An update/discovery I’ve made after skimming the whole book: It’s actually mostly/all about farmed animal welfare and how people in the farmed animal advocacy space think EAs working on farmed animal welfare are skrewing up the movement. I’m pretty disappointed because I was hoping there would be substantive critiques of EA as a framework (which I don’t think I was wrong to assume? The only thing about the book which suggests that its about farmed animals is the cow on the cover—there is no mention of the specific focus in the blurb or in the foreword or subtitle.)
Based on this realization, am I right to assume you are no longer interested in coordinating this book club?
*I* am still interested in doing it but I thought it’d be good to let people know in case they wanted to change their mind about participating.
Do you still think it is worthwhile given the skim?
I think although you might not gain any insight into specific critiques of the EA framework from reading it, it is probably still good to get a sense of the different types of critiques people have of EA in this specific domain (which many/most EAs don’t have a detailed understanding of). I think I’m also hopeful that there are some broadly applicable critiques which might still apply across other cause areas we work in.
Based on this realization, am I right to assume you are no longer interested in coordinating this book club?
I came to the same realization after discussing it with a few members of our local group, but given my interests in animal advocacy, I think it’d be personally valuable for me to engage with.
An update/discovery I’ve made after skimming the whole book: It’s actually mostly/all about farmed animal welfare and how people in the farmed animal advocacy space think EAs working on farmed animal welfare are skrewing up the movement. I’m pretty disappointed because I was hoping there would be substantive critiques of EA as a framework (which I don’t think I was wrong to assume? The only thing about the book which suggests that its about farmed animals is the cow on the cover—there is no mention of the specific focus in the blurb or in the foreword or subtitle.)
*I* am still interested in doing it but I thought it’d be good to let people know in case they wanted to change their mind about participating.
I think although you might not gain any insight into specific critiques of the EA framework from reading it, it is probably still good to get a sense of the different types of critiques people have of EA in this specific domain (which many/most EAs don’t have a detailed understanding of). I think I’m also hopeful that there are some broadly applicable critiques which might still apply across other cause areas we work in.
Really appreciate the reasoning transparency here!
Based on this realization, am I right to assume you are no longer interested in coordinating this book club?
I came to the same realization after discussing it with a few members of our local group, but given my interests in animal advocacy, I think it’d be personally valuable for me to engage with.
Do you still think it is worthwhile given the skim?