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Research & Updates
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March 2024
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Current Affairs: Why Factory Farming is a Moral Atrocity
Date
March 04, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2024
Title
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Laws
Date
February 29, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2024
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EA Consulting Network: The Case for Developing Specialized Expertise with Lewis Bollard
Date
January 11, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2024
Title
Social Science Research Topics for Animal Welfare
Date
January 09, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2023
Title
A Year of Wins for Farmed Animals
Date
December 14, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
Title
Hear This Idea: Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
Date
November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
Title
What Could AI Mean for Animals?
Date
November 16, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2023
Title
Europe’s Animal Welfare Reforms Are Under Threat
Date
October 18, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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October 2023
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Does Alternative Meat Need Philanthropy to Take It Beyond?
Date
October 16, 2023
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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August 2023
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How I Learned To Love Shrimp Podcast: Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy’s funding for farmed animal welfare
Date
August 10, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2023
Title
We Love Animals. Why Do We Torture Them?
Date
July 18, 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2023
May 2023
Title
A Big Supreme Court Win for Farm Animals
Date
May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2023
Title
Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
Date
March 17, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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March 2023
Title
What Happened to Plant-Based Meat?
Date
March 07, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2022
Title
Big Wins for Farm Animals This Decade
Date
December 22, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2022
Title
How Can Governments Advance Alternative Proteins?
Date
November 28, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2022
Title
The War on Meat and Milk Alternatives
Date
August 29, 2022
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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June 2022
Title
Farm Animals at the Supreme Court
Date
June 16, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2022
Title
Have We Hit Peak Plant-Based Meat?
Date
April 01, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2021
Title
Ten Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2021
Date
December 24, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2021
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The New York Times: We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror
Date
December 16, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2021
Title
Vox: Why the future of animal welfare lies beyond the West
Date
November 26, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2021
June 2021
Title
Reuters: Caged animal farming must end in EU, European Commission says
Date
June 30, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
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The Washington Post: As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite of Big Meat’s burger
Date
June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
Title
Scale-Up Economics for Cultured Meat
Date
June 07, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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May 2021
Title
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
Date
May 10, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2021
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The Washington Post: Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing ire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2021
Title
The Brussels Times: European Citizens’ initiative to end the use of cages in animal farming in EU on the right track
Date
April 18, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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March 2021
Title
Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
Date
March 19, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2021
Title
If We Build It, Will They Come?
Date
March 09, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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March 2021
Title
Vox: The next frontier for animal welfare: fish
Date
March 02, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2021
Title
80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2020
Title
Seven Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2020
Date
December 21, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2020
Title
Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
Date
December 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2020
Title
What Could a Biden Administration Mean for Farm Animals?
Date
November 20, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2020
Title
Nikkei Asia: Thai Food Producers Shift Focus to Animal Welfare
Date
October 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2020
Title
Political Opportunities for Farm Animals in Europe
Date
September 25, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2020
Title
Vox: Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2020
Title
How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
Date
August 12, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2020
April 2020
February 2020
Title
Documentaries and Farm Animals
Date
February 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2019
Title
10 Years of Progress for Farm Animals
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2019
August 2019
Title
What Can We Learn from the Fur-Free Fight?
Date
August 28, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2019
Title
The Guardian: Campaigners demand end to fish tethering ‘torture’ in Taiwan
Date
August 19, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2019
Title
Will Companies Make Good on Cage-Free Pledges?
Date
August 12, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2019
Title
Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
Date
May 02, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2019
Title
The New York Times: Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’
Date
April 01, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2019
Title
Impact Investing for Farm Animals
Date
March 08, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2019
Title
Gender Equity in the Farmed Animal Movement
Date
February 04, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2019
Title
Vox: Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not people’s plates.
Date
January 29, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2019
Title
The Economist: How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat
Date
January 19, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2018
Title
How Can You Do the Most Good for Animals?
Date
December 21, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2018
Title
The War on Animal Product Alternatives
Date
August 15, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2018
Title
How Much Should We Focus on Slaughter?
Date
July 18, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2018
Title
CNN: This startup wants to help the planet with meatless burgers
Date
May 24, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2018
Title
Fish: The Forgotten Farm Animal
Date
January 18, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2017
Title
We’re Going Beyond Coal. Could We Go Beyond Factory Farming?
Date
November 17, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2017
Title
How Can We Reduce Demand for Meat?
Date
September 20, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2017
Title
Why Did the EU Lead the World on Farm Animal Welfare and How Can It Lead Again?
Date
September 18, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2017
Title
How Will Hen Welfare Be Impacted by the Transition to Cage-Free Housing?
Date
September 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2017
Title
New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing
Date
September 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2017
Title
Can We Knock Out Factory Farming’s Supports?
Date
June 28, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2017
Title
Why This Could Be the Year of the Broiler Chicken
Date
May 14, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2017
Title
Carolina Macedo, Director of Farm Animal Campaigns, Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Date
April 14, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2017
Title
Why Are the US Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns Succeeding?
Date
April 11, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2017
Title
Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director, and Clare Bland, Development Director, The Good Food Institute (GFI)
Date
March 27, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2017
Title
David Coman-Hidy, President; Michelle Kucerak, Vice President, Development; and Aaron Ross, Vice President, Policy & Strategy, The Humane League
Date
February 28, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2017
Title
How Can We Achieve Breakthrough Change For Farm Animals?
Date
February 22, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Dr. Chetana Mirle, Director, Farm Animals, and Elissa Lane, Deputy Director, Farm Animals, Humane Society International
Date
February 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
February 10, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Josh Balk, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
February 09, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Jaya Bhumitra, International Director of Corporate Outreach, and Sharon Nuñez Gough, Executive Director, Animal Equality
Date
February 09, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2017
Title
Gauri Maulekhi, Trustee, People for Animals
Date
February 06, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
January 2017
Title
Professor Keith Frankish, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, The Open University
Date
January 24, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
January 2017
Title
Dr. Derek Shiller, Software Engineer, DailyPay
Date
January 24, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2017
Title
How Can We Improve US Policy for Farm Animals?
Date
January 20, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2016
Title
Dr. James D. Rose, Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming
Date
November 18, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2016
Title
Anne Malleau, Executive Director, Global Animal Partnership
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2016
Title
Leah Garces, Executive Director, and Dawn Rotheram, Development Director, Compassion in World Farming USA
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2016
Title
Brian Tomasik, Research Lead, Foundational Research Institute
Date
October 06, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2016
Title
Professor Michael Tye, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
Date
August 24, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2016
Title
David Coman-Hidy, Executive Director; Aaron Ross, Director of Campaigns; and Michelle Kucerak, Director of Development, The Humane League
Date
August 22, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2016
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
August 16, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2016
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
August 01, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2016
Title
Paul Shapiro, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
July 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2016
Title
Dr. Gary Drescher, Artificial intelligence researcher, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date
July 18, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2016
Title
Professor Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, University of Birmingham
Date
July 03, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2016
Title
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Date
May 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2016
Title
Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms
Date
March 31, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2015
Title
Animal Product Alternatives
Date
December 13, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2015
Title
Steve Oh, Phd, Principal Scientist, Bioprocessing Technology Institute
Date
October 07, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2015
Title
Mark Post, Professor of Vascular Physiology and Chair of Physiology, Maastricht University
Date
March 24, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2015
June 2014
Title
Virginia Clarke, Executive Director, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
Date
June 04, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2014