EAs concerned about animal welfare have typically focused on farmed animals, as opposed to animal testing, because of the much larger scale of the suffering
EAs mostly haven’t heard of it.
Maybe some EAs have heard about it, but they don’t think it is worth the effort to write a post about it.
But tribalistic explanations could be a factor too (e.g. MAHA has anti-science vibes, and EAs like to stay on the pro-science side).
(This is probably not the most constructive feedback, but my initial reaction to this short form was that it felt like a right-wing analog of left-wing “Why don’t the EAs tweet about Gaza?”-style criticisms).
I don’t think so.
Some less tribalistic hypotheses I can think of:
EAs concerned about animal welfare have typically focused on farmed animals, as opposed to animal testing, because of the much larger scale of the suffering
EAs mostly haven’t heard of it.
Maybe some EAs have heard about it, but they don’t think it is worth the effort to write a post about it.
But tribalistic explanations could be a factor too (e.g. MAHA has anti-science vibes, and EAs like to stay on the pro-science side).
(This is probably not the most constructive feedback, but my initial reaction to this short form was that it felt like a right-wing analog of left-wing “Why don’t the EAs tweet about Gaza?”-style criticisms).