That’s right, there is growing support for invertebrate welfare work.
For the EA Animal Welfare Fund, it is a matter of the availability of new opportunities. Historically we have been limited by the applications we received and the talent pool for active grantmaking in this space—both of those increased over time, corresponding to greater support of such initiatives from the fund.
We can already see growing interest from animal advocates. Outside our last funding round grantees, we can see groups like Material Innovation Initiativeworking on silkworms or Charity Entrepreneurship planning to incubate shrimp welfare charity. I believe it may be a matter of time when work on invertebrates will become part of mainstream effective animal advocacy movement.
That’s right, there is growing support for invertebrate welfare work.
For the EA Animal Welfare Fund, it is a matter of the availability of new opportunities. Historically we have been limited by the applications we received and the talent pool for active grantmaking in this space—both of those increased over time, corresponding to greater support of such initiatives from the fund.
We can already see growing interest from animal advocates. Outside our last funding round grantees, we can see groups like Material Innovation Initiativeworking on silkworms or Charity Entrepreneurship planning to incubate shrimp welfare charity. I believe it may be a matter of time when work on invertebrates will become part of mainstream effective animal advocacy movement.