Hello, 2024! 🎊🎊🎊
As we step into the new year, we’re excited for what’s to come. We’ll continue building helpful newsletters, facilitating movement collaboration — and will probably host a few fun events along the way 😎
In case you missed it, we wrapped up last year with a special edition full of compiled evergreen resources from 2023, as well as a recap of December Slack conversations:
Looking to later this January:
👉 Constance and I (Sofia) will be visiting San Francisco soon! We’d love to grab coffee if time permits — send us a message in the IAA Slack. We’re also planning to host an in-person meetup. Keep an eye out for the invite in our #r-bay-area channel.
👉 And next week, we’ll be hosting another webinar, Pricing Welfare: Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis. IAA member Andrew Stawasz will presents his new research that illustrates a pathway to accounting for this creating regulatory policy. RSVP to join us on January 19.
Thank you for joining us in this journey to help animals!!
Cheers!
Sofia & Team IAA
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Newsletter sections:
💡 Topics being discussed
📚 Latest research
💼 Jobs
🔥 Opportunities & funding
🎁 Resources
🎉 Upcoming events
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💡 Topics being discussed:
🔎 Reports:
United Nations reports:
An assessment of potential impacts of selected novel alternatives to conventional animal products (UNEP report and Good Food Institute’s summary)
A global assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options from livestock agrifood systems (FAO report and World Federation for Animals’ summary)
Cage-free Tracker Asia and complementary report evaluate 65 companies
Fish Welfare report on electrical stunning system usage among Turkish European seabass and gilthead sea bream producers
Pig Watch 2023 report on corporate commitments to ban gestation crates in the Brazilian pork industry
Safe and Just: The Plant Based Treaty’s Vegan Donut Economics Approach to the Food System
State of animal welfare politics in Germany, a barometer by Animal Society
🥗 Plant-Based Food & 🍗 Cultivated Protein:
Le Cordon Bleu London introduces 2 plant-based culinary arts diplomas
List of universities that have alt -protein programs or courses
Oatly wins legal battle to keep the word ‘milk’ on its packaging — and NotCo challenges dairy allegations in Chilean court (y noticias en español)
U.S. House passes Whole Milk Bill, denying bid to include dairy alternatives
🌍 Animals and Climate:
💪 Animal Advocacy Org and Movement Updates:
Animal Advocacy Careers announces a new Giving for Animals pledge
Environmental & health appeals may be the most effective vegan outreach strategies based on criteria
Introducing Animetrics, a new research organization for animal welfare
Introducing Violet Studios, a new org formed from the Vegan Hacktivists design team
London’s Camden Council committed to fully plant-based catering at internal meetings and events
Sinergia Animal re-released their Cage-free Tacker Asia and complementary report, evaluating 65 companies
Vegan Hacktivists announces Granti, a comprehensive tool designed to streamline the grant management process for both grantees and funders
🎲 Other:
📚 Latest research:
“Cell-Cultured” suggested as universal term for labeling cultivated meat
Discouraging red meat consumption through environmental messaging
Farmed yellow mealworm welfare: species-specific recommendations for a global industry (research summary and published paper)
Intervention report on ballot initiatives to improve broiler welfare in the US
💼 Jobs:
Board of Directors, Thrive Philanthropy. Deadline is February 25.
Board of Directors, Shrimp Welfare Project. Rolling deadline.
Editorial Fellowship, Sentient Media. Deadline is January 15.
Projects Manager, Faunalytics. Deadline is January 31.
Regional Field Organizer, The Humane League. Deadline is January 24.
Science Writer & Editor, Wild Animal Initiative. Deadline is January 15.
Plus, new positions from ProVeg, Albert Schweitzer Foundation, and more are listed on the Tälist, Alt Protein Careers, and Animal Advocacy Careers job boards.
🔥 Opportunities & Funding
Consider presenting your work at a conference or workshop!
Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit: Apply to be speaker, lead workshop, or other activity. Deadline is February 5.
Animal Law Conference: Call for proposals open for 2-3 person speaker presentations. Deadline is March 1.
Economics of Animal Welfare Conference: Call for abstracts. Deadline is January 15.
Intersection of animal & AI workshop: Call for papers. Deadline is February 15.
Lifestyle Medicine conference: Call for proposals. Deadline is March 1.
NYU Wild Animal Welfare Summit: Call for expressions of interest. Deadline is March 1.
Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School: Call for papers. Deadline is February 1.
Vegan Women Summit Hollywood: Nominate a panel or speaker. Deadline is January 26.
Volunteering:
Open Paws is looking for both technical and non-technical volunteers interested in using AI to help animals
Social media volunteer at Plant Futures Fest on February 24. Oakland, CA.
AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator applications are open for the 2024 cohort of foodtech and agtech startups. Deadline is February 2.
Law Lecturers’ Workshop in Animal Rights Law is accepting applications. Hyderabad, India. Deadline is February 23.
Participate in Global Movie Night and host a showing of the Game Changers on February 5
Travel scholarships are open for AVA Summit DC. Deadline February 15.
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🎁 Resources
🎧 Podcasts:
Animal Amicus: 6 episodes on animal issues in criminal law
Animal Law Podcast: The Case of the Ad on the Bus with Matthew Strugar
Future of Foods:
Our Hen House:
The Animal Turn:
The Sustainable Table: Pioneering Cage-free Sourcing in China
📹 Videos (use YouTube video summarizer to get key takeaways!)
Karthik Logic: Nirva Patel on the Ahimsa philosophy, producing films promoting veganism, and animal law at Harvard
The Smell of Money documentary is now available on demand to rent or buy
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment is a new 4 episode docuseries on Netflix
📖 Other:
Cómo Ser Vegan Hoy (How to be vegan today) book for Spanish speakers launched in Chile
New release: The Buddhist and the Ethicist, co-authored by Professor Peter Singer and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, a female Buddhist monastic living in Taiwan
Questions To Use In Survey Research And Experiments, Faunalytics
Plant Based Data, library of peer-reviewed studies, summaries on plant-based food
🎉 Upcoming events
Animal Law 101 for Scientists, GWU Law. January 11.
AI and Animal Advocacy: Revising Strategy & Crafting Policy, hosted by Stray Dog Institute, Farm Forward, and Faunalytics. January 16.
Pricing Welfare: Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis, Impactful Animal Advocacy with Andy Stawasz. January 19.
Global Movie Night, February 5. Virtual.
EAGxLatinAmerica, February 16–18. Ciudad de México, MX.
Plant Futures Fest, February 24. Oakland, US.
EA Global London, May 31–June 2. London, UK.
View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA)’s event list.
Animal advocacy NGOs’ end-of-year recaps and/or 2024 plans:
Thrive Philanthropy’s first annual report, including the 94 grantees
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