👋Hi there, welcome to this edition of the IAA newsletter!
💥It’s our official 1-year anniversary🎂 (I can’t believe that I sent the first newsletter on 13th June last year!🤯) To celebrate, we’ve rebranded! Thanks for the kind help of the wonderful Vegan Hacktivists we have a new logo for this newsletter, the website the Slack space 😍🙏
⚡️Top tips for reading this newsletter:
use Summarize Chrome Extention (free). It will give you a Chat GPT-generated quick summary for each article to see if it’s worth reading in detail.
You can also use a free extension Wordtune to see the main points of the video/article on the side of the screen
👂You can also use Read Aloud extension to listen to articles.
💡Topics being discussed:
Upside Foods, Eat Just Earn USDA Label Approval for Cultivated Meat: ‘A Major Step Forward’
OECD makes historic move: animal welfare incorporated into multinational business guidelines
Updates To Our Charity Evaluations Criteria In 2023 by Animal Charity Evaluators
The Common Sense View on Meat Implies Some Pretty Radical Conclusions
Announcing the Publication of Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer and Review of Animal Liberation Now
Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes
Do you think decreasing the consumption of animals is good/bad? Think again?
Why Africa Needs a Cage Free Model Farm and Producer’s Directory
Capitalizing on Its Diversity: DC Veg Week Showcases More Than Just Tofu
World Oceans Day: Why is Aquatic Animal Welfare Crucial in Ocean Conservation Strategies?
Vegfest Nigeria 2023: Stakeholders conference on food system
📕Latest research:
Animal Agriculture Is The Missing Piece In Climate Change Media Coverage
Cognitive enrichment to increase fish welfare in aquaculture: A review
Plant-Based Dairy Alternatives—A Future Direction to the Milky Way
❤️️Community profile: Thrive Philanthropy
Thrive Philanthropy is a global grantmaking firm that amplifies just food systems and accelerates alternatives to industrial animal agriculture by strengthening frontline organizations and by connecting high-impact donors with food justice advocates across the world. Next deadline for grant submission: 1st September. Check out their Thrive Africa project for African groups.
💼Jobs:
Learning and Digital Manager role at Animal Advocacy Careers (deadline 2nd July)
Farmed Animal Well-Being Lead at Builders Vision (rolling)
Wild Animal Initiative is hiring for Executive Assistant, deadline is June 5th
Shrimp Welfare Project is hiring for Head of Programmes deadline is June 30th
For more jobs like this, please visit Animal Advocacy Careers’ job board, Talist job board for alt protein, GFI Alt Protein database, and the 80,000 Hours job board (with a filter for farmed animals).
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:
💸Funding
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.
👩💻What’s happening in our Slack space
We’ve hit 700 members🎉 - join them here if you haven’t already
new channels:
#ai-projects - where we brainstorm together what projects we can start on the ai/animal welfare intersection
#ai-productivity - where we learn how to use AI for the animals together
#parents - for parents in the movement
#africa - for African countries
#1-1-virtual-coffee-meetings - online call matches with community members (shout out to our partner Donut) - we matched 35 people in the last round and the current round went out to 50 people. The next round is on 28th June, please join the Slack space and the virtual coffee channel to be matched.
🎁Resources:
Podcasts🎧:
Videos📹 (top tip - use apps like YouTube video summariser and Wordtune Chrome extension to get the key points from the videos in less time!)
Peter Singer on Artificial Intelligence, Speciesism & the Future
Recording from the AI and ChatGPT in the Movement and summary on our Slack space
Conference talks on animal welfare and adjacent
Longtermism and alternative proteins | Bruce Friedrich | EAG London 23
Caged hen campaigns in Europe | Kirsty Henderson, Sean Gifford, Sophie de Jonckheere | EAG London 23
Charity evaluation and its future | GiveWell, ACE, Founders Pledge, GWWC | EAG London 23
Farmed Fish Welfare in India Lessons in Impact and Scalability | Karthik Pulugurtha | EAGxIndia 2023
How to compare welfare across species | Bob Fischer | EAG Bay Area 23
Reducing animal suffering in countries of the Global South | Carolina Galvani | EAG Bay Area 23
Meta: Workshop: Improve your decision-making | Spencer Greenberg | EAG Bay Area 23
Meta: Workshop: Impostor syndrome | Kat Woods | EAG Bay Area 23
Other:
Faunalytics’ newest Fundamental looks at the vast world of invertebrates
The Night Sky Garden: grief care, supports, and guidance for animal advocates
Free online "Introduction to plant-based campaigns" course produced by Anima International.
Voting Methods for Group Decisions by Animal Charity Evaluators
Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities
How we drove 199% organic traffic growth to our job board in 6 months
Lessons from the Frontlines: The most important insights from two decades of open rescue.
Check out earlier editions of this newsletter here, I rarely repeat the material and older articles may still be of interest.
🎉Upcoming events:
Food for Thought - How can we reshape our food systems for a sustainable future? Online, 20 June
Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit, 27-30 July, Los Angeles (program is live, book your room asap).
Asia Farm Animal Day, October 8-10, organized by the AVA Summit and Asia for Animals, registration open! Be sure to apply by July 15th for a Travel Scholarship, and register to attend by July 1st to get the Early Bird rate.
Connect For Animals has a great website to view a comprehensive list of animal advocacy and vegan events, including many online events.
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