To those interested (as cited in the linked BBC article of this post) Jennifer Jacquet and Becca Franks are two leaders against octopus farming, and both are in EA farm animal welfare circles.
If you are interested in reaching out, Jennifer and Becca are friendly and communicative and have collaborated on promising EA projects in the past.
I’m an outsider to this, but it is my sense there is no grand council looking after fish or farm animal welfare. This is it, all the people involved. There is no team B working on this.
Jennifer and Becca are formidable, there aren’t many people like them.
This means that funding and support for new leaders and talent can make a big difference.
It seems possible that you are already doing this?
To explain, I think EA has the potential to have really talented leadership in animal welfare. Think of the people we know about:
Kieran Grieg, who understands the economics of the new octopus farm and has a global perspective.
Jennifer Jacquet and Becca Franks, who are internationally respected and lead projects to support fish and octopus welfare.
Lewis Bollard who helped fund Becca Franks, and most of the farm animal movement.
If the above is true and they are useful leaders, it seems like that we can develop more talent and institutions through the work of CEA and other meta-EA activities?
Many thousands of people on the internet will write and petition to end this octopus farm. That’s valuable. But EA offers different competencies and theories of change that seem hard to get elsewhere. I bet many people would give up a lot to have the opportunity to support new leaders and create a competent, global movement to help animals.
But you know more than me about CEA (maybe at some point you will learn about other approaches and tell us about it? I don’t know.)
To those interested (as cited in the linked BBC article of this post) Jennifer Jacquet and Becca Franks are two leaders against octopus farming, and both are in EA farm animal welfare circles.
Jennifer Jacquet is established faculty at NYU, and Becca Franks is an Open Phil grant recipient.
If you are interested in reaching out, Jennifer and Becca are friendly and communicative and have collaborated on promising EA projects in the past.
I’m an outsider to this, but it is my sense there is no grand council looking after fish or farm animal welfare. This is it, all the people involved. There is no team B working on this.
Jennifer and Becca are formidable, there aren’t many people like them.
This means that funding and support for new leaders and talent can make a big difference.
That is really awful to hear, and I’m incredibly grateful to the people who are working on this.
Thanks for pointing this out—and I’d love to hear how I can help change this fact.
It seems possible that you are already doing this?
To explain, I think EA has the potential to have really talented leadership in animal welfare. Think of the people we know about:
Kieran Grieg, who understands the economics of the new octopus farm and has a global perspective.
Jennifer Jacquet and Becca Franks, who are internationally respected and lead projects to support fish and octopus welfare.
Lewis Bollard who helped fund Becca Franks, and most of the farm animal movement.
If the above is true and they are useful leaders, it seems like that we can develop more talent and institutions through the work of CEA and other meta-EA activities?
Many thousands of people on the internet will write and petition to end this octopus farm. That’s valuable. But EA offers different competencies and theories of change that seem hard to get elsewhere. I bet many people would give up a lot to have the opportunity to support new leaders and create a competent, global movement to help animals.
But you know more than me about CEA (maybe at some point you will learn about other approaches and tell us about it? I don’t know.)