Cool that you’re designing a MSc dissertation on this! Please share it with me when you’re done :)
I’m pretty skeptical of efforts to remove agricultural subsidies from factory farming, both because I think it’s really hard and because I’m skeptical that subsidies have a large price effect on meat. (I think people sometimes confuse the fact that farmers really like subsidies with an assumption they must be lowering prices a lot—I think they’re often structured instead to prop up prices.) I’m more optimistic about seeking subsidies for plant-based meat research, and potentially for plant-based agriculture (though I’d note this is a huge field and many protein crops are already heavily subsidized).
I’m unsure how many resources organizations should devote to social media. We generally don’t fund much of this kind of work, so haven’t looked deeply into it. I’m not too worried re fatigue, given my sense is our total penetration is still pretty low, but I think it’s an open question of how much impact existing social media content has or whether it’s mostly just preaching to the converted.
Cool that you’re designing a MSc dissertation on this! Please share it with me when you’re done :)
I’m pretty skeptical of efforts to remove agricultural subsidies from factory farming, both because I think it’s really hard and because I’m skeptical that subsidies have a large price effect on meat. (I think people sometimes confuse the fact that farmers really like subsidies with an assumption they must be lowering prices a lot—I think they’re often structured instead to prop up prices.) I’m more optimistic about seeking subsidies for plant-based meat research, and potentially for plant-based agriculture (though I’d note this is a huge field and many protein crops are already heavily subsidized).
I’m unsure how many resources organizations should devote to social media. We generally don’t fund much of this kind of work, so haven’t looked deeply into it. I’m not too worried re fatigue, given my sense is our total penetration is still pretty low, but I think it’s an open question of how much impact existing social media content has or whether it’s mostly just preaching to the converted.