Hello!
We are hosting an online community Fireside chat and Q&A with Josh Balk of the Accountability Board on March 28.
Josh will talk about his work in shareholder advocacy, which is one of the latest strategies that bring significant progress for farmed animals — and you can ask him any questions!
Talk to you in a couple weeks! 😊
Sofia & Team IAA
📌Here are a couple research-related updates that we’d like to highlight:
Research And Data As Tools In Advocates’ Decision-Making, Faunalytics
Sources of Information for Animal Advocacy Research, Animal Charity Evaluators
And highlight these great opportunities:
New Roots Institute’s Leadership Academy is accepting applications from high school or college students to join their 8-week virtual program.
Program Coordinator or Program Officer, The Insect Institute. Apply by April 1.
Southeast Asia Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship. Apply by April 7.
(And again, in case you missed it) Animal Charity Evaluators’ Movement Grants applications close by March 17 and Meta Charity Funders close March 24.
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Newsletter sections:
💡 Topics being discussed
📚 Latest research
💼 Jobs
🔥 Opportunities & funding
🎁 Resources
🎉 Upcoming events
⚡️Tips for reading this newsletter:
Chat GPT Writer for AI-generated article summaries
Read Aloud Extension to listen to articles.
💡 Topics being discussed:
📄 Reports
Asia Cage-Free Benchmark Report, Open Wing Alliance. Available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.
Industrial Food Animal Production: How It Works And How We Resist
Taking a Closer Look at an Underresearched Area of the United States
They measured attitudes toward several aspects of farmed animal welfare and found little to no difference between residents of high- and low-agriculture states with respect to these aspects.
The Disinformation Report, The Freedom Food Alliance
🥗 Plant-Based Food & 🍗 Cultivated Protein
Burger King Germany Makes Plant-Based Meals Cheaper Than Meat
German nutrition society Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung (DGE) has updated its dietary guidelines recommending diets should be made up of at least 75% plant-based foods
ProVeg School Plates Awards honors 2 school caterers for the most climate-friendly menus in the UK.
BlueNalu is the 1st cultivated seafood company to join US-based National Fisheries Institute trade association
🌍 Animals and Climate:
⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law
💪 Animal Advocacy Org and Movement Updates:
Animal Charity Evaluators answered many AMA questions about their Movement Grants Program
Vegan activist Raul Vida on the Hungarian Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Raul launched the Csir Kevin Facebook page (283K followers), founded the country's only vegan magazine, Prove.hu, and the 30-day Veganuár challenge.
🎲 Other:
📚 Latest research:
Children's judgments of eating animals are less ‘self-serving’ than adults
Farmed cricket welfare considerations: recommendations for improving global practice and research summary
Plant-based defaults on college campuses: field-experiment in 3 university cafeterias show vegan defaults help lower meat consumption (study here)
Rethink Priorities research briefs on climate:
Why is improving agricultural productivity crucial to ending global hunger and protecting the world’s wildlife? Our World in Data
💼 Jobs:
Corporate Outreach Manager, Food Business, Compassion in World Farming
Freelance Event Organiser, Netherlands, ProVeg
Program Manager, Magnify Mentoring. Apply by April 5.
IT Project Coordinator, Good Food Institute
Law Internship, Brazil, Mercy for Animals
Program Coordinator or Program Officer, The Insect Institute. Apply by April 1.
Senior Research Scientist, University of Arkansas. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing a research strategy for novel protein sources, particularly cell cultivated meats.
Plus, new positions from GFI, impossible Foods, and more are listed on the Animal Advocacy Careers, Tälist, Alt Protein Careers job boards.
🚀AI Comment Generation tool MVP is looking for Beta testers!
IAA has teamed up with Kyle Behrend of NFPS.ai to explore building an AI-powered tool that generates pro-animal comments for online articles and videos. Feel free to create an account, explore the tool, and provide us feedback as a comment on this Slack thread or reply to this email.
🔥 Opportunities & Funding
Animal Charity Evaluators’ Movement Grants applications close by March 17.
Asia-Pacific (APAC) food tech startups are invited to apply for the latest round of its First Bite funding scheme, led by Singapore-based VC firm Better Bite Ventures. Apply by March 20.
Conference on Animal Rights Europe (CARE) is accepting speaker proposals. Deadline is March 24.
Meta Charity Funders is launching the 2nd round: apply for funding or join as a funder
Non-Trivial Fellowship. Summer program for teenagers to start solving the world’s most pressing problems with $500 scholarship. Apply by March 31.
People Skills for Animal People Leadership Skills Program. Apply by March 29.
Pro-Animal Future is looking for volunteers to help write letters to residents in Denver, CO, US.
Strategic Planning for Animal Activism Course. Apply by March 31.
Summer Immersion on Innovative Approaches in Science. Free 3-day program to advance science ethically using nonanimal methods for research and testing. Apply by March 15.
Thrive Philanthropy announced a new multi-donor pooled Food Systems Fund. They are also recruiting for members to join the Asia, Africa, and LATAM Funding Steering Committees.
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🎁 Resources
🎧 Podcasts:
Animal Justice Academy: The Plant-Based by Default Strategy - Katie Cantrell
Animal Law Podcast: Breaking the Rules?: Taxpayer-Funded Animal Research Outside the US
Future of Foods: Investing ethically and without harm to animals - Claire Smith from Beyond Investing
How I Learned to Love Shrimp: Jayasimha Nuggehalli on working collaboratively with the animal agriculture industry to help animals
Moral Mayhem: Animal Welfare and Moral Weight with Bob Fischer
📹 Videos (use YouTube video summarizer to get key takeaways!)
AfA Connect, playlist of 7 videos from the conference.
Dining on Despair, a documentary produced by Green REV Institute
If you could take a simple action to save animals from suffering, would you? - an adaptation of Peter Singer’s “drowning child experiment”.
Animal law-related content:
UIA ALC International Comparative Farmed Animal Law Round Table on India, Nigeria and United States
Animal Law Conference 2023's videos were just made public. Here's the full playlist.
Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law has been releasing recordings from their Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series.
GW Animal Law Program released a Careers in Animal Law video.
📖 Other:
Privilege and Inclusivity in the Vegan Movement, a new online course by the Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy.
🎉 Upcoming events
Cell Ag UK Student Conference. Virtual March 12.
AI For Non Profits webinar: Explore how artificial intelligence can be a force for good within your nonprofit, March 13 and 14.
Food 4 Thought Festival, April 12–14.
Vegan and Animal Rights Conference (VARC), April 12–14. Manchester, UK.
Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit, May 16–19. Washington, D.C.
EA Global London, May 31–June 2. London, UK.
View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA)’s event list and Animal Rights Calendar.
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