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Animal Welfare and Inference from Correlated Observations
Insights From The Annual Retreat of EA Animal Welfare
Becoming dependent on or reliant on AI that is capable of optimizing animal welfare in ways that we can't.
How can people be persuaded to give more (and more effectively) to animal welfare organizations, and what are the best strategies for doing so?
Animal welfare in zoos: a shallow cause exploration
Animal cognitive development and brain structure: Why should we care, and what could the future hold?
Animal Welfare in Factory Farms Should be the Priority for Humane Animal Treatment Advocates
Animal Protection and the Farmed Animal Industry
Lessons from animal domestication for our global civilization
Animal Intelligence and Communication
How to Evaluate a Wildlife Sanctuary
Climate Change and Emerging Bacterial Infections in Livestock: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities
Do the average and median years of life lost to animal suffering underrate the badness of animal cruelty?
The Animal Rights Manifesto
What Are The Biggest Threats To Animal Welfare?
Banning Electric Shock Collars for Animal Training
Animal Welfare and Effective Altruism
Animal Ethics: An Epistle to the Successors
Animal Welfare and Artificial Intelligence
We Have Not Been Invited to the Factory Farm: the Narrowness of the Future of Animal Welfare
Should animal shelters be more transparent about adoptions?
Animal Welfare in Low-Resource Settings
Animal welfare in factory farms and slaughterhouses
Animal Welfare in the 21st Century
Animal Behavior and Human Brain Functioning:
Reflections on animal welfare in zoos in the US
The flaws that make today's animal research architecture unsafe and a new approach that could fix it
In Defence of Animal Sentience: Reply to Critics of Anthropic Reasoning in Animal Welfare
The Unseen Consequences of Animal Testing
The current state of knowledge on the efficacy of using dogs in detecting COVID-19, and a comparison of the effectiveness of various detection methods, including the use of dogs in comparison to PCR tests, antigen tests, and other forms of rapid testing. The current state of research on this topic is still relatively new and evolving
Why I Think You Should Stop Euthanizing Healthy Shelter Animals
Investing in animal conservation in Southeast Asia
Is it better to be a vegetarian or a vegan? (A discussion of the ethics of consuming animal products)
Saving the World, Healing the Sick, and Helping Animals
A Case Study of a Global Famine: Assessing the Epistemic Challenges Around Animal Welfare in a Large-Scale Animal Agriculture Collapse
Methods for improving uncertainty analysis in animal welfare metrics
Animal Tracking Through GIS Data and Wildlife Camera Traps
Animal Welfare Reduces Animal Over-PopulationA Counter-Intuitive Non-Zero-Sum Game
Will humans ever be able to control the evolution of animals?
Should Animal Shelters Invest in AI-Powered Donor Matching?
Slightly advanced animal welfare 101: Four reasons not to be a (naive) sentience maximizer.
Animal Welfare 4: Formulating a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of Animal-Assisted Therapy Programs
Moral imperatives in animal welfare and a possible solution to speciesism
Comparing Animal Welfare and Human Well-being
Assessing global catastrophic animal welfare risks
Animal Teleology and the Universe Distribution
Animal Welfare in the Digital Age: The Technological Critique of Inhumane Practices
The Effects of Human-Animal Interactions on Human Health: Evidence of Effectiveness from Barker et al. (2016)
What is the science that could save millions of chickens from factory farms and reduce suffering in the animal agriculture industry?
Animal Welfare in the Context of Climate Change
Jobs that can help with the most important century for animals
Evaluating the Impact of Animal Welfare Labels on Consumer Choices and Animal Well-being
Humans and animals have always been connected through various forms of assistance and care. However, the specifics of this relationship have evolved significantly over time, reflecting changes in societal values, technological advancements, and our understanding of animal behavior and cognition. This post aims to explore the complex dynamics of human-animal interactions, highlighting key concerns and
Should we prioritize wild animal suffering?
In what role should zoos play in preserving endangered species?
An Empirical Analysis of the Welfare Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Livestock Farmers in Developing Countries
The importance of trusting your instincts when interacting with dogs, and how ignoring them can lead to negative consequences.
Comparing animal shelter organisational models
Retrospective on Teaching Animal Welfare Workshops
Animal Assisted Therapy in Nursing Homes: A New Heuristic to Evaluate its Effectiveness
Animal sanctuaries are not doing enough to promote their mission and values
Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Efforts
Animal experimentation
Animalism
Animal welfare issues in animal-based entertainment
Animal Welfare: Farming vs Sanctuary
Reducing Stress in Animal Shelters, Improving Lives
Animal welfare in the context of emerging technologies
Animal Welfare: Livestock Report
The Virtues of Animal Care
The role of argumentation in effective altruism
The ethics of zoos: are they better for animal welfare or conservation?.
(Fiction) A World Where Animals Have the Right to Sue Humans
Animal welfare: Making small changes to animal shelters and sanctuaries
Animal Welfare in Factory Farms
California Abuses, Wildlife Suffer; How to Reform the State's Animal Welfare Agency (SF Chronicle Op-Ed)
The only ethical argument for veganism is speciesism.
Animal Intelligence and its Implications
Animal Welfare of Imaginary Creatures
Why animal welfare needs to be more conservative
Evaluating the Efficacy of South Africa's Strategy to Safeguard its Rhino Population Against Poaching and Trafficking.
Animal research: should EAs prioritize saving human lives over animal suffering?
Raising Awareness for Animal Conservation through an Interactive Web Series
Improving Animal Welfare in Factory Farms and Potential Interventions
Can evolution explain why some species are more prone to self-mutilation and other forms of self-inflicted harm?
Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism in animal groups
Does 80,000 Hours recommend that you pursue animal advocacy if you have a strong background in scientific research?
Investment in Animal Welfare in Agricultural Systems
Invasive Species Management: Known Unknowns, Questionable Substitutability, and Looking Beyond Eradication
Animal rights and the far future
Animal welfare in the context of medium-sized enterprises
Animal-based, non-maximizing food system designs
Animal Intelligence Research Institute
Logical Foundations of Animal Policy
How animal cognition research can inform animal welfare policy and conservation.
The Science of Elephant Communication and its Implications for Conservation and Welfare
The institutional critique of animal welfare organizations: a response (mainly) to Peter Singer.
A Primer on Animal Welfare and the End of Species
Animal Welfare: Interactive Exercise
Diminishing marginal returns in animal welfare interventions