Executive summary: The shift from global health to animal welfare interventions in effective altruism may backfire due to various challenges, including resistance to imposed changes, social dismissal, politicization, and difficulties in measuring outcomes.
Key points:
Animal welfare interventions often involve imposed regulations, leading to resistance from farmers and consumers.
Animal welfare arguments are more easily dismissed socially compared to global health initiatives.
Animal welfare is more politicized, potentially generating conspiracies and opposition.
Extreme animal welfare arguments may alienate people from supporting more moderate positions.
Research on animal welfare faces significant measurement challenges and may yield few actionable results.
Expanding moral circles to include more animals risks slippery slope arguments and accusations of valuing animals over humans.
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Executive summary: The shift from global health to animal welfare interventions in effective altruism may backfire due to various challenges, including resistance to imposed changes, social dismissal, politicization, and difficulties in measuring outcomes.
Key points:
Animal welfare interventions often involve imposed regulations, leading to resistance from farmers and consumers.
Animal welfare arguments are more easily dismissed socially compared to global health initiatives.
Animal welfare is more politicized, potentially generating conspiracies and opposition.
Extreme animal welfare arguments may alienate people from supporting more moderate positions.
Research on animal welfare faces significant measurement challenges and may yield few actionable results.
Expanding moral circles to include more animals risks slippery slope arguments and accusations of valuing animals over humans.
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