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Animal minds matter; there's significant uncertainty about whether most animal minds, wild or domestic, are complex enough to have interests, preferences, and values, and therefore whether their lives are worth living.
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Improving animal cognition by reducing cognitive biases in animal testing, as a more cost-effective and impactful method of improving animal welfare than prioritizing the reduction of suffering, as it could potentially lead to breakthroughs in fields such as veterinary medicine and animal training.
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Animal Welfare and the Limits of Inference
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The Impact of Factory Farming on Biodiversity
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Should zoos be banned due to animal welfare concerns, or do they provide a valuable educational and conservation service that outweighs any animal welfare issues?
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Seeking Researchers to Investigate Welfare of Bears in Captivity in Indonesia
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Animal shelter worker caught on tape forcing dog to perform tricks with hands tied behind its back; DA contacted
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Systems thinking in animal welfare intervention
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Reducing animal suffering through reduced consumption of animal products
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Why donating to wildlife conservation efforts can be thousands to tens of thousands of times more effective than donating to animal shelters.
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The $10 Billion Animal Shelter Dilemma: Abandoning Pets vs. Saving Wild Animals
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Animal welfare organizations are being overwhelmed by the reality of animal shelters; It wasnt meant to go like this. Animal welfare organizations that were once riding high on the public's sympathy for animals are now struggling to cope with the sheer number of animals in shelters. Donors who were once generous with their funds are now dwindling
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Ethics of animal cognition, cultural learning, and the conservation of species in the face of extinction; We just published an interview: Dr. Lori Marino on the ethics of animal cognition, cultural learning, and the conservation of species in the face of extinction. Listen on Spotify, watch on Youtube, or click through for other
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Civil Litigation for Animals in Zoos and Aquariums
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Implementing Conservation-Focused Wildlife Monitoring Systems
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Vaccination for controlling rabies in Asia looks remarkably cost-effective; Rabies causes tremendous suffering to wild and domestic animals on the Asian continent, and poses a risk to human health. Gene drives make it possible to eradicate rabies and improve the wellbeing of hundreds of millions to billions of animals, and save human lives.
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The Edge of Emotion: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
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Animal Testing and Alternatives: If you've been following the effective altruism community, you've probably heard people argue that animal testing is a significant problem, with millions of animals being used in experiments every year. Some people believe that this is a major moral issue, while others think that the benefits of animal testing outweigh the
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Animal Welfare 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 animal welfare and animal advocacy ecosystem this year.
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The Fernald Feeders are shutting down; A group in Ohio that feeds deer in a wildlife area is shutting down after operating since 2013. They were likely a small charity, but I couldn't find much information on them. The announcement mentioned that the group was getting older and it was getting harder to find
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How can we get the world to talk about animal testing?
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A New Study on Compassionate Eating and Environmental Impact Shows a Strong Link Between Plant-Based Diets and Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions; A recent study published in the journal Climatic Change demonstrates that adopting plant-based diets can lead to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The study, which analyzed data from 16 countries,
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Animal suffering is a serious issue in the animal agriculture industry, with many animals experiencing pain, distress, and death on a massive scale. In the United States alone, it's estimated that over 9 billion animals are raised and killed for food each year. This includes chickens, cows, pigs, and other animals that are
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Launching a petition to END inhumane dolphin captivity in Japan; Sea Shepherd - famously known for its conservation efforts - just launched a new petition targeting two major aquariums, Yokohama Cosmoworld and Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, in an effort to release all captive dolphins in Japan. I chose
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The Subject in Subjective Time: A New Approach to Aggregating Animal Welfare
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The Ethics of Animal Agriculture and Veganism
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The Role of Animals in Conservation Biology: Using Media and Storytelling to Raise Awareness and Promote Human-Wildlife Coexistence
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Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Sentience in Human Food Systems; The last ten years have witnessed rapid advances in the science of animal welfare and sentience, revealing profound changes in animal behavior and physiology in response to human food systems. Striking results have hinted at a fundamental shift in how animals experience their environments,
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Should we kill and eat insects that are a threat to human crops and ecosystems?; This is a complex issue and I don't have a lot of knowledge about it, but it seems like it could be a topic worth discussing. Insects are an important part of ecosystems and play a crucial role in pollination and decomposition
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The Olympics start this week. In the UK, the biggest Olympic story is not about any runner or swimmer or gymnast or cyclist. The biggest Olympic story is about a Canadian athlete, a figure skater, who will be competing in the team event. The reason this is a big story is that he is being
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How the Open Wing Alliance has helped free hundreds of millions of chickens from cages
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Animal shelters reporting a 30% increase in adoptions in the past year with a notable spike in senior dog adoptions; The report concludes that the animal shelter industry is experiencing a positive shift with a 30% increase in adoptions in the past year. The nonprofit sector is leading the way in senior dog adoptions
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Improving Animal Welfare through Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Control
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Are factory farms impactful?
