Thanks for this great analysis Lewis and Emma! I am curious if cage-free enforcement campaigns will continue to be a funding priority for OP after the 2025 deadlines and how it compares to other interventions like the ones given in this recent post, Systems Change 101.
I think this is a good quote from that post:
In animal welfare, cage-free campaigns help millions of animals but don’t necessarily address the economic incentives and cultural narratives that will lead to future animal suffering.
While I do think that cage-free has led to some major improvements in economic incentives (though not enough because otherwise companies and states wouldn’t be as resistant to fulfilling the commitments) and cultural narratives (“cage-free” for eggs is as recognizable as “cruelty-free” for animal testing), I suspect there may be diminishing marginal returns in terms of cost-effectiveness (people already know what “cage-free” is and the companies that were easy to convince have already been campaigned against).
Thanks for this great analysis Lewis and Emma! I am curious if cage-free enforcement campaigns will continue to be a funding priority for OP after the 2025 deadlines and how it compares to other interventions like the ones given in this recent post, Systems Change 101.
I think this is a good quote from that post:
While I do think that cage-free has led to some major improvements in economic incentives (though not enough because otherwise companies and states wouldn’t be as resistant to fulfilling the commitments) and cultural narratives (“cage-free” for eggs is as recognizable as “cruelty-free” for animal testing), I suspect there may be diminishing marginal returns in terms of cost-effectiveness (people already know what “cage-free” is and the companies that were easy to convince have already been campaigned against).