1 - The animal movement has grown a lot, but that doesn’t mean it has grown enough. I think about this in the same way I think about efforts to eradicate extreme poverty: Such poverty has diminished significantly over the past few decades, but it still probably needs more (and cleverer) allocation of resources to truly be eradicated. Animal welfare, IMO, is in a much earlier stage still (but that’s not to say we haven’t made progress!).
2 - Various orgs do offer student internships (which is great), but I don’t think this is at all sufficient to build the much larger movement of active NGO staffers, donors, etc. that we need. As discussed above, I also think there aren’t enough in-person opportunities, and that that is a problem.
Thanks for your comment. A few points/pushback:
1 - The animal movement has grown a lot, but that doesn’t mean it has grown enough. I think about this in the same way I think about efforts to eradicate extreme poverty: Such poverty has diminished significantly over the past few decades, but it still probably needs more (and cleverer) allocation of resources to truly be eradicated. Animal welfare, IMO, is in a much earlier stage still (but that’s not to say we haven’t made progress!).
2 - Various orgs do offer student internships (which is great), but I don’t think this is at all sufficient to build the much larger movement of active NGO staffers, donors, etc. that we need. As discussed above, I also think there aren’t enough in-person opportunities, and that that is a problem.