It’s always possible to describe things in a very unflattering way, where you talk about some inputs as opposed to your goal or just describe it in a pessimistic light (eg, cheap/stingy vs. frugal). The OP describes “protests, or boycotts, or negotiations” as not something he wants to fund, but I think if you talked about funding pyrethroid production, that would also not be something he wants to fund, though that’s another way of describing insecticide-treated bednets. You could also go even worse and talk about “mass genocide of insects” or something.
To put it another way, I think global health people (who I have deep respect for) would be pretty upset and rightly call out someone writing a post where someone said they didn’t donate to global health charities since they don’t want to fund the chemical manufacturing industry, which is what we are actually purchasing.
I think I did not do a good job of framing this post. My goal was not to criticise the people working in animal welfare organisations, quite the contrary! I think they are doing very necessary work, and I am really grateful to them, especially given how weird this looks to most people. In other words, I am not claiming that these feelings are right, only that they exist.
The goal of the post was instead to reflect on something I feel (and presumably others feel too), which may be dragging donations to those organisations. In my case, this applies to politics too.
Understood. I was responding to what I assumed OP was getting at, regardless of how poorly framed, and your specific naming of chemicals threw me off. Thanks for clarifying.
It’s always possible to describe things in a very unflattering way, where you talk about some inputs as opposed to your goal or just describe it in a pessimistic light (eg, cheap/stingy vs. frugal). The OP describes “protests, or boycotts, or negotiations” as not something he wants to fund, but I think if you talked about funding pyrethroid production, that would also not be something he wants to fund, though that’s another way of describing insecticide-treated bednets. You could also go even worse and talk about “mass genocide of insects” or something.
To put it another way, I think global health people (who I have deep respect for) would be pretty upset and rightly call out someone writing a post where someone said they didn’t donate to global health charities since they don’t want to fund the chemical manufacturing industry, which is what we are actually purchasing.
I think I did not do a good job of framing this post. My goal was not to criticise the people working in animal welfare organisations, quite the contrary! I think they are doing very necessary work, and I am really grateful to them, especially given how weird this looks to most people. In other words, I am not claiming that these feelings are right, only that they exist.
The goal of the post was instead to reflect on something I feel (and presumably others feel too), which may be dragging donations to those organisations. In my case, this applies to politics too.
I think that’s fair. I appreciate that you engage with this problem that I think most people ignore.
Understood. I was responding to what I assumed OP was getting at, regardless of how poorly framed, and your specific naming of chemicals threw me off. Thanks for clarifying.