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Animal Welfare and Theories of Sentience
Is there a moral obligation to help other animals, and if so, why?
In the early 20th century, the concept of animal welfare was still a relatively new idea, but it was rapidly gaining traction in many parts of the world. In the US, the ASPCA was founded in 1866, but it was still a relatively small organization, and the idea of animal welfare was not
Why do animal shelters attract more volunteers who are female than male, focus group data
Animal Sanctuaries - a Community-driven Initiative in Conservation of Endangered Species in Africa
Improving animal welfare in factory farms through targeted regulation
Livelihood interventions: overview, evaluation, and cost-effectiveness of animal-assisted therapy programs for mental health support
Does the use of wild animals in entertainment and tourism, such as in circuses and zoos, pose a significant threat to their welfare and conservation?
Animal Welfare and the Farmed Animal Movement
How 80 000 hours should recommend more people become animal sanctuary owners and managers
Things CEA is not doing in animal welfare
Animal rights, the concept of ownership, and the importance of moral imagination.
Spending on wildlife conservation might be cost-effective in the long run, but evidence that it is so is limited
Animal Welfare Science
Meat consumption and loss aversion
An EAs guide to animal shelters
Animal Welfare as a Moral Priority \| Center on Animals and Society
Animal sentience and moral status
Is doing animal welfare work in a less developed country useful?
Animal welfare in the context of virtual reality
Animal Welfare in the Age of Uncontacted Tribes and Indigenous Communities
What are the EA community's current and future plans for supporting and improving animal welfare and addressing factory farming and other animal exploitation in the EA community and beyond?
How to make animal welfare organizations more effective
Animal Welfare and Conservation in the Amazon Rainforest
Animal Conservation Efforts in Africa
Effective Altruism and Animal Welfare
Contra Lab-Grown Meat
Animal-Assisted Therapy and Welfare for Children in Institutional Care
The pledge to take no part in animal exploitation is a call to action for everyone.
Everything I didn't know about animal shelters
The moral status of non-human animals: Conceptual Analysis, Population Axiology, and Decision Theory
What's the biggest misconception people have about animal welfare, and how do you think it affects their actions or decisions regarding animals?
Animal Rights and Cultural Relativism
Animal welfare prioritization
The illusion of science in animal testing and research
Animal Personhood: A Review of The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan and The Animal Contract by Peter Singer
Neonicotinoids and bees: why we should be careful in assigning blame
The Parable of the Pesticide Pests
Maximizing the Welfare of Domesticated Species Through Self-Modification and Social Change
Humanity's relationship with animals
The Welfare of Sentient Fish
Announcing the first International Animal Welfare Day (March 19, 2023)
Animal Welfare in the Meat Industry as the Most Neglected Cause
Animals can be treated as persons for the purpose of moral consideration, and this can be justified by a more expansive understanding of the concept of personhood that encompasses not just human beings, but also animals. This view can be supported by various arguments, such as the capacity for subjective experience, self-awareness, and the
The Ethics of Animal Breeding: The Challenge of Balancing Genetic Diversity and Animal Welfare
Announcing Whisker, a web app for animal shelter crowdfunding and fundraising.
The Repugnant Conclusion in Animal Welfare
How Effective Altruists Can Be Inclusive Of Vegan And Vegetarian Perspectives
Cognitive biases in animal welfare decision-making
Staking our future: deontic long-termism and the non-identity problem (Andreas Mogensen)
The law of diminishing returns applies to animal welfare too, but it does not imply that we should just ignore animal suffering. There are many ways to improve animal welfare and make their lives better, even if those improvements are not exponential in their impact. It's not a binary choice between "do nothing" and "achieve
Animal Welfare Research: A Research Agenda
The World's Largest Animal Sanctuary
Panel discussion on animal sentience and its implications for animal welfare and conservation policies
The heritability of animal welfare: A behavior genetic critique of animal sentience.
Improving Animal Welfare through Effective Altruism: What Portion of a Boost to Global Animal Welfare Goes to the Farm Animals?
Animal Welfare Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty with Stochastic Dominance and Expected Value
Should the Animal Welfare Movement Invest in Developing AI for Animal Care?
The Ethics of Insect Farming for Food
Animal welfare in the wild: effective altruism and wildlife conservation
Animal welfare research topicsPart 1: The AWALY+: Improving preference-based animal welfare metrics
What are examples of animal welfare research being reviewed by non-animal welfare researchers?
Animal Welfare, Pragmatism, and Rationality
What are the risks of using AI to aid in animal testing and experimentation, particularly in the development of new pharmaceuticals?
If I created a sequence about my approach to interacting with animals, what would I write?
Reorganizing a conference on wildlife conservation to raise awareness about the decline of pollinators and their impact on ecosystems: a possible blueprint
Should We Give Autonomous Cars the Right to Make Decisions that Might Harm Humans if It's in the Best Interests of Animals?
Kardashev for Kindness
Animal welfare organizations' plans for AI safety research, Oct 2024
Animal Testing
Animal Welfare Prioritization Research for Advancing Efficacy and Efficiency in Animal-Assisted Interventions and Organizations
Animal Assisted Therapy: A Cost-Effective Method for Reducing Stress, Improving Mental Health, and Promoting Social Bonds
Should we prioritize helping humans or animals in the effective altruism community?
Topic: What are the most compelling arguments for and against animal welfare?
Crisis in the Countryside: What's Behind the Decline of Britain's Wildlife and How Can We Reverse It?
Animal Sourcing and Certification Standards for the Fashion Industry
Topic: Animal welfare is similar to the AI alignment problem and suffers from the same difficulties
The launch of the Effective Animal Welfare Institute
Animal Cognition and Welfare in the Wild
Why do we need animal sanctuaries? Can we make them obsolete?
On the ethics of lab animal research
Animal welfare in relation to animal training in zoos
A podcast discussing the link between human and animal suffering with a focus on the intersection of animal welfare and global health - notes on a podcast with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Some blindspots in animal welfare and conservation
Animal Welfare Organizations in the Developing World
Biosecurity and Biosafety in Zoos and Aquariums
Animal Evolution After Domestication
What you really mean when you claim to support veganism for factory farming: Part 1
Do animals have a sense of self?
The impact of animal testing on the future of scientific progress: Longtermists' moral dilemmas.
Why I'm still involved with animal welfare, despite feeling increasingly disconnected from it
The Ethics of Factory Farming and Animal Welfare in the Context of Global Food Security and Longtermism
Animal Emotion Regulation Certificates
How much suffering is there?
Unpacking the evolutionary psychology of species on the cusp of extinction
Animal welfare as part of conservation efforts
Animal Cruelty is Not the Worst Thing
The Well-being of Animals in a Post-Scarcity World
Reducing animal testing by donating to animal welfare organizations that fund alternatives
Should the animal shelter I volunteer at switch to a more low-cost model?

