How effective is an internal animal welfare feebate? by Stijn Bruers 🔸

·Nuno Sempere··

Effec­tive an­i­mal welfare cam­paigns tar­get food sec­tors that use small an­i­mals such as chick­ens, fish and shrimp (cfr. cage free eggs, shrimp welfare cam­paigns). Those cam­paigns are of­ten in­sti­tu­tional, mean­ing that they aim for in­sti­tu­tional change (cfr. cor­po­rate cam­paigns) in­stead of in­di­vi­d­ual be­hav­ior change. But those most effec­tive cam­paigns are welfarist (re­duc­ing the in­ten­sity of an­i­mal suffer­ing of farmed an­i­mals), in­stead of re­duc­tion­ist (re­...

Read full article →

Related Articles

Practice makes perfect. Agentic AI pro-social behavior as a missing alignment corpus. by Alex Novikau
Alex N. · Nuno Sempere · 1d ago
The current bottleneck is political will, not research by Charbel-Raphael
Charbel-Raphael · Nuno Sempere · 1d ago
Planetary Defence (PD) - the most complete effort to address a cosmic threat to date: a short review by MaxSJC
MaxSJC · Nuno Sempere · 2d ago
Abiological vs Biological DNA: Can an ORF-Finding Pipeline Tell Plasmid DNA from Wikipedia Encoded as DNA? by Sydney Shuster
Sydney Shuster · Nuno Sempere · 3d ago
Would your AI travel agent book a bullfight? Testing whether agents consider animal welfare without being prompted by Jonah Woodward
Jonah Woodward · Nuno Sempere · 3d ago