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Kate Krueger: Growing a sustainable future through cellular agriculture; Below, I've collected some of my thoughts on consciousness. Topics covered (in the post and/or the LessWrong comments) include |
Wild Animal Welfare Literature Library: Original Research and Cause Prioritization; Link: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2020/02/assessing-and-respecting-sentience-after-brexit/ |
Poor meat eater problem; In this presentation from EA Global: London 2019, the graduates of Charity Entrepreneurships Incubation Program introduce their new organizations in a series of lightning talks. |
The speakers, organizations, and topics are |
* Haven King-Nobles of the Fish... |
ACE Report on Animal Advocacy in India; Cellular agriculture is the use of cell cultures to create new foods. This field of inquiry provides a unique opportunity for scientists from many backgrounds to contribute their skills to a common cause: reducing the impact of... |
The crux of the cultivated meat feasibility debate; This series of articles and essays together lay out crucial considerations explainingandunderpinning wild animal welfare as... |
ACE Movement Grants: November 2019 Grantee Updates; Sometimes the long-run effects of an action can drastically affect how valuable the action is, and can even make something that seems on the surface to be beneficial to be actually harmful. |
Symposium on Wild Animal Welfare; In order to reduce animal suffering in India, its necessary for the global effective animal advocacy (EAA) community to understand the local context, considering at once the political, economic, and cultural factors that could lead to challenges... |
Evaluating electrical stunning as a humane slaughter method for decapod crustaceans: Lessons learned when assessing sensitivity; The production of meat from an animal causes many problems: animal suffering, environmental impact (pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change) and infectious disease risks. These problems of animal-based meat are related to the organs of the animal (as... |
The cost of slow growth chickens; This symposium will explore new directions and connections for wild animal welfare. There will be talks on issues related to wild aquatic animals,... |
Sharing the World with Digital Minds; Register to attend this seminar here. |
What was the first being on Earth to experience suffering?; We are very excited to share the following updates from our 2020 Summer and Fall recipients. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to present challenges, we are consistently impressed with the dedication and ingenuity of our Movement Grants... |
Carl Shulman How are brain mass (and neurons) distributed among humans and the major farmed land animals?; Abstract (emphasis mine) |
Impact of Ending US Animal Subsidies; Note: This is ""Draft version 1.1"" of this paper. If I learn that a later draft has been released, I'll edit this post to include it. If you learn of a later draft, please let me know! |
Lewis Bollard: Lessons learned in farm animal welfare; One of the most crucial considerations in cause prioritisation is figuring out how much moral weight we should place on the lives and preferences of non-human animals. Jason Schukraft has written about this recently here and here. |
Interventions to improve pigeons welfare (in South African cities); Summary: I estimate, for humans and the most common domestic land animal livestock populations, their absolute and relative contributions to the total brain mass of the combined category. Humans make up the vast majority of the aggregate... |
Cultured Abundance - a high detail blog about clean meat.; Open Philanthropy has recommended over $90 million in grants for farm animal welfare work around the world. What have they learned? In this talk, Lewis Bollard, who heads Open Phils work on farm animal welfare ,... |
Where ACE staff are giving in 2019 and why; This is the second post on research exploring interventions to improve the lives of urban wild vertebrate animals in South African cities. We are grateful for the support of a grant fromEA... |
Beliefs About Chickens & Fish And Their Relationship To Animal-Positive Behaviors; The Open Wing Alliance (OWA) is a global coalition of 70+ organizations that are working to change the way the worlds biggest companies treat animals. Alexandria Beck, director of the OWA, explains how the coalition is spreading... |
Bulking information additionalities in global development for medium-term local prosperity; From their about |
Companies Using Microbiology for Sustainability |
What is the value of wild animal welfare for restoration ecology?; This post suggests areas of information that can together lead to medium-term local prosperity. These can be added to any other programs, for example as pamphlets or field officers knowledge. The cost-effectiveness of this approach seems competitive:... |
