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Newsletter sections:
💡 Topics being discussed
📚 Latest research
💼 Jobs
👩💻 IAA updates
🔥 Opportunities & funding
🎁 Resources
🎉 Upcoming events
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💡 Topics being discussed:
🔎 Reports:
Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum 2023 Summary, report by Rethink Priorities
Deceptive U.S. consumer labels report by Animal Welfare Institute, and Faunalytics analysis
Report on EU’s long-distance trade in farm animals (& Guardian article)
🥗 Plant-Based Food & 🍗 Cultivated Protein:
1st EU certification for cell-cultivated pet food by Bene Meac
Case study on Quorn and how public-private partnerships can help alternative proteins
Government investments: Germany announces €38M for the transition to plant-based, fermented and cell-cultivated proteins — while the U.S.’s $195.9M investment for ag projects lack sustainability focus.
Italy bans cultured meat to protect culinary heritage & livestock industry
State of Global Fermentation Report, a Synonym analysis on fermentation industry trends, profitability drivers and margins, gaps, and more
🌍 Animals and Climate:
A review of contraception methods for wild mammals, Animal Ethics
New field study on house sparrows launched by Wild Animal Initiative
Scientific declaration on insect sentience and welfare signed by 37 experts
Singapore-based Insectta aims to use black soldier flies in biotech sector
The global seafood industry, China’s maritime empire, and the resulting human rights concerns: a New York Times investigation
Updated water quality data from ~100 farms in India from June 2021-2023, Fish Welfare Initiative
💪 Animal Advocacy Org and Movement Updates:
DefaultVeg universities campaign launched by Better Food Foundation
Material Innovation Initiative released an Innovator Database of 148 companies who are making next-gen, animal-free materials
Wayne Hsiung on what went wrong in the Sonoma Trial & posts from jail
🎲 Other:
Activism by Generation Vegan lands them a spot on the Earthshot Prize Nominations Team and two experts to join an advisory panel
In memory: Karen Davis, animal-rights activist who led campaigns for birds
Takeaways from Beakbook’s ‘Agriculture’s AI Revolution’ webinar (detailed notes here)
What could AI mean for animals? by Lewis Bollard
🦃As the seasons change, Bird Flu is back is surging in some global areas.
How the current bird flu strain (H5N1) evolved to be so deadly, Nature
The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method (ventilation shutdown+) to stop bird flu, Vox
Putting birds aside for a minute, the 1st human case of a swine flu strain was detected in the UK. This as a reminder how animal welfare crosses over with other concerns, including global health and pandemics.
📚 Latest research:
ACE’s latest Empirical Research in Farmed Animal Advocacy newsletter
Consumers’ meat commitment and the importance of animal welfare as agricultural policy goal
Eurobarometer on attitudes of Europeans towards animal welfare & press release with highlights from Eurogroup for Animals
Extending Perspective Taking to Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Entities
Roundup of 7 plant-based nutrition studies from November 2023
Why measuring the effectiveness of nonviolent grassroots activism requires specificity
💼 Jobs:
Board of Directors, Shrimp Welfare Project. Rolling deadline.
Director of Programs and Senior Director of Development, Farmed Animal Funders. Deadline to apply is December 8.
Program Associate, Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship, Welfare Matters.
Plus, new positions from Animal Ask, Good Food Institute, and more are listed on the Tälist and Animal Advocacy Careers job boards.
🚀 Impactful Animal Advocacy (IAA) updates!
⭐️ We just released a digest with the best Slack conversations and resources from November. Not yet in the Slack? Sign up to join the community.
IAA participated in the EA Forum’s Marginal Funding Week to share our strategy, updates on projects, and how we would use additional funding. We even shared stories of impact from our community members, like you.😊
Growth stats:
Slack: We have 1,600+ members and are now using an application form.
Newsletter: We have reached our 1,000 newsletter subscriber milestone — then passed it!
Funding: We have received our first donations using the new form. Those of you that donated, we appreciate you!
🩷With end of year approaching, we hope that you consider supporting our work. We have several services that we think are worthwhile to expand, but that is dependent on funding. Any donations we receive will determine what we focus on in 2024.
🔥 Opportunities & Funding
We have created a new Fundraising Wiki for new projects in animal advocacy and added an updated list of funding opportunities
The Brooks Institute Scholars Research Fellowship applications are due November 30.
Research Support is available from Animal Ask. Application deadline is December 1.
Wild Animal Initiative Challenge Grants are accepting expressions of interest. Deadline is December 1.
Call for abstracts on the economics of animal welfare due January 15.
Food Animal Concerns Trust is accepting applications for their Fund-a-Farmer Grants to independent farmers in the U.S. Deadline January 15.
Travel scholarships are open for AVA Summit DC. Deadline February 15.
Spreadsheet of animal ag conferences. Food Systems Innovations may be able to cover the costs if you want to attend a conference — contact us for info & to get connected: info@impactfulanimaladvocacy.org.
Volunteer with Animal Empathy Philippines. AEP also has an Opportunities Board to connect Filipino advocates to paid & volunteer opportunities.
🎁 Resources
🎧 Podcasts:
How I Learned to Love Shrimp:
Future of Foods: Cultivated Mouse Meat for Cats and Dogs
📹 Videos (use YouTube video summarizer to get key takeaways!)
Did you miss a conference? Here are recent ones:
EA Global Boston — Our favorite is Cynthis Schuck’s presentation on quantifying animal suffering
Fauna Connections 2023, playlist from Faunalytics’ remote symposium
Reducetarian Summit 2023, scroll down to view the 21 session recordings
Karthik Logic: Insect sentience research and insect protection legislation
Why Did Six Million Brits Sign Up To Veganuary? The Veganuary origin story
Animal Justice Academy:
Dealing with the Challenges of Being an Animal Advocate with Kimberly Carroll
Ways to Use AI in Your Animal Advocacy with Tom Conger
Infighting in the Animal Advocacy Movement with Dr. Melanie Joy
📖 Other:
Abraham Rowe, COO at Rethink Priorities and Wild Animal Initiative co-founder, started an Invertebrate Welfare substack. Here is the October edition.
Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research (CEEALAR and formerly EA Hotel) is a nonprofit based in Blackpool, UK, provides subsidized accommodation and coworking. More info in their brochure.
ChatGPT Plus subscriber can access new AI chatbots, including EVE - Your Vegan Coach, VEG3 vegan assistant, or a vegan chef.
💰Many animal orgs participated in the EA Forum’s Marginal Funding Week and shared how they would use extra funding:
Impactful Animal Advocacy (this is us🥰)
Rethink Priorities (see page 23)
🎉 Upcoming events
Insights Unveiled: Germany’s Animal Politics in Focus, December 11.
Welfare Footprint Workshop, December 13.
View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA)’ event list. CFA has a few new updates: User profiles are now available for the US and Canada. CFA accounts are now invite-only for the time being (here’s an invite!)
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