Sorry I never replied but here’s a very quick thing on what I thought our main disagreement was but maybe we’re closer than I initially thought! I interpreted your conclusion to be something along the lines of “We shouldn’t do any divestment as other approaches are less risky and more effective” but your final paragraph above is basically the view I hold too:
I do think there should be people trying divestment in the animal advocacy context and seeing how it goes, but unless the results proved us wrong, based on the arguments in this report, I wouldn’t recommend a big shift of resources towards it.
Basically I totally agree, in that we should a couple campaigns/organisations trying divestment in a somewhat rigorous way to get some good learnings out of it, before deciding whether to stop it completely or scale up. I just think when I read your sentence:
We think that, given the existing evidence, many existing animal advocacy campaigns will be more effective and less risky than divestment.
I interpreted this as we shouldn’t do it or invest in it at all! Not sure if it’s just me but I think adding what you said above “some people should try it with some limited resources to test it properly” to the conclusion would really help with understanding your final recommendation. Thanks for all your work on this again—super interesting!
Sorry I never replied but here’s a very quick thing on what I thought our main disagreement was but maybe we’re closer than I initially thought! I interpreted your conclusion to be something along the lines of “We shouldn’t do any divestment as other approaches are less risky and more effective” but your final paragraph above is basically the view I hold too:
Basically I totally agree, in that we should a couple campaigns/organisations trying divestment in a somewhat rigorous way to get some good learnings out of it, before deciding whether to stop it completely or scale up. I just think when I read your sentence:
I interpreted this as we shouldn’t do it or invest in it at all! Not sure if it’s just me but I think adding what you said above “some people should try it with some limited resources to test it properly” to the conclusion would really help with understanding your final recommendation. Thanks for all your work on this again—super interesting!