Hi Michael. Since writing this I finished the paper for OP which I can share with you if you’d like to read it. I’d say that the research found almost no existing FAW interventions in Muslim countries that leverage Islamic principles: the handful that exist (cage-free campaigns in Turkey, the Gulf, Indonesia, Malaysia) are mostly EA/welfare driven and don’t really engage with Islamic theology. The most promising intervention identified is working within the halaal certification ecosystem, since there are ~400 certification bodies globally with huge variation in standards and significant profit incentives that could be redirected toward welfare. Layer hen welfare was flagged as the most immediately tractable target. Longer term, getting ahead of lab-grown meat’s halaal status could be valuable. Overall the biggest surprise was how little information there was about industries or consumer attitudes in this space.
Afterwards I ran a n~6000 person survey of Muslims from 15 countries to fill in some gaps regarding our understanding of what Muslims think about industrial agriculture and slaughter in relation to their religious and moral beliefs—that survey is finished and I’m working on sharing the results publicly within the next month or so (as well as open-sourcing the dataset).
Ah, influencing certifiers sounds interesting, would love to take a look at the paper! :)
Also looking forward to your survey when it’s ready!
I’ve been curious lately about Muslims’ attitudes towards stunning and slaughter practices, and especially what kinds of stunning would be acceptable, in case we wanted to promote more stunning or even do more R&D for halal stunning.
Hi Michael. Since writing this I finished the paper for OP which I can share with you if you’d like to read it. I’d say that the research found almost no existing FAW interventions in Muslim countries that leverage Islamic principles: the handful that exist (cage-free campaigns in Turkey, the Gulf, Indonesia, Malaysia) are mostly EA/welfare driven and don’t really engage with Islamic theology. The most promising intervention identified is working within the halaal certification ecosystem, since there are ~400 certification bodies globally with huge variation in standards and significant profit incentives that could be redirected toward welfare. Layer hen welfare was flagged as the most immediately tractable target. Longer term, getting ahead of lab-grown meat’s halaal status could be valuable. Overall the biggest surprise was how little information there was about industries or consumer attitudes in this space.
Afterwards I ran a n~6000 person survey of Muslims from 15 countries to fill in some gaps regarding our understanding of what Muslims think about industrial agriculture and slaughter in relation to their religious and moral beliefs—that survey is finished and I’m working on sharing the results publicly within the next month or so (as well as open-sourcing the dataset).
Ah, influencing certifiers sounds interesting, would love to take a look at the paper! :)
Also looking forward to your survey when it’s ready!
I’ve been curious lately about Muslims’ attitudes towards stunning and slaughter practices, and especially what kinds of stunning would be acceptable, in case we wanted to promote more stunning or even do more R&D for halal stunning.