Hi Wayne, that’s fair. I hadn’t been including farmed animal welfare in the comparison because I don’t think people donating to therapy organizations are doing it for animal welfare reasons.
I don’t think it would be practical for givewell to include animal welfare in its evaluations. I think donors who care about both animal and human welfare would have more impact giving to separate projects optimising for each of those goals
I think donors who care about both animal and human welfare would have more impact giving to separate projects optimising for each of those goals
I think donors who care about human and animal welfare, in the sense of valuing 1 unit of welfare the same regardless of species, had better support animal welfare interventions roughly exclusively, instead of interventions optimised for human welfare as well as ones optimised for human welfare. I estimate:
Broiler welfare and cage-free campaigns are 168 and 462 times as cost-effective as GiveWell’s top charities.
The Shrimp Welfare Project is 64.3 k as cost-effective as GiveWell’s top charities.
Hi Wayne, that’s fair. I hadn’t been including farmed animal welfare in the comparison because I don’t think people donating to therapy organizations are doing it for animal welfare reasons.
I don’t think it would be practical for givewell to include animal welfare in its evaluations. I think donors who care about both animal and human welfare would have more impact giving to separate projects optimising for each of those goals
Hi James.
I think donors who care about human and animal welfare, in the sense of valuing 1 unit of welfare the same regardless of species, had better support animal welfare interventions roughly exclusively, instead of interventions optimised for human welfare as well as ones optimised for human welfare. I estimate:
Broiler welfare and cage-free campaigns are 168 and 462 times as cost-effective as GiveWell’s top charities.
The Shrimp Welfare Project is 64.3 k as cost-effective as GiveWell’s top charities.