Note: I don’t know so much about this, so this is a real hot take/shot fired without huge confidence ;).
I’m a super practical person who likes to move 1 step at a time, and I want to see a couple of clear practical wins caused by the WAW movement before more funding goes to WAW.
In my opinion the initial WAW research phase has been long enough to start doing, and at least half of that 10 million dollars a year should be going into getting 1 or 2 wins based on the great research that has been done already. Pick a decently tractable, big welfare gain, least ecological harm intervention and get it done in the easiest place to do it. Then measure then the effects carefully and consider scale up from there. if it doesn’t work try something else.
Then when there’s a practical scalable playbook like we have seen with corporate campaigns for battery hens and impressively fast for shrimp stunning, then the big bucks can flow in.
Note: I don’t know so much about this, so this is a real hot take/shot fired without huge confidence ;).
I’m a super practical person who likes to move 1 step at a time, and I want to see a couple of clear practical wins caused by the WAW movement before more funding goes to WAW.
In my opinion the initial WAW research phase has been long enough to start doing, and at least half of that 10 million dollars a year should be going into getting 1 or 2 wins based on the great research that has been done already. Pick a decently tractable, big welfare gain, least ecological harm intervention and get it done in the easiest place to do it. Then measure then the effects carefully and consider scale up from there. if it doesn’t work try something else.
Then when there’s a practical scalable playbook like we have seen with corporate campaigns for battery hens and impressively fast for shrimp stunning, then the big bucks can flow in.