Being the executive director of ACE, I’m obviously quite biased. Then again, I joined ACE because I was convinced of the need for more funding for animal health and wellbeing.
At ACE, once our current busy period has ended, we’ll dive into the perspectives and arguments presented in this debate week as a team and likely post here and on our blog our reflection.
After just skimming this week’s content, the arguments that I personally find most convincing come down to (1) scale and extent of suffering, (2) how little money effective animal advocacy is currently receiving both in relative terms compared to other cause areas and considering the amount of work that needs to and can get done, (3) that animal suffering is a growing but solvable problem.
The reason I’m not 100% agreeing is that I just do not know the global health space well enough. In the animal welfare sector, we’re regularly confronted with outdated or uninformed opinions on tractability, context of the movement, complexity of issues, capacity for subjective experiences, etc. I am likely uninformed of the current opportunities and issues facing human GHW work.
Being the executive director of ACE, I’m obviously quite biased. Then again, I joined ACE because I was convinced of the need for more funding for animal health and wellbeing.
At ACE, once our current busy period has ended, we’ll dive into the perspectives and arguments presented in this debate week as a team and likely post here and on our blog our reflection.
After just skimming this week’s content, the arguments that I personally find most convincing come down to (1) scale and extent of suffering, (2) how little money effective animal advocacy is currently receiving both in relative terms compared to other cause areas and considering the amount of work that needs to and can get done, (3) that animal suffering is a growing but solvable problem.
The reason I’m not 100% agreeing is that I just do not know the global health space well enough. In the animal welfare sector, we’re regularly confronted with outdated or uninformed opinions on tractability, context of the movement, complexity of issues, capacity for subjective experiences, etc. I am likely uninformed of the current opportunities and issues facing human GHW work.