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Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals project summarizes research on animal advocacy interventions. This spotlight reviews veg*n pledges, finding that evidence for sustained diet change is limited. The intervention may be particularly effective for individuals already motivated to change. … Read more

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Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals project summarizes research on animal advocacy interventions. Our first spotlight reviews corporate outreach campaigns, which show strong, though context-dependent, evidence of improving farmed animal welfare. … Read more

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ACE is launching “Better for Animals,” a new resource synthesizing the latest evidence on almost 30 different animal advocacy interventions. This living document helps advocates, funders, and researchers navigate the evidence landscape and make more informed decisions to create a bigger impact for animals. … Read more

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At Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE), we’re always looking for ways to increase our impact in fulfilling our goal of helping more people help animals. One of the ways we’re doing this is by expanding our reach to new audiences. We launched a two-month marketing campaign aimed at engaging an audience we call “New Animal Protectors.” This audience consists of people who have compassion for animals and already donate to animal protection efforts, … Read more

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Read the latest updates to our charity evaluation criteria, including our Impact, Room for More Funding, and Organizational Health assessments. … Read more

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This is a list of all farmed animal advocacy organizations around the world that we are aware of, collated from existing directories such as the World Federation for Animals Directory. … Read more

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In our Roundtable blog series, we ask a handful of contributors to provide their points of view on complex topics or unsettled questions. We hope that this approach will help us to integrate and learn from multiple perspectives on animal advocacy.In our Roundtable blog series, we ask a handful of contributors to provide their points of view on complex topics or unsettled questions. We hope that this approach will help us to integrate and learn from multiple perspectives on animal advocacy. … Read more

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We have received some questions about our November 2020 recommendation of Wild Animal Initiative as a Top Charity, which stem from the fact that historically, we have only granted that status to charities that primarily work on farmed animal issues. We hope that this post will address any confusion about our decision. … Read more

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Our Animal Advocacy Research Fund has helped us to identify and support impactful research on how we can help animals effectively. This post highlights how our grants have helped researchers to carry out their important work. We are pleased to share some of their achievements with you. … Read more

by and - 7 minute readCross-posted to Effective Altruism Forum

Interventions aimed at advancing the goals of a particular social movement can affect other social movements in different ways. When it comes to interventions aimed at transforming animal agriculture systems and influencing dietary changes, promoting silvopastoral systems and plant-based diets might help build alliances between the farmed animal advocacy and environmental movements. … Read more

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In order to get insight into the compensation systems of organizations similar to ACE, we conducted an exploratory survey targeting charities within the effective altruism (EA) and animal advocacy movements. Our findings our included in this post. … Read more

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The issue of wild animal suffering has been highly neglected by society at large, including the scientific community. In this post Maria Salazar argues that fostering the formation of welfare biology as an academic field could be a promising strategy to help wild animals. She explores the potential benefits and challenges of creating this new academic discipline.  … Read more

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In order to reduce animal suffering in India, it’s necessary for the global effective animal advocacy (EAA) community to understand the local context, considering at once the political, economic, and cultural factors that could lead to challenges and opportunities for EAA. Prior to this research, ACE’s understanding of India’s local context was relatively limited—this report outlines our findings, as well as important questions for further consideration.  … Read more

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With over 1.6 billion farmed land animals kept in Brazil in 2016, these animals account for the vast majority of human-caused suffering endured by animals in Brazil, and yet they are under-represented in advocacy efforts. Due to the vast number of animals farmed for food and other products in Brazil, the potential impact of advocacy on their behalf is significant. … Read more

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Farmed fish welfare should plausibly be one of the effective animal advocacy community’s priorities because of the current neglectedness of the issue, the likelihood that farmed fish suffering is large in scale, and the potential tractability of interventions to improve farmed fish welfare. With this in mind, ACE would like to reduce uncertainty about the impact of corporate campaigns aimed at improving farmed fish welfare. We hope that our new report will help us move toward that goal.  … Read more