A confession: the first time I read about shrimp welfare in CE’s reports I rolled my eyes and thought “C’mon, seriously? Weren’t bugs enough?”, but I came to radically change my opinion (because of normative uncertainty, and because cutting shrimps’ eyes is evil, even if they are basically delicious bug monsters). I still use this example in a hideous “trap-joke” when talking to EAs—I start saying that I don’t always agree with some of the cause areas people come up with, like shrimp welfare, then we laugh, then I explain how we torture these poor animals for a fraction of the proteins we can get with beans, and that almost nobody was talking about it before CE.
A confession: I’ve been a vegan for more than 10 years now and frankly, even though I changed my diet precisely to avoid inflicting unnecessary suffering, I had never really given too much thought to the suffering of aquatic animals until 2-3 years ago. I get where you’re coming from.
Thankfully, the conscious search of new ways to improve the world by the EA community and Charity Entrepreneurship has now made this a salient issue and placed their trust in Aaron and me to try to make a difference. We will work tirelessly to make your “trap-joke” stop working ;)
Thanks for the post.
A confession: the first time I read about shrimp welfare in CE’s reports I rolled my eyes and thought “C’mon, seriously? Weren’t bugs enough?”, but I came to radically change my opinion (because of normative uncertainty, and because cutting shrimps’ eyes is evil, even if they are basically delicious bug monsters). I still use this example in a hideous “trap-joke” when talking to EAs—I start saying that I don’t always agree with some of the cause areas people come up with, like shrimp welfare, then we laugh, then I explain how we torture these poor animals for a fraction of the proteins we can get with beans, and that almost nobody was talking about it before CE.
@Ramiro
A confession: I’ve been a vegan for more than 10 years now and frankly, even though I changed my diet precisely to avoid inflicting unnecessary suffering, I had never really given too much thought to the suffering of aquatic animals until 2-3 years ago. I get where you’re coming from.
Thankfully, the conscious search of new ways to improve the world by the EA community and Charity Entrepreneurship has now made this a salient issue and placed their trust in Aaron and me to try to make a difference. We will work tirelessly to make your “trap-joke” stop working ;)