One of the shrimp-related interventions that animal advocates have worked on is ending eyestalk ablation—the act of cutting the eyes off of living mother shrimp.
Curious to hear how people feel about this kind of work?
(I haven’t done the maths or read any academic work on this topic, but my assumption is that this is probably a robustly good thing, and good value for money?)
I don’t have particular expertise in this, but your comment suggests to me that there may indeed be animal welfare interventions with more obviously robust positive impacts. On the one hand, the post did consider some of the most prominent interventions, but perhaps it did ignore some of the more clear wins (based on evidence or just fairly obvious intuition ).
Thanks for the thoughtful and truth-seeking post.
One of the shrimp-related interventions that animal advocates have worked on is ending eyestalk ablation—the act of cutting the eyes off of living mother shrimp.
Shrimp Welfare Project work on this—https://www.shrimpwelfareproject.org/blog/what-is-eyestalk-ablation / https://www.shrimpwelfareproject.org/eyestalk-ablation-free
And animal campaigners have won some commitments to end this practice—https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/lidl-gb-bans-eyestalk-ablation-for-farmed-prawns-joining-nine-other-u-k-retailers/
Curious to hear how people feel about this kind of work?
(I haven’t done the maths or read any academic work on this topic, but my assumption is that this is probably a robustly good thing, and good value for money?)
I don’t have particular expertise in this, but your comment suggests to me that there may indeed be animal welfare interventions with more obviously robust positive impacts. On the one hand, the post did consider some of the most prominent interventions, but perhaps it did ignore some of the more clear wins (based on evidence or just fairly obvious intuition ).