This is an extremely interesting idea. My understanding is that animal-rights campaigns are usually very targeted at a specific company.
My guess, which I can confirm with people who know more about this, is that the highest impact thing you could do is say “Mercy for animals is planning on targeting you for their next action; the last company they targeted had bad financial outcomes X, Y and Z; therefore I recommend you phase out gestation crates or whatever.”
Do you have the ability to target just one company and work with an organization like MFA? Or do you want generic advice like “phase out gestation crates”?
I’m completely unconcerned about abortion, so we may be able to trade.
Hmm, interesting idea. My concern would be that this would look very weird—outside of my role as an investor, which would make them confused / ignore it. It would be strange for an investor to have advance knowledge of an activist stunt! And indeed I do not actually have knowledge of such activities. In particular, I’m not sure what I would add in such a situation, compared to MFA simply contacting the company directly, who would also be more credible.
It does seem that MFA have been successful on the gestation crates. However, I don’t think that exact answer would be applicable here, as generally the companies I’m looking at are like Tyson Foods, rather than the companies which use gestation crates, which tend (I think) to be contractors.
However, I could say something along the lines of “Other companies have been getting negative publicity about gestation crates, and deciding to re-actively stop using them. As it’s better to be proactive than reactive, maybe you should start phasing them out of your supply chain now”.
Also not all the companies do pork, whereas most do chicken.
I’m completely unconcerned about abortion, so we may be able to trade.
Glad to hear it. Are you aware of similar things having been done before? I’m unaware of how it would work, mechanically. (I’m also not sure exactly what I would buy from you in return, but I guess we could settle for a donation to a charity, whose identity I could determine later.)
This is an extremely interesting idea. My understanding is that animal-rights campaigns are usually very targeted at a specific company.
My guess, which I can confirm with people who know more about this, is that the highest impact thing you could do is say “Mercy for animals is planning on targeting you for their next action; the last company they targeted had bad financial outcomes X, Y and Z; therefore I recommend you phase out gestation crates or whatever.”
Do you have the ability to target just one company and work with an organization like MFA? Or do you want generic advice like “phase out gestation crates”?
I’m completely unconcerned about abortion, so we may be able to trade.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Hmm, interesting idea. My concern would be that this would look very weird—outside of my role as an investor, which would make them confused / ignore it. It would be strange for an investor to have advance knowledge of an activist stunt! And indeed I do not actually have knowledge of such activities. In particular, I’m not sure what I would add in such a situation, compared to MFA simply contacting the company directly, who would also be more credible.
It does seem that MFA have been successful on the gestation crates. However, I don’t think that exact answer would be applicable here, as generally the companies I’m looking at are like Tyson Foods, rather than the companies which use gestation crates, which tend (I think) to be contractors.
However, I could say something along the lines of “Other companies have been getting negative publicity about gestation crates, and deciding to re-actively stop using them. As it’s better to be proactive than reactive, maybe you should start phasing them out of your supply chain now”.
Also not all the companies do pork, whereas most do chicken.
Glad to hear it. Are you aware of similar things having been done before? I’m unaware of how it would work, mechanically. (I’m also not sure exactly what I would buy from you in return, but I guess we could settle for a donation to a charity, whose identity I could determine later.)