Welcome to this edition of the newsletter and many thanks for sending your updates!
I hope you had a great 2022 and are ready to make more impact for the animals in 2023! 🐷🐥🐟🪲🐘
💡Topics being discussed:
If We Don’t End Factory Farming Soon, It Might Be Here Forever and discussion here.
A bi-weekly newsletter on animal advocacy summarising articles from the EA forum: Nov 4-18 and Nov 18 - Dec 2nd
King Charles bans foie gras from all royal households due to cruelty concerns
We Just Can’t Wait for World Leaders to Fix Our Broken Food System - calling for the need for cities to take more action
📕Latest research:
Local Action For Animals As A Stepping Stone To State Protections by Previous Hose at Faunalytics
Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight by Adam Shriver at Rethink Priorities
What do Chinese consumers think about plant-based meat? by Good Growth
Short Research Summary: Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence by Gibbons et al. 2022 by Meghan Barrett
How farmed and wild animal welfare researchers can work together by Amy Klarup at Wild Animal Initiative
Cost-effectiveness of operations management in high-impact organisations by Vasco Grilo
The deathprint of replacing beef by chicken and insect meat by Stijn
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently? by Bob Fischer, Adam Shriver, Michael St. Jules at Rethink Priorities
Does Sentience Legislation help animals? by Max Carpendale at Animal Ask
Octopuses (Probably) Don't Have Nine Minds by Bob Fischer at Rethink Priorities
Neuron Count-Based Measures May Currently Underweight Suffering in Farmed Fish by MHR
VegTO released the data from Toronto's first poll ever on food choices & awareness
💼Jobs:
The Good Food Institute Europe is hiring for a Research Support Manager. The deadline is Monday 19 December.
Fish Welfare Initiative is hiring for an International Generalist, the deadline is rolling.
Wild Animal Initiative is looking for a Development Director, deadline 23 January
For more jobs like this, please visit Animal Advocacy Careers’s job board, Alt Protein database, and the 80,000 Hours job board.
If you’re looking for a job, consider the following actions:
leaving your details on the alt protein talent database
leaving your details on the EAA talent database
🔅Other impactful opportunities:
Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) is looking for a new board member to expand and diversify our team, ideally with experience in HR or fundraising, but all interested candidates are encouraged to apply.
Factory Farming Awareness Coalition is recruiting 50 college students to the Spring 2023 Advocacy Institute deadline is Jan 6th
Fill in a short survey to let a new non-profit Scarlet Spark know about the leadership support that you and your organisation need.
💸Funding
[For funders interested in Asia] Sign up for a video to learn more about Asian FAW/vegan projects seeking funding from Good Growth
[for funders] Sentience Matching Challenge (until December 31) - Sentience is the Swiss organisation behind the Initiative to abolish factory farming, which was voted on this September.
Funding database created by Animal Advocacy Africa - not only relevant for African orgs
Farmed animal and food systems funding sources - public - this is a great spreadsheet with most funding opportunities available listed.
🎁Resources:
WildAnimalSuffering.org, created by Vegan Hacktivists, is a visually stunning and accessible educational website about the experiences of wild animals, why it matters, and what we can do to help them.
Develop your critical thinking skills with free short courses from non-trivial
Free cloud automation for your EA Orgs - EA Consultancy offering pro bono services
🎉Upcoming events
Animal Advocacy Conference: Insights from the Social Sciences - Canterbury June 22-24
Upcoming EAGs (Effective Altruism Global) conferences, almost always have some animal welfare-focused participants and events
EAGxLatinAmerica (7 - 8 January 2023)
EA Global: Bay Area (24 - 26 February 2023)
EAGxNordics (21 - 23 April 2023)
EA Global: London (19 - 21 May 2023)
Connect For Animals has a great website where you can view a comprehensive list of animal advocacy and vegan events, including plenty of online events.
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