn out... |
Thoughts on Wild-Animal Welfare and Hunting; (content warning: factory farming) |
Sentience Institute: US Factory Farming Estimates; Hi all, can I please kindly ask if you could support our efforts to put an end to the elephant cruelty by signing the below petition? |
Open forum with ACE Top Charity Wild Animal Initiative: Wednesday, 7PM EST; This is the second post in a blog series on the relationship between cause of death and wild animal welfare by Wild Animal Initiative staff researcher Luke Hecht. Here, Luke explains how multistate modeling and improved monitoring technology can help us address some of the challenges in cause-specific mortality research. You can read the first post in this series here, or view more research on our blog. |
3-hour podcast about the meta-ethics of utilitarianism and much else with philosopher Torbjrn Tnnsj; Hunting is a really important topic for wild animal welfare advocates to think about. Hunting is a very commonly used tool for wildlife management and one of the most common ways that humans interact with wild mammals.... |
(Cause Exploration Prizes) CELL-CULTURED AND PLANT-BASED ALTERNATIVES?; Animal Charity Evaluators has named Wild Animal Initiative as one of their 2020 Top Charities. This is a key milestone for wild animal welfare research and represents a growing interest in effective wild animal advocacy. |
Richard Parr: Taking good food global; The Southeast Asia Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship is a pilot programme under Effective Altruism Singapore. Our aim is to build a larger community and network of farmed animal advocates in Southeast Asia. |
Plant-Based Seafood: A Promising Intervention in Food Technology? - Charity Entrepreneurship Approach Report; A growing consensus is forming around the prediction that the global human population will reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050 (FAO, 2009a). Providing adequate and nutritious... |
How should longtermists think about eating meat?; Richard discusses the international expansion of The Good Food Institute (GFI), and some of the special considerations that alternative proteins face in non-US regions. |
Richard leads GFIs work in Europe. He worked as Special Adviser to the UK... |
Linkpost - dawnwatch 'Peter Singer is not Animal Liberation Now' |
Rabbits, robots and resurrection; Strong longtermism states that when making a decision, we should primarily consider its long-term effects. |
Wild animal suffering caused by fires and ways to prevent it: a noncontroversial intervention; This is a linkpost forhttps://dawnwatch.com/petersingeressay/. |
Potential effects of habitat fragmentation on wild animal welfare; Warren peace: safe from... |
Introducing the Sentience Institute Podcast; The best interventions we have identified to successfully prevent wild animal suffering are those that (i) are noncontroversial, (ii) can make an actual difference for animals in the present or the near future, and (iii) can foster... |
Widespread values brainstorming; I figured I'd write this to articulate a concern, or really more of a vague suspicion, that makes me nervous whenever I read anything about Wild Animal Suffering. This is going to seem like I'm being really... |
Uncertainty and Wild Animal Welfare; Research produced by Luke Hecht and myself, Matthew Allcock, on the welfare effects of wild animal habitat fragmentation has recently been made available online. Here's the abstract |
Why AGIs utility can't outweigh humans' utility?; This post brainstorms values that are widespread among different individuals in the present moment, assuming that these individuals have a broad intuitive understanding of alternative situations they could be in. These values are: Basic needs fulfillment, Meaningful... |
A library of scientific references relevant to welfare biology; This piece is part of a short series on how the Wild Animal Initiative research team thinks about uncertainty. These posts represent the opinions of individual staff members, and not necessarily the organizational position of Wild Animal... |
How can non-biologists contribute to wild animal welfare?; Two terms to define here first |
New research plans from The Humane League Labs; This is probably a Utilitarianism 101 question. Many/most people in EA seem to accept as a given that |
Job openings at Wild Animal Initiative; Welfare biology is a proposed cross-disciplinary field at the intersection of the sciences of animal welfare and ecology. It can play a crucial role in increasing our knowledge and in raising interest about the wellbeing of... |
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Data-Driven Wildlife Protection; I'm interested in wild animal welfare as one of many potentially top-priority causes. Currently, the field seems immature: we know very little about how to improve wild animal welfare, so the best thing that anyone can do... |
