I know this might be a bit of a strange question, but does anyone have thoughts on how tractable work to prevent suffering on factory farms (and/or work to prevent the suffering of wild animals, for that matter) would be if we restrict ourselves to non-mandatory interventions? Like, for example, reaching out to corporations to ask them to, voluntarily, start treating their animals more humanely, or encouraging consumers to only buy humanely-raised meat; but not advocating for laws requiring factory farms to treat their animals humanely. Or do you know of resources where I could get that information?
Thank you! Any information is appreciated.
from the perspective of the African landscape there is good work done by the animal advocacy Africa
https://www.animaladvocacyafrica.org/reports
https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/shaping-school-food-proveg-uk-plant-based.html
I know ProVeg’s School Plates programme has been discussed positively on the EA Forum before. It’s not at the EA Animal Welfare funding threshold I believe, but given it improves health in a high-income country it doesn’t need to be.
There’s a bunch of different interventions about getting more plant-based stuff to people that’s basically supported by governments in certain higher-income countries due to the health benefits and that nobody has any real issues with.
For wild animals there’s screworm-free future, that I don’t think anyone is objecting to?
Oh and there’s also in-ovo sexing for egg laying chickens and buying shrimp stunners. Basically, provision of free/cheap farming tech that reduces suffering while having no/positive productivity impacts, or research into such.