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
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ACE Interviews: Carrie Freeman
We recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Carrie Freeman about effective communication strategies for animal rights advocacy. Her most recent publication, Framing Farming, examines a fundamental question in the AR movement: should we construct farming campaign messages based more on utility or ideology? … Read more
Strategic Plans and Prospective Goals
As strategy is particularly important to the success of any organization, we spend considerable time internally discussing our plans for the future. Last month we updated our strategic plan from 2014 and replaced it with our three-year plan for 2015-2017. Our new plan features updated sections on our philosophy and our objectives, … Read more
Things That Surprised Us About the December 2014 Review Process
We’ve written elsewhere about our general and December 2014 review processes, with the goal of helping readers understand what we did to arrive at our recommendations. Here, I’d like to discuss in greater detail some of the surprises we encountered during our December 2014 organization review process. … Read more
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