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This is: Effective Animal Advocacy Resources, published by saulius on the effective altruism forum.
This article contains a list of research organizations, newsletters, research libraries, personal blogs, conferences, podcasts, funds, notable written works and other links associated with Effective Animal Advocacy (EAA) movement. The list is biased because I only included resources that I know of. If you think something is missing, please comment.
Introductory materials
Animal Welfare (article from effectivealtruism.org)
Plant and cell based meat (6 min TED talk)
Farm Animal Funders briefings (targeted at big funders)
Research organizations
Here is a list of organizations and departments that publish animal advocacy strategy research:
Animal Advocacy Careers - “researching career trajectories and addressing talent constraints in the animal movement”.
Animal Ask - founded with the express aim to optimise and prioritise future asks to assist animal advocacy organisations in their efforts to reduce farmed animal suffering. We provide organisations with in-depth research, narrowly targeted at key decisions between different animal asks, supporting organisations, individual activists, policymakers and donors so that they may do more good in the long term.
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) - charity reviews, intervention reviews, general research, advocacy advice, interviews, and more.
Animal Ethics - resources on ethics, sentience, animal exploitation and wild animal suffering.
Charity Entrepreneurship - a research and training program aimed at creating multiple high-impact charities. A lot of their 2019 research was about what new animal-focused charities would be the most impactful.
CIWF research, CIWF USA research
Faunalytics - original research focusing on farmed animal and movement-building topics, a library of lay-friendly summaries of academic research, and one-on-one support for advocates who want help finding data or designing or understanding research.
fishcount - estimates of wild-caught and farmed fish numbers, discussion of fish welfare issues.
Fish Welfare Initiative - will do research about welfare reforms for fish in the next 5 months.
MFA research - evaluations to optimize various advocacy strategies.
OpenPhil - the largest funder in farm animal advocacy (~$35 million per year), shares some of its internal research.
Rethink Priorities - animal-related research so far focused on neglected groups of animals, corporate campaigns, and wild animal welfare.
Sentience Institute - meta-level research for the EAA community.
THL Labs - “informing advocacy strategies through actionable research on their effectiveness”.
Wild Animal Initiative - “working to understand and improve the lives of animals in the wild.” Previously, it was two organizations: Utility Farm and Wild-Animal Suffering Research. Some of the texts are only available on the websites of these defunct organizations. They merged in 2019.
In total, there seem to be about 35 full time researcher equivalents in animal advocacy research space. Note that I excluded organizations like Asia Research and Engagement (ARE), Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR), Centre for Animal Welfare Science Excellence and Animal Welfare Foundation that do or fund animal welfare related research that is not directly about advocacy strategy. I also excluded clean meat research.
For incomplete lists of animal advocacy organizations in general see all ACE’s charity reviews and a list of OWA organizations.
Newsletters
Main newsletters:
But Can They Suffer - monthly summaries of the most relevant new EAA research. The last three newsletters can be seen here.
OpenPhil Farm Animal Welfare Newsletter - original content by OpePhil. All previous newsletters are available in the archive.
THL Labs newsletter - updates include monthly summari...
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