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Hunting is a net negative for animal welfare
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Raising the Bar on Animal Treatment in the Dairy Industry report titled The Case for Compassionate Dairy
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Puppy mills in the US are estimated to have between 1 and 10 million dogs raised and sold per year.
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Animal Cruelty
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Announcing Animal Advocates Australia!; We're excited to announce the launch of Animal Advocates Australia, a new initiative aiming to support animal welfare and conservation in Australia through education, advocacy and community engagement. Our goal is to build a strong network of animal advocates who can work together to make a positive impact for animals in
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Animal welfare may be worse and declining; The total moral value of the world includes animals as well as all other beings of moral significance. As such, a picture of the overall trajectory of animal welfare that accounts for all species may be grim. Global animal welfare, including all mammals, birds, fish, and other vertebrates
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EU proposes stricter animal testing rules for cosmetics;
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Animal Welfare in the Context of Animal Agriculture
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The pigs at a large factory farm in North Carolina were not fed any pain relief medication. They were subjected to a variety of painful and invasive procedures as part of the production process. Normally, I can compartmentalize the horrors of factory farming reasonably well. But this story was eating at me. I felt a visceral reaction
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Animal Welfare and Human Interests: The Most Inhumane and Most Humane Thing Humans Do(?);
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The Animal Welfare Implications of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives: A Cross-Cause Comparison of Cost-Effectiveness
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Animal-emotional-discomfort-voice-hearing-and-redirecting;
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California Animal Shelter Closure Due to Understaffing
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Estimating the Economic Value of a Dolphin's Life
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Topic: US FDA bans import of sheep and goats from countries with significant BSE risk; This was ~two weeks ago, and I'm a surprise I couldn't already find anything about it on the forum. Maybe I'm just bad at searching?
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AI for Animal Conservation and Welfare
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Animal Welfare in the Wild
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Animal Welfare Concerns Over the Increased Use of Pesticides in Modern Agriculture Would Not Currently Replace the Current Agricultural Practices;
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A year of wins for wildlife conservation; It's been a tough year for wildlife conservation. The African elephant has been listed as endangered for decades, and the situation has only gotten worse. Despite this, 2022 saw a number of major wins for wildlife conservation. For example, in July, the Indian government announced a
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The Impact of Inconsistent Welfare Standards Across Different Animal Welfare Organizations
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The Animal Welfare Index
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Reevaluating Effective Altruism's Prioritization of Animal Research
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Fauna Connections 2025: On October 18, 2025 from 1pm 6pm 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 research and share
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Feeder Rodents, Animal Welfare, and a Technological Solution
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The reality of animal suffering in factory farms and slaughterhouses; Content warning: This post contains references to graphic descriptions of animal suffering, as well as passing references to animal cruelty and slaughter. Please do not repeat any of the practices or behaviors I'm about to describe. I've spent a lot of time learning about the treatment
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Establishing the National Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Australia - NARRCA; We are thrilled to announce the launch of NARRCA, an organisation dedicated to providing a safe haven for animals in need, and promoting animal welfare and rehabilitation in Australia. Our mission is to establish a state-of-the-art facility that will cater
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Honey Bee Welfare Project (HBWP) produced this report because we believe it could have significant informational value to the movement, rather than because we anticipate HBWP directly working on a honey bee intervention in the future. We think there are a few reasons why this report could be useful to animal welfare organizations. Firstly, many
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Legal status of dolphins in international law
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They're often overlooked, entire of themselves.