Animal Welfare and Theories of Sentience

Is there a moral obligation to help other animals, and if so, why?

In the early 20th century, the concept of animal welfare was still a relatively new idea, but it was rapidly gaining traction in many parts of the world. In the US, the ASPCA was founded in 1866, but it was still a relatively small organization, and the idea of animal welfare was not

Why do animal shelters attract more volunteers who are female than male, focus group data

Animal Sanctuaries - a Community-driven Initiative in Conservation of Endangered Species in Africa

Improving animal welfare in factory farms through targeted regulation

Livelihood interventions: overview, evaluation, and cost-effectiveness of animal-assisted therapy programs for mental health support

Does the use of wild animals in entertainment and tourism, such as in circuses and zoos, pose a significant threat to their welfare and conservation?

Animal Welfare and the Farmed Animal Movement

How 80 000 hours should recommend more people become animal sanctuary owners and managers

Things CEA is not doing in animal welfare

Animal rights, the concept of ownership, and the importance of moral imagination.

Spending on wildlife conservation might be cost-effective in the long run, but evidence that it is so is limited

Animal Welfare Science

Meat consumption and loss aversion

An EAs guide to animal shelters

Animal Welfare as a Moral Priority | Center on Animals and Society

Animal sentience and moral status

Is doing animal welfare work in a less developed country useful?

Animal welfare in the context of virtual reality

Animal Welfare in the Age of Uncontacted Tribes and Indigenous Communities

What are the EA community's current and future plans for supporting and improving animal welfare and addressing factory farming and other animal exploitation in the EA community and beyond?

How to make animal welfare organizations more effective

Animal Welfare and Conservation in the Amazon Rainforest

Animal Conservation Efforts in Africa

Effective Altruism and Animal Welfare

Contra Lab-Grown Meat

Animal-Assisted Therapy and Welfare for Children in Institutional Care

The pledge to take no part in animal exploitation is a call to action for everyone.

Everything I didn't know about animal shelters

The moral status of non-human animals: Conceptual Analysis, Population Axiology, and Decision Theory

What's the biggest misconception people have about animal welfare, and how do you think it affects their actions or decisions regarding animals?

