Correct: Effective Animal Advocacy, probably a bit too intra-group jargon to not define or at least link to an explanation. ACE was originally called Effective Animal Activism.
To expand slightly: As JJ Balisan notes, ACE was originally called ‘Effective Animal Activism’, and that’s how the acronym ‘EAA’ was first used in EA circles (if I recall correctly). Over time, people started using ‘EAA’ to refer to ‘effective animal activism’ instead, i.e. not the organization itself but any efforts within EA to engage in activism on behalf of non-human animals. Eventually, the term was applied more broadly, to refer to ways of helping animals beyond activism in a narrow sense, and accordingly the ‘EAA’ acronym acquired the new meaning of ‘effective animal advocacy’. I think currently ‘EAA’ just means “the branch of effective altruism primarily concerned with animal welfare”.
What is EAA? Effective Animal Advocacy?
I interpret it as ‘the subgroup of the Effective Altruist movement predominantly focused on animal welfare’
Correct: Effective Animal Advocacy, probably a bit too intra-group jargon to not define or at least link to an explanation. ACE was originally called Effective Animal Activism.
To expand slightly: As JJ Balisan notes, ACE was originally called ‘Effective Animal Activism’, and that’s how the acronym ‘EAA’ was first used in EA circles (if I recall correctly). Over time, people started using ‘EAA’ to refer to ‘effective animal activism’ instead, i.e. not the organization itself but any efforts within EA to engage in activism on behalf of non-human animals. Eventually, the term was applied more broadly, to refer to ways of helping animals beyond activism in a narrow sense, and accordingly the ‘EAA’ acronym acquired the new meaning of ‘effective animal advocacy’. I think currently ‘EAA’ just means “the branch of effective altruism primarily concerned with animal welfare”.