“Reservations about donating for animal welfare charities” by Peleg Shilo

tl;dr: I'm having a hard time convincing myself that any of the top animal welfare charities are really as effective as I want them to be, and I'm seeking feedback on my thought process as I figure out where to donate in my first time. I've been interested in effective altruism for years, and I'm finally in a place where I can start donating considerable sums of money. I'm interested in both global health & development and animal welfare. I'm not interested in longtermism. That's a long topic for another day. While I feel like I understand global health & development pretty well and I've made up my mind to donate to Givewell's Top Charities fund, I have a lot of open questions about animal welfare, and I'd like some help in thinking through these topics. In this post, I will explain where I currently am in my thought [...] ---Outline:(02:07) Corporate Outreach(05:00) Advocacy for Plant-based diets(07:38) The Rest(07:41) Faunalytics(08:01) Legal Impact for Chickens(08:33) Wild Animals Initiative--- First published: December 23rd, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PHzqiH3ohskuCaTbM/reservations-about-donating-for-animal-welfare-charities --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.