EA - Animal Advocacy Digest #4: Dec 24th- Jan 20th by James Ozden

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Animal Advocacy Digest #4: Dec 24th- Jan 20th, published by James Ozden on January 20, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Note: This digest will be once per month now, as EA Forum animal content isn’t as frequent as we expected!Welcome to this edition of the Animal Advocacy Digest, where we aim to help people in the animal welfare community quickly keep up with the most important information in the space. As a reminder, you can get this digest as an email by signing up here. =I’m summarising the following posts:Video: A Few Exciting Giving Opportunities for Animal Welfare in Asia - Jack Stennett, Jah Ying Chung (Good Growth)Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland - Jakub Stencel, Weronika Zurek (Anima International)Don’t Balk at Animal-friendly Results - Bob Fischer (Rethink Priorities)Longtermism and Animal Farming Trajectories - Michael Dello (Sentience Institute)Abolitionist in the Streets, Pragmatist in the Sheets: New Ideas for Effective Animal Advocacy - Dhruv MakwanaQuick links:Linkpost: Big Wins for Farm Animals This Decade (Lewis Bollard)Video: A Few Exciting Giving Opportunities for Animal Welfare in Asia - Jack Stennett, Jah Ying Chung (Good Growth)Good Growth is an Effective Altruist-aligned organisation focusing on animal welfare and food systems in Asia. They focus on growing the animal advocacy ecosystem in Asia, by conducting research prioritisation on key topics within Asian animal advocacy, developing accessible databases on the alternative protein market in Asian countries, as well as building the research capacity of Asian animal advocacy organisations.In this video, Good Growth highlights five organisations (including themselves) who might be exciting donation opportunities for those interested in supporting Asian animal advocacy. They are:Green Camel Bell, who are working to end the farming of wild animals, such as Giant Salamanders, in ChinaSinergia Animals, who are currently working on cage-free eggs advocacy, institutional outreach for plant-based meals, and investigations in ThailandAnimal Alliance Asia, who are working on a regranting programme for international funders to reach local advocates in AsiaAnimal Empathy Philippines who are working on capacity-building initiatives to grow the farm animal welfare movement in the Philippines.Why might you donate to Asian animal advocacy opportunities? Good Growth has made this handy graphic below which might provide some insight!Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland - Jakub Stencel, Weronika Zurek (Anima International)Anima International recently took the (brave!) decision recently to suspend their campaign which focuses on ending the live sale of carp in Poland. This campaign was specifically against the purchasing of live carp around Christmas time, a tradition in some post-communist countries in East Europe. Animal advocacy groups had achieved significant wins with this campaign, leading to major retailers withdrawing from the sale of live fish.However, Anima International became worried about the consumer trend to replace carp with other fish, such as salmon. As salmon is a carnivorous fish (and carp mostly isn’t), Anima International was increasingly concerned this campaign could actually be leading to more animal deaths, as salmon farming often requires fish feed. Anima calculates that buying one Atlantic Salmon requires around 11 times more fish deaths than buying the same weight in common carp, due to considerations around weight, mortality rates and number of feed fish required to bring these animals to sale weight. As a result, Anima International took the difficult decision to suspend this long standing campaign, in light of potential negative impacts on fish.Longtermism and Animal ...