Comparison chart of our 2020 recommended charities; DEADLINE TOMORROW, JUNE 7: Strategic Planning Intern: Help document our strategy, review our compliance with best practices, and improve our systems for measuring our impact. |
A new study looks at how scientific fields have formed; Its easy to connect the concept of biodiversity to wildlife protection. After all, the more we prevent illegal wildlife trade (IWT), the better the chances of improving... |
Suggest a question for Peter Singer; To allow our readers to quickly compare our recommended charities, weve produced a chart that provides key information about each of our Top and Standout Charities. This is intended to give you a sense of what our... |
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Building a new milk; Furthering a cause entails acquiring a substantial amount of knowledge about the problem the cause addresses. Investigation into those problems by academics can help to advance work for a certain cause. In... |
Amy Huang: How students will lead the alternative protein revolution; Weve lightly edited this... |
Where does most of the suffering from eating meat come from?; I've arranged to speak to Peter Singer for the podcast I co-host, at some point in early October. The focus will mainly be his upcoming book Why Vegan? but there will be scope to discuss a range... |
Why Animals Matter for Effective Altruism; I have noticed that a mixture that is 50% cashew milk and 50% cow milk taste pretty much exactly like milk (although... |
GFI's Research Grant Program: 2024 RFP Info Session; Industrial animal agriculture sits at the intersection of many of the most pressing challenges facing human and non-human animal kind. To alleviate these pressures in the wake of rising global meat demand, we must accelerate the development... |
The Liberation Pledge; Like a lot of folks eating primarily or only plants, I dislike eating animals because I empathize with animals and feel bad about their suffering from raising them for food. |
What are the most important charts, graphs, statistics, or other data visualizations related to effective giving?; This is an introductory article for people currently learning more about effective altruism. Effective altruism is about answering one simple question: how can we use our resources to help others the most? This article explains why its... |
Summary: The Importance of End-of-Life Welfare | Browning & Veit; Join us for an exciting webinar where we'll unpack all the details of GFI's 2024 Request for Proposals (RFP)! This year, we welcome proposals for projects spanning up to 24 months, with... |
Which institutional tactics can animal advocates use?; Hey Team, |
Since publishing an article on the Liberation Pledge with the Journal for Critical Animal Studies last February, i've repeatedly been encouraged to share the article to the EA Forum. So here it goes |
The Liberation Pledge entails... |
EAGxVirtual 2020 lightning talks; This post is a summary of the article The Importance of End-of-Life Welfare from Heather Browning and Walter Veit. Any errors/misinterpretations are my own. |
Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened; We at Sentience Institute have argued that the farmed animal movement should shift many of the resources currently used to change individuals (e.g. handing out leaflets, running pro-vegan Facebook ads) to change institutions... |
Announcing our Fall 2020 ACE Movement Grants; In January of 2019, two groups working on studying wild animal welfare elected to mergeWild-Animal Suffering Research and Utility Farm became Wild... |
How much (physical) suffering is there? Part II: Animals; This is a linkpost for #91 - Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened. You can listen to the episode on that page, or by subscribing to the '80,000 Hours Podcast' wherever... |
Announcing our 2021 charity recommendations; Disclaimer: This post is a cross-post from my personal blog. |
Give For Good: make your donations to charity more effective; Wildness explores humanitys relationship with nature through the lens of individual animals. |
Should Founders Pledge support only the non-conscious asset transfer arm of Bandhans Targeting the Hardcore Poor poverty graduation program?; Every year, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) invests several months in evaluating animal advocacy organizations in order to find those that are working effectively and are able to do the most good with additional donations. Our goal is... |
Urban wildlife in South Africa - Cape baboons; The term wild animal suffering is a general term that can be defined as follows |
Sperm sorting in cattle; Dear EA enthusiasts, |
Quick general thoughts on suffering and consciousness; According to the BRAC Development Institute study of a the Bandhan's Targeting the Hardcore Poor (THP) poverty graduation program, transferring non-animal petty trade assets improved the incomes of extremely poor women in India better than providing livestock... |
Charity Entrepreneurship: Graduate lightning talks; Hi all, |
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