The following blog post is an opinion piece written by ACE’s Executive Director, Jon Bockman. It is not meant to convey ACE’s official stance on these issues. For a Spanish translation of this post, please see ¿Bienestaristas o abolicionistas? Por qué la división perjudica a los animales. … Read more
Guest Blog
Why Digital Sentience is Relevant to Animal Activists
Guest post by Brian Tomasik
Summary
When aiming to reduce animal suffering, we often focus on the short-term, tangible impacts of our work, but longer-term spillover effects on the far future are also very relevant in expectation. As machine intelligence becomes increasingly dominant in coming decades and centuries, … Read more
Why the Situation of Animals in the Wild Should Concern Us
Guest post by Oscar Horta
According to a view that is widespread today, animals in nature live joyful lives, at least as long as we leave them alone. This view determines what many people think we should do if we care about animals living in nature. … Read more
Speciesism and Human Rights
Each year, Blog Action Day organizes bloggers across the world to write on a single topic to raise awareness of an important issue that impacts us all. Last year, the topic was on The Power of We, for which I wrote a short post on how effective altruism magnifies our power to accomplish good. … Read more
Top Animal Charities and Climate Change
Guest post by Ben West
I argue that EAA’s [now Animal Charity Evaluators] Top Charities are not only efficient at preventing the suffering of animals on farms, but also good candidates among the best charities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate change presents a difficult challenge, … Read more