I guess there are two pieces here. The first is the cause prioritization question of how we’ll prioritize expanding farm animal welfare vs other focus areas. That’s mostly above my pay grade—it’s a decision leadership will make informed by Open Phil’s cause prioritization research. But I’m confident that Open Phil is committed to remaining a major funder in this space, and optimistic about our future trajectory.
The second piece is how our focus within farm animal welfare work will evolve. We’re revisiting our strategy now, so I hope I’ll have more to share in a few months. But I can tell you that two broad challenges are (1) weighing proven tractable interventions (e.g. corporate cage-free and broiler welfare campaigns) against more speculative and potentially larger scale work (e.g. fish welfare, expanding the movement in East Asia), and (2) weighing scaling up existing effective organizations against funding more new promising initiatives. We’ll continue to do a mix of all the above—the key Q is how we prioritize our time and funding between each of them.
I guess there are two pieces here. The first is the cause prioritization question of how we’ll prioritize expanding farm animal welfare vs other focus areas. That’s mostly above my pay grade—it’s a decision leadership will make informed by Open Phil’s cause prioritization research. But I’m confident that Open Phil is committed to remaining a major funder in this space, and optimistic about our future trajectory.
The second piece is how our focus within farm animal welfare work will evolve. We’re revisiting our strategy now, so I hope I’ll have more to share in a few months. But I can tell you that two broad challenges are (1) weighing proven tractable interventions (e.g. corporate cage-free and broiler welfare campaigns) against more speculative and potentially larger scale work (e.g. fish welfare, expanding the movement in East Asia), and (2) weighing scaling up existing effective organizations against funding more new promising initiatives. We’ll continue to do a mix of all the above—the key Q is how we prioritize our time and funding between each of them.