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Effective Animal Welfare: Not as bad as you think
Key Lessons From Animal Movement History
Should animal testing be restricted to cases where no human alternatives are available?
Why should I care about whales?
Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk for Animal Shelter Studies: Opportunities and Challenges
Animal Welfare Economics
High-Impact Research Directions in Animal (Pig) Welfare and Behavior
Why We Should Stop Oppressing Our Pets and Learn To Love Them For Who They Are
Concerns with a Popular Animal Shelter's Recent Behavior
The brains of many animals, including mammals and birds, may contain many conscious subsystems that are separate from the overall conscious experience, such as the experience of pain or pleasure. If this is the case, it could have significant implications for animal welfare and how we treat animals in various situations, such as in agriculture or in
Two Requirements for Any Animal Shelter
Case Study: Animal-Focused Local EA Movement Building in Rural Australia: A Community-Led Approach to Animal Welfare Advocacy and Education
Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) Relaunch
What are some animal welfare interventions that have a high expected value in the most neglected or underfunded areas of animal welfare?
How much do current cultured fish products cost?
Animal Welfare Estimation 203: Animal Welfare vs. Human Welfare Trade-Offs
What can superintelligent dolphins tell us about superintelligent humans?
Challenging our assumptions about pigs
Animal Welfare in Developing Countries
Animal Welfare as a Cause Area
Origin and alignment of goals, meaning, and morality in non-human animals
Can we agree on a better name than "anthropomorphizer" for people who think that animals have similar capacities and experiences to humans? "Anthropomorpher" "Animal-humancer" "Sentient-izer"? There are a few different options that come to mind, but I'd love
World's top experts in animal welfare and science weigh in on the top 5 most pressing issues in animal welfare
Animal Intelligence and Welfare Analysis
The One-Two Punch of Animal Suffering: Welfare Promotion & Suffering Reduction
Correlation between being overweight and animal welfare, specifically in relation to farm animal welfare.
Do fish have a nervous system similar to mammals and birds?
Animal Health and Welfare in Indian Poultry Farms
Animal Shelter with Uncertainty: Turn any animal shelter or wildlife rehabilitation center into a training platform for volunteer workers to develop their skills in animal behavior observation, species identification, and empathy development through uncertainty-based training.
Animal Minds: Importance and Key Research Questions
Animal welfare in low-income countries
The Parable of the Cow and the Abattoir
Factory farming
ACE Interviews: Talking to the Animal Welfare Organization, FOUR PAWS
If Animal Testing Is Not a Choice: The Moral Psychology of Possibilities in Biomedical Research
Does any thorough discussion of animal parliaments exist?
Human-Animal Welfare Organization (Charity Entrepreneurship)
Animal Welfare Charities Incubated By Animal Charity Evaluators
Euthanizing Feral Cats in Shelters
Euthanizing Animals In Shelters: The Infographic.
The Deadliest Animal on Earth May Be More Misunderstood Than You Think
Animal Welfare and the Problem of Malignant Selfishness
How much money donated and to where (in the space of human wellbeing) would ""cancel out"" the harm from purchasing a gas-guzzling SUV that presumably uses fossil fuels which contribute to climate change and pollution, thereby harming human health.
Animal Welfare in the Wild: Global Conservation and Management Efforts
Animal Suffering and the Ethics of Veganism: Exploring the Intersections of Sentience, Speciesism, and Sustainable Living
Can we create a superintelligent, self-aware, and autonomous insect colony using biotechnology and artificial intelligence?
Estimating Animal Aggression
How to effectively use animal welfare charities to bring about systemic change in the animal agriculture industry
The global bird conservation landscape
Animal cognition and welfare in EA
Are there any 'maximum animal welfare' pledges?
The long-term consequences of animal extinction
The Dark Side of Animal Sanctuary Work
Improving animal welfare in factory farms, slaughterhouses, and other large-scale agricultural facilities is a complex and multifaceted issue that involves various stakeholders, including policymakers, industry leaders, and animal welfare organizations. The biggest bottlenecks to improving animal welfare in these settings include:
Is pain just a signal to enlist fellow animals to help injured members of their group?
Animal sanctuaries and rescue organizations
Does Critical Flicker-Fusion Frequency Track the Subjective Experience of Time in Pigs?
Improving the lives of millions of animals through better animal welfare targeting algorithms.
Animal cognition and learning in farm animals
A thought experiment for anti-speciesist vegans who eat honey.
Factory farmed fish - the need for reform
Animal welfare in agriculture: some updates to our farm animal welfare evaluation process
The impact of pet ownership on animal welfare in the context of the global pet population.
Institutional Change in Animal Factory Farms vs. Global Poverty
An Argument for Why Animals May Be Better Off Than You Think
The Importance of Animal Cognition
Avoiding the demandingness of total welfarism with rights-based discounted welfarism
EA Philippines Needs Your Help!
Animal Sentience and its Discontents
Canine Cognitive Dysfunction in Dogs: A Review of the Current Literature
Animal welfare and the case against zoos
Animal shelters donation matching platform
Are there any current students at the San Diego Zoo?.
Climate Change and Animal Welfare
Animal Sentience and Welfare in Space Exploration
Food Shortages: The Unseen Consequences of a Global Pandemic
Federal Wildlife Services, Wildlife Biologist (Endangered Species Division)
Will disagreement about animal consciousness and sentience lead to societal conflict?
Leveraging Blockchain and Web3 technologies to reduce animal testing in scientific research and product development.
The Importance of Intra-Species Impacts
Effective Altruism is a Question (not an ideology)
The intersection of animal welfare and religious freedom in the US, specifically with regards to the treatment of farm animals in slaughterhouses and processing facilities, and the potential for litigation and policy change.
Animal Welfare and the Farmed Animal Movement
Animal Welfare Is Often Neglected In The Animal Agriculture Industry
The evolution of empathy in primates
Animal Welfare 101: Bats are Sometimes Blind
Where can I donate to support wildlife conservation?
Animal testing and research is a widely accepted practice in many fields, including medicine, biology, and psychology. It is estimated that millions of animals are used in experiments every year, with the majority being rodents, rabbits, and non-human primates. Despite the controversy surrounding animal testing, many people believe that it is necessary for
Animal Intelligence and Cognition
Animal welfare experts, economists, and ethicists are all needed to create better animal welfare policies.
The hedonic calculus for animals: capturing the core intuition motivating a species-neutral version of utilitarianism. The hedonic calculus is a method for evaluating the net happiness of an action, and it has been widely criticized for its anthropocentric bias. However, it is also the foundation for a species-neutral version of util
Animal sentience and animal cognition
What are the key challenges in wild animal welfare and conservation, and how do they relate to the goals of effective altruism?
Animal Welfare Movements Drive Conservation Efforts
Animal Shelter Improvement through AI-Powered Adoption Platforms
Should Elephants Never Forget Their Trauma?
Animal welfare in the developing world: Unsurprising things about animal welfare in the developing world that surprised me
The ethics of animal agriculture and the global food system
Animal Welfare Should Be Terrified of Humans
The moral status of current and future farm animal factory farms