I agree that animal-welfare charities are a good choice. For s-risks, there are the Center on Long-Term Risk and Center for Reducing Suffering.
Personally I’m most enthusiastic about humane slaughter because
as you note in the post, excruciating pain seems vastly more important than lesser pains, and I imagine that slaughter—along with other physical traumas like castration, branding, dehorning, and tail docking—are generally the most excruciating experiences for most food animals
compared with other welfare reforms, and especially compared with meat reduction, slaughter improvements have fewer complicated side effects on wild animals that make the analysis much harder (although work to promote less horrible slaughter can still change consumer demand and prices for animal products, as well as having various other social/etc impacts).
Is there a charity working on fish-slaughter reform? The Humane Slaughter Association does some work in this area, but I wonder if there are other charities doing it. My impression is that most of Fish Welfare Initiative’s work is on welfare during life rather than at slaughter?
I agree that animal-welfare charities are a good choice. For s-risks, there are the Center on Long-Term Risk and Center for Reducing Suffering.
Personally I’m most enthusiastic about humane slaughter because
as you note in the post, excruciating pain seems vastly more important than lesser pains, and I imagine that slaughter—along with other physical traumas like castration, branding, dehorning, and tail docking—are generally the most excruciating experiences for most food animals
compared with other welfare reforms, and especially compared with meat reduction, slaughter improvements have fewer complicated side effects on wild animals that make the analysis much harder (although work to promote less horrible slaughter can still change consumer demand and prices for animal products, as well as having various other social/etc impacts).
Is there a charity working on fish-slaughter reform? The Humane Slaughter Association does some work in this area, but I wonder if there are other charities doing it. My impression is that most of Fish Welfare Initiative’s work is on welfare during life rather than at slaughter?