It's OK to eat shrimp: EAs Make Invalid Inferences About Fish Qualia and Moral Patienthood; This is a linkpost for #99 - Leah Garcs on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry. You can listen to the episode on that page, or by subscribing to the '80,000 Hours Podcast' wherever... |
Jamie Harris: Maximize your impact for animals; WAI researchers Jane Capozzelli and Luke Hecht and collaborator Dr. Samniqueka Halsey published an article exploring the potential for synergy between restoration ecology and wild animal welfare research in the March 2020 issue of Restoration Ecology. |
Marianne van der Werf: Animal advocacy in a global context; Please check out a new monthly review of empirical research on farm animal advocacy from around the movement. Let me know if we missed anything! |
What Interventions Can Animal Advocates Use To Build Community In Their Country?; Animal suffering is a global problem that requires action on a global level. How can we think about effectiveness across geographical and cultural contexts? How can North American and European advocates support advocacy in other parts of... |
Animal Ethicss 2020 activities plan |
Is suicide a rational decision if it improves animals' well being.; Many of us in Western countries take the existence of animal advocacy for granted the idea of living in a place where organized animal advocacy is non-existent may seem strange to us. For example, while animal advocacy... |
Suffering in Animals vs. Humans; Animal Ethicss mission is to educate and influence the general public and society, in particular academics and animal advocates, to reject speciesism and show greater respect towards all sentient... |
We need to normalize actions by activists that demand authorities take action for animals, and support activists if they do get charged and go to trial.; *Copied from reddit, please dont delete. |
Four podcast episodes on animal advocacy; There's a wide consensus that at least higher animals can consciously suffer. Even if we had doubts about this fact, it wouldn't much affect our expected-value calculations, because animals are so much more numerous than humans. It's... |
The wild frontier of animal welfare; At EAG San Francisco 2018, there was a panel discussion hosted by Persis Eskander, then of Wild Animal Suffering Research, with Abraham Rowe, then of Utility Farm; Kieran Grieg of Animal Charity Evaluators; and Ozy Brennan, then... |
Zak Weston: Growing meat a market-based approach to building an ethical food system; From article: ""Because when we stop powerful tools nuclear weapons, or factory farms and slaughterhouses from being violently deployed against the powerless, we guarantee that they will not be violently deployed against anyone. |
https://blog.thesimpleheart.org/p/we-are-all-oppenheimer-destroyer |
Renaming our grant program: ACE Movement Grants; I co-host a podcast called Hear This Idea, aiming to showcase ""new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism"". Mostly, it's a vehicle for me and Luca to speak to inspiring or interesting EA-adjacent people,... |
(Video) Why Vegans Are So Annoying |
Why the Open Philanthropy Project Should Prioritize Wild Animal Suffering; Plant-based, fermented, and cultivated protein technologies hold the potential to shift our food supply away from its dependence on conventional animal agriculture and its effects on climate change, global food insecurity, public health, and animal welfare. But... |
Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not peoples plates.; I made a video discussing activism within the vegan community. |
Bruce Friedrich: Creating a new agricultural revolution |
Leah Garcs: Identifying opportunities for farmed animals; Yes, I think so. In almost all cases, helping humans harms farm animals. The only exception seems to be human birth control interventions, which both help humans and reduce consumption of animal products. |
(Video) How to be a less crappy person |
Effective Altruism and the Trust Business; Demand for meat is projected to double by 2050. Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director of the Good Food Institute, believes we can meet that demand without massively scaling conventional animal agriculture (and the many adverse impacts of that... |
Meat substitutes: outside view; What if a single tool could utilize animal numbers as well as economic, political, and cultural data from a multitude of countries to help effective altruists identify where and how they can make the greatest impact for... |
Cultivated Meat Video Series; This could take the shape of an experience curve graph that would show the price of meat substitutes per dry kilogram and also ideally... |