Animal Rights and Cultural Relativism

Animal welfare prioritization

The illusion of science in animal testing and research

Animal Personhood: A Review of The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan and The Animal Contract by Peter Singer

Neonicotinoids and bees: why we should be careful in assigning blame

The Parable of the Pesticide Pests

Maximizing the Welfare of Domesticated Species Through Self-Modification and Social Change

Humanity's relationship with animals

The Welfare of Sentient Fish

Announcing the first International Animal Welfare Day (March 19, 2023)

Animal Welfare in the Meat Industry as the Most Neglected Cause

Animals can be treated as persons for the purpose of moral consideration, and this can be justified by a more expansive understanding of the concept of personhood that encompasses not just human beings, but also animals. This view can be supported by various arguments, such as the capacity for subjective experience, self-awareness, and the

The Ethics of Animal Breeding: The Challenge of Balancing Genetic Diversity and Animal Welfare

Announcing Whisker, a web app for animal shelter crowdfunding and fundraising.

The Repugnant Conclusion in Animal Welfare

How Effective Altruists Can Be Inclusive Of Vegan And Vegetarian Perspectives

Cognitive biases in animal welfare decision-making

Staking our future: deontic long-termism and the non-identity problem (Andreas Mogensen)

The law of diminishing returns applies to animal welfare too, but it does not imply that we should just ignore animal suffering. There are many ways to improve animal welfare and make their lives better, even if those improvements are not exponential in their impact. It's not a binary choice between "do nothing" and "achieve

Animal Welfare Research: A Research Agenda

The World's Largest Animal Sanctuary

Panel discussion on animal sentience and its implications for animal welfare and conservation policies

The heritability of animal welfare: A behavior genetic critique of animal sentience.

Improving Animal Welfare through Effective Altruism: What Portion of a Boost to Global Animal Welfare Goes to the Farm Animals?

Animal Welfare Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty with Stochastic Dominance and Expected Value

Should the Animal Welfare Movement Invest in Developing AI for Animal Care?

The Ethics of Insect Farming for Food

Animal welfare in the wild: effective altruism and wildlife conservation

Animal welfare research topicsPart 1: The AWALY+: Improving preference-based animal welfare metrics

What are examples of animal welfare research being reviewed by non-animal welfare researchers?

Animal Welfare, Pragmatism, and Rationality

What are the risks of using AI to aid in animal testing and experimentation, particularly in the development of new pharmaceuticals?

If I created a sequence about my approach to interacting with animals, what would I write?

Reorganizing a conference on wildlife conservation to raise awareness about the decline of pollinators and their impact on ecosystems: a possible blueprint

Should We Give Autonomous Cars the Right to Make Decisions that Might Harm Humans if It's in the Best Interests of Animals?

Kardashev for Kindness

Animal welfare organizations' plans for AI safety research, Oct 2024

Animal Testing

Animal Welfare Prioritization Research for Advancing Efficacy and Efficiency in Animal-Assisted Interventions and Organizations

Animal Assisted Therapy: A Cost-Effective Method for Reducing Stress, Improving Mental Health, and Promoting Social Bonds

Should we prioritize helping humans or animals in the effective altruism community?

Topic: What are the most compelling arguments for and against animal welfare?

Crisis in the Countryside: What's Behind the Decline of Britain's Wildlife and How Can We Reverse It?

Animal Sourcing and Certification Standards for the Fashion Industry

Topic: Animal welfare is similar to the AI alignment problem and suffers from the same difficulties

The launch of the Effective Animal Welfare Institute

Animal Cognition and Welfare in the Wild

Why do we need animal sanctuaries? Can we make them obsolete?

On the ethics of lab animal research

Animal welfare in relation to animal training in zoos

A podcast discussing the link between human and animal suffering with a focus on the intersection of animal welfare and global health - notes on a podcast with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Some blindspots in animal welfare and conservation

Animal Welfare Organizations in the Developing World

Biosecurity and Biosafety in Zoos and Aquariums

Animal Evolution After Domestication

What you really mean when you claim to support veganism for factory farming: Part 1

Do animals have a sense of self?

The impact of animal testing on the future of scientific progress: Longtermists' moral dilemmas.

Why I'm still involved with animal welfare, despite feeling increasingly disconnected from it

The Ethics of Factory Farming and Animal Welfare in the Context of Global Food Security and Longtermism

Animal Emotion Regulation Certificates

How much suffering is there?

Unpacking the evolutionary psychology of species on the cusp of extinction

Animal welfare as part of conservation efforts

Animal Cruelty is Not the Worst Thing

The Well-being of Animals in a Post-Scarcity World

Reducing animal testing by donating to animal welfare organizations that fund alternatives

Should the animal shelter I volunteer at switch to a more low-cost model?