Animal welfare getting so little[1] EA funding, at present, relative to global health, seems to be an artefact of Open Phil’s ‘worldview diversification,’ which imo is a lacklustre framework for decision-making, both in theory and (especially) in practice: see, e.g., Sempere (2022).
Cost-effectiveness analyses I’ve seen indicate that animal welfare interventions, like cage-free campaigns, are really excellent uses of money—orders of magnitude more effective than leading global health interventions.
Though not central to my argument, there’s also the meat-eater problem, which I think is under-discussed.
Surprisingly (to me), I wasn’t able to quickly find a more up-to-date breakdown of funding by cause area. (There’s this spreadsheet, but the cause areas are broken into sub-areas.)
Animal welfare getting so little[1] EA funding, at present, relative to global health, seems to be an artefact of Open Phil’s ‘worldview diversification,’ which imo is a lacklustre framework for decision-making, both in theory and (especially) in practice: see, e.g., Sempere (2022).
Cost-effectiveness analyses I’ve seen indicate that animal welfare interventions, like cage-free campaigns, are really excellent uses of money—orders of magnitude more effective than leading global health interventions.
Though not central to my argument, there’s also the meat-eater problem, which I think is under-discussed.
Surprisingly (to me), I wasn’t able to quickly find a more up-to-date breakdown of funding by cause area. (There’s this spreadsheet, but the cause areas are broken into sub-areas.)