Wild animal welfare in Hans Christian Andersen (Julia Wise); A year ago, I asked How much do current cultured animal products cost?. Historically, the price of cultured meat has been dropping quickly, from perhaps $1e6/kg in 2013 to to $100/kg in 2019, so it's possible that... |
Wild Animal Initiative's definition of welfare; No, our open-science policy only... |
What are some of the best books/reads on starting value-aligned for-profit ventures?; Hi there, |
I hope you are all doing well! |
A summary of our work in 2019; In this blog post, Deputy Director Cameron Meyer Shorb sets out to define welfare as we understand it. |
Business of Alt Protein: Enabling the success of alternative seafood |
McGill EA x Law Presents: Impact Litigation for Animal Welfare; The following is a summary of Animal Ethicss work this year. You can also read it in a pdf here. |
Online Working / Community Meetup for the Abolition of Suffering; Join GFI and Future Ocean Foods for a deep dive into alternative seafood. In this webinar, Marissa Bronfman, founder and executive director of Future Ocean Foods, will lead a panel discussion featuring leaders in the alternative seafood... |
Varun Deshpande: Clean and plant-based meat in the developing world; This ask report is focused on meat certified in programs that can make a meaningful differences in animals lives. Having meat consumption switch to higher welfare meat could be more tractable than having people switch directly... |
Wild Animals in Urban Spaces: How Cities Can Promote Wild Animal Welfare in the Built Environment; Farmed animals are widespread in number and suffering. Join Denise Morris from Legal Impact for Chickens to learn about factory farming and creative ways lawyers can use the civil law to bring offending corporations to justice. |
Donation Match for ACE Movement Grants; Hi, and welcome to our global community of aspiring suffering abolitionists! :) |
The big problem with how we do outreach; Plant-based, cell-based, and cultured proteins are taking off around the world. This presents a massive opportunity in the developing world where demand for meat may grow explosively in the next few decades, and where differences in... |
Don't sweat diet?; Register to attend in... |
Has there been much work on figuring out the impact of plant-based foods?; A familiar pattern: EA organizations promote charities that help people in the developing world. A critic accuses EA of forcing people to be rationality robots. EA defends the use of rationality in altruistic decisions. But both sides |
Wild-Animal Suffering Research 2017 Retrospective; Summary:Various people (Hurford, Tomasik) have tried to estimate the typical animal welfare cost of a carnivorous diet. These costs have encouraged EAs to become vegetarians or vegans, and EAs particularly focused on animal welfare advocate that others |
Donation opportunity with The Modern Agriculture Foundation to reduce animal use for food; I am relatively new to EA, but it seems that there's a lot of interest in tracking the harm footprint of animal products, e.g., the animal welfare harms of factory farming and the carbon footprint of consuming... |
Nicole Rawling, Nick Rousseau, and Kyle Fish: What role might insects play as part of the future of food? |
Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics; What role, if any, should insects play in the future of agriculture? In this talk from EA Global 2018: London, Nicole Rawling of the Good Food Institute, Nick Rousseau of the Woven Network, and Kyle Fish of... |
Cognitive Dissonance and Veg*nism; Humane League Labs Report E009R01 |
New protein alternative produced from CO2; This is the 4th Annual Aquatic Life Conference, organized by Aquatic Life Institute. |
Bruce Friedrich: From agitator to innovator |
Doing Politics with Wild Animals; Artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a huge impact on our lives and will continue to do so in the future. While most discussions of... |
What's the latest on cultured meat?; Summary: In the four sections of this post, I |
Wild-Animal Suffering Researchs Plans for 2018 and RFMF; Seems like an interesting new alternative to animal protein, with a side benefit of using carbon capture in the production process. |
Jose Valle: Virtual reality for promoting empathy; By following his ethical principles and paying attention to what worked, Bruce Friedrich went from volunteering at a soup kitchen to being the Executive Director of the Good Food Institute. In this talk from Effective Altruism Global... |
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McGill EA x Law Presents: A Fireside Chat on Non-Litigation Animal Advocacy |
Proposed methodology for leafleting study; 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... |
Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history |
New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing; ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? |
The morality of having a meat-eating pet; ???????????????????2020????????????????????????????????????????????????????? |
