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Animal Welfare and Factory Farms: A Detailed Analysis
Animal Welfare Pledges in Africa
World Animal Protection launches new global initiative to protect endangered species and their habitats.
The Non-Normative Implications of Reductionism about Animal Minds
Animal Shelter Wiki
Is anyone here a biologist or animal behaviorist working on the problem of animal consciousness or sentience, specifically the question of how to measure the subjective experience of animals, and whether this is even possible?.
Is region-level cause prioritization research valuable to spot promising long-term priority causes in animal welfare worldwide?
Animal Cruelty and Animal Welfare
Animal welfare organizations struggle to prove effectiveness due to lack of rigorous research and high costs of conducting studies.
Will you consider improving animal welfare in the world by changing your food choices to reduce animal suffering and death?
What We Owe The Wild
Animal Welfare and Factory Farming: Are We Doing Enough?
The best $3,000 I've ever donated (to animal shelter renovations)
The impact of animal testing in scientific research on animal welfare and human health
A Global Animal Welfare Ecosystem
Seven Animal Welfare Wins: The Stories That Inspired Open Cages.
Animal Welfare and the Value of Suffering
Comparative advantage in the wildlife trade
Should We Try To Make Companion Animals More Like Us?
Horse Welfare and Human Well-being
Animal Welfare and Factory Farming in the 21st Century: History & 2021 Strategy
Reducing Animal Suffering through Coasean Mechanisms
How tractable is changing the course of animal welfare?
Animal Research
Which animal sanctuaries have you learned the most from?
Topic: Will animal welfare organizations prioritize the most impactful interventions if they aim for maximum expected impact rather than maximum achievable impact?.
Animal Welfare Pause Will Likely Backfire
Animal cognition and decision-making
Announcing the 2023 Animal Welfare Research Conference (Oct 1-3 in Oxford)
Animal Welfare in the Global South
Animal Welfare and Conservation Research
Should there be a universal ban on animal testing in pharmaceuticals
Human Treatment of Animals and Moral Intuitions
A small pile of thoughts on animal cognition
Should we prioritize animals in our utilitarian calculations, or should we focus on human well-being?
Summary of history (animal welfare and conservation lens)
Animal Welfare Brief for Friends and Family
Animal welfare and the ethics of zoos
A better society shortcuts away the "wild versus domesticated" dilemma.
A call for EA researchers to investigate the ethical implications of using AI-generated synthetic animals in conservation efforts
Feral Cat Crisis in Urban Areas
What are the most important factors that determine whether or not an animal is considered a moral patient?
A simple guide to giving effectively to animals in need
Has your ""animal welfare worldview"" changed over time? How and why?
A system for scoring animal shelters and rescue groups. RFC (request for comments) on methodology and positions. This could include evaluating the organization's efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness in providing care for animals, as well as assessing the welfare of animals in their care. The methodology could involve data collection and analysis, surveys, and
The current AI research setup has a hard time simulating a single biological neuron, requiring 5 layers and 1000 artificial neurons to achieve a comparable level of functionality, highlighting the significant differences between artificial and biological neural systems. The fact that 1000 artificial neurons are needed to replicate the functionality of one biological neuron suggests
Animal Welfare in the Philippines: A Call to Action
Farm Sanctuary's financials are stable and growing, but the organization is facing challenges from the rise of factory farms and the increasing demand for animal products.
Bee population decline is important, tractable, and neglected.
The ethics of animal experimentation
Improving Global Animal Welfare Through Technology
Canine Epilepsy: Exploring the Potential of CBD and Other Cannabinoids for Therapeutic Use
New animal shelter search feature
What are the moral implications of using animal-derived products in space exploration?
Wheeler's single-electron postulate is a concept in quantum mechanics that suggests that the electron is a single, indivisible particle, but I'm not aware of any practical implications of this postulate on animal welfare or zoos.
Should pretty much all content that's animal-related and/or created by animal welfare advocates be posted on a public platform?
Unprecedented times meet unprecedented threats to animal welfare
Introducing animal welfare non-profit Whisker Watchers
Animal Conservation Prize
Donating to Animal Shelters and Rescue Groups in 2016
Animal Welfare Organizations' Updates on Animal Sheltering Practices: Highlights and Encouragement to Submit Public Comments
Lessons from Running a Wildlife Conservation Sanctuary
Animal Welfare is on the Brink of Collapse - Kurzgesagt
Eating Seafood in the Face of Overfishing
Nonprofit Animal Shelters are a Mess
Animal Testing in the EA Glossary
The current best estimate of the cumulative elasticity of dog.
Animal Welfare Training Bottlenecks
Animal Suffering in the Wild
The Impact of Factory Farming on Animal Welfare and the Environment
If a species goes extinct, is it morally wrong to still use the species' DNA to create a new species, such as a hybrid of the extinct species and a closely related species? On Living
The Ethics of Keeping Exotic Pets
Should we prioritize animal welfare over human welfare in situations where both are at risk?
Should you use "Animal Welfare" in your shelter name?
Any Animal Welfare Organizations that offer Volunteer Work Abroad Programs?
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sanctuary Programs for Abused and Neglected Horses
Cognitive Biases in Animal Training and Welfare
Current Thinking on Animal Welfare 2019
Global Food Systems and Animal Welfare
Frictions from speciesist value differences in animal welfare
Animal Minds and the Problem of Animal Suffering
Animal Welfare in the Wild
Animal welfare and the impact of animal testing on effective altruism
The Great Barrier Reef: The Worst of Times
Animal Research in Academia
How to do research that matters to animals
Animal Welfare Organizations' Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of their Wild Animal Release Programs
Animal suffering in the wild
Animal welfare organizations and the public often have conflicting goals in the interest of animal welfare.
Size of Animal Kingdoms
Animal Welfare and the Moral Value of Pain
Animal Cruelty Prevention
Charities I Would Like to See
Animal Welfare in the Agriculture Industry
Animal welfare in farmed animal systems as a longtermist area
Companies pledge to donate at least 10% of profits to animal sanctuaries and wildlife conservation efforts.
Pitfalls in Animal Shelter Adoption Outreach
Reducing Suffering in Factory Farms
Animal Testing in Academia: An Overemphasis on Practicality Over Ethics
Evaluating the ethics of animal testing in research and development of medical treatments