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My Donations 2023 - Animal Equality; $10,000.00 Animal Equality
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New page on wildlife conservation on National Geographic; National Geographic has launched a new webpage on wildlife conservation! There you can find 12 interactive maps, 35 new data visualizations, and 7 new articles. The page also includes a new tool that helps people to explore the conservation status of different species.
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What would you do with a $100 donation to help wild animals in your local area?
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Animal cognition and its implications for animal welfare and treatment
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The Case for Veganism in the Modern World
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A Biden Administration Would Be a Boon for Animals: Why Animal Advocates Should Care About the Next Election
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Lessons from a pioneering animal shelter
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Raising the US chicken industry's welfare standards - a roadmap
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Animal agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions; EAs and EA organizations may be making important conceptual or methodological errors in prioritization between different environmental impacts. In this sequence, I illustrate and address several. I focus on the importance of animal agriculture in global greenhouse gas emissions, its impact on biodiversity, and the potential
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Animal Welfare and Conservation in Africa - Notes from EAGxAfrica Talk
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How to realistically reduce most animal suffering on earth; Summary: probably the most feasible strategy to reduce the most animal suffering on earth, with currently available technologies, is reducing the consumption of dairy products by replacing those products with plant-based alternatives and improving animal welfare in dairy farms.
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Do EAs feel bad for killing a mouse? Should they feel bad?
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Better forecasting of animal welfare and conservation outcomes; 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 animal welfare and conservation outcomes, and to identify areas where resources are being used inefficiently. Many of these questions are more
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What Problems Have Animal Welfare Solutions?
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Rabies in the United States is a significant public health concern, and understanding the epidemiology of the disease is crucial for developing effective prevention and control strategies; new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sheds light on the current trends and patterns of rabies in the US, including the number of human
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How AI can help end wildlife trafficking
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Animal Welfare in the Context of Animal Testing in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Proposed Regulations
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The Fight for Felines - Together for Animals"
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Wildlife Trade Regulation and Enforcement: a Potential High-Impact Donation Opportunity
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The Factory Farming Revolution: Why Animal Agriculture Will Collapse
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Universal animal ID and tracking system
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The Animal Ethics website is now available in Spanish
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Factory farming and meat production in general cause a lot of animal deaths and suffering. Whos working on this?
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In the context of animal welfare, what are the ethical implications of animal research, particularly in the realm of scientific discovery and the potential benefits to humans, versus the moral consideration of animal suffering and the need for humane treatment? A review of the literature on the ethics of animal research by Turner et al. 2022;
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How can we better address the issue of animal neglect and abandonment in shelters, by identifying and evaluating effective interventions to prevent animal cruelty and promote animal welfare?
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Announcing Our 2023 Wildlife Conservation Recommendations; Every year, The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) spends several months evaluating wildlife conservation 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 wildlife by providing the information they need to make informed decisions
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Introducing the Animal Welfare for All initiative; Following the success of the Animal Welfare Alliance and the Animal Welfare Conferences, Animal Welfare for All is a new initiative that aims to bring together animal welfare organizations, researchers, and policymakers to promote a world where all animals are treated with kindness, respect, and compassion. Each month
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Reduction of Animal Suffering through Meat Substitution
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Honey bee colony health interventions in the United States
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Three Preconditions for Helping Domesticated Animals at Scale
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Animal Testing Lab Sued for Abuse; Dear EA Forum readers,.
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A Primer for Mammal Sentience and Welfare (as of Sept 2023)
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The Future of Factory Farming: The Unseen Suffering of Livestock in Industrial Agriculture
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Animal cognition and the moral status of sentience; I've been thinking about getting involved in animal advocacy, particularly during the US election season, but one nagging concern has been preventing me from doing so: that the pursuit of animal welfare could actually result in increased suffering or decreased well-being for certain groups of animals, such
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I spent a lot of money on one expensive breed of cat. Do I need help?;
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Should the Government be able to pass laws that allow for the testing of cosmetics on animals?
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Should AI be able to decide which animals are worthy of conservation?
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