Nick Cooney: Animal advocacy III; Hi, and welcome to our global community of aspiring suffering abolitionists! :) Our online meetups serve as a platform to help build a productive and collaborative community for goal-oriented people working towards the abolition of suffering. Please... |
People Skills for Animal People - Leadership Program | Scarlet Spark; About the presentation: advocating for animal rights can happen outside the courtroom as much as within the courtroom. Join Sentience's Philipp Ryf in this fireside chat to learn about building and campaigning for an animal rights movement. |
Brian Tomasik The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering; After some of the recent controversy about the state of the evidence supporting ACEs recommendations (1) I started thinking about how best we could study leafleting, and I think there is a strong opportunity for someone to... |
The Economics of Animal Welfare |
New Harvest 2022; Over the last two years, animal welfare organizations successfully secured pledges from major restaurants and grocers to eliminate battery cages from their supply chains, which are collectively expected to bring cage-free housing from ~13% of the domestic... |
Vegetarianism, health, and promoting the right changes; In this article I examine the relative impact on the environment and animal suffering of having one pet compared to eating an average omnivorous diet instead of a vegan diet. Note that this analysis is relative, with |
Scarlet Spark Office Hours For Animal -Loving Organizations and Leaders |
Animal Advocacy Discussion Group; People Skills for Animal People is a new leadership program that amplifies your ability to save more animals by creating a great workplace for humans. |
Portable MRI; Request from author: please avoid crossposting the full essay (instead of e.g. posting a link with summary), as more copies means greater difficulty updating the content. It applies to this crosspost, as well as to potential future... |
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(Opzionale) Il lungoterminismo e lattivismo per gli animali; New Harvest 2022 is a live, in-person event about the emerging field of cellular agriculturethe growing of animal products like meat, milk, and eggs from cells instead of animals. |
Leadership and Organizational Challenges Office Hour hosted by Scarlet Spark; I have had a recent on-line exchange with Nick Cooney on Quartz. |
Leadership Office Hours | Scarlet Spark; Are you an executive leader at an organization dedicated to helping animals? Starting on April 30th at 7pm - 9pm ET (May 1st at 8:00 - 10:00 UTC+8), Scarlet Spark is launching Cohort 2 of People Skills... |
(Opzionale) Amy Huang: Come gli studenti guideranno la rivoluzione delle proteine alternative; This week's reading: https://www.animal-ethics.org/snails-and-bivalves-a-discussion-of-possible-edge-cases-for-sentience/ |
(Opzionale) Vuoi aiutare gli animali? Concentrati sulle decisioni aziendali, non su quello che la gente mangia.; For centuries, people have sought to peer inside living organisms without causing harm, and it's only been a few decades since methods for such non-invasive scanning emerged. Not all methods are harmless, and those that are both... |
(Opzionale) Report sulla causa per il benessere animale di Founders Pledge; byHolden Karnofsky2017? 2?16? |
Tutti gli Animali Sono Eguali; Tra i sostenitori dellaltruismo efficace comune la tendenza di pensare che lattivismo per gli animali sia di scarso valore per migliorare il futuro a lungo termine. In... |
Empatia Radicale; Were inviting leaders of all levels into our cozy Zoom office. Bring your most pressing leadership questions, and get real-time input from Scarlet Spark advisors and your peers at other animal-loving companies. Youll leave with greater clarity,... |
Linquinamento da plastica nei mari sembra uccidere molti meno uccelli e mammiferi marini rispetto ai pesci pescati (esempio pratico di stima di Fermi); Were inviting leaders of animal-loving companies of all levels into our cozy Zoom office. Bring your most pressing leadership questions, and get real-time input from Scarlet Spark advisors and your peers at other organizations with a passion... |
Office Hours For Animal-Loving Organizations and Leaders by Scarlet Spark |
new trolley problem; Gli allevamenti intensivi sono al centro di molte delle sfide pi urgenti che gli umani e gli animali non-umani devono affrontare. Per alleviare queste pressioni, sulla scia della crescente domanda globale di carne, dobbiamo accelerare lo sviluppo... |
EA Animal Support needed; Link: Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not peoples plates. - Vox. |
Holism, Lack of Knowledge, and Transhumanism; Linka Report sulla causa per il benessere animale | Founders Pledge. |
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