November #2: Research Use in Asia and Donation Election
Your farmed animal advocacy update
As December approaches, we're in the midst of year-end planning—holiday travels, 2024 donations, and budget gaps. In this November #2 edition, we're cutting through the noise to share resources and information that may help advance your animal advocacy efforts 🧡
🎁 Opportunity: Vote in the EA Forum’s Donation Election
Vote by 3 December to help determine which 3 charities will receive the $13,000+.
Meet the Donation Election candidates, 17 of which are animal welfare-related.
Hive is participating! Read our case for giving to us: Hive: 2024 Achievements, Current Funding Situation, and Plans.
📚 Report: Research And Data As Tools In Advocates’ Decision-Making: A Focus On China & Southeast Asia
Joint report by Faunalytics and Good Growth shows how advocates in China and Southeast Asia use research and data.
Highlights the importance of localization, credibility, accessibility, and usability.
Opportunities include data collection and consolidation, replicating global research on a regional level, engaging target research users, and more.
💻 Event: AIM Connect Online is taking place on 5 December. The online event will include a series of short talks by Charity Entrepreneurship-incubated charities & updates by Ambitious Impact.
Warmly,
Sofia, Allison, and the Hive team
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🌍 Animals and Climate
Broiler Watch Report by Alianima gives an overview of Brazil's chicken meat industry, highlighting critical animal welfare issues.
Giving Green released their 2024 top climate nonprofits and Giving Green Fund grantees, which includes organizations working on food systems.
The carbon footprint of your Thanksgiving meal varies by food, diet, and ingredients.
Report estimates the total amount of hidden costs of pig and poultry factory farming to the UK taxpayer to be over £1.2 billion annually. This includes subsidies, environmental pollution, public health problems, and lost farming jobs.
⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law
3 US localities recently voted on ballot propositions: Berkeley becomes 1st US city to ban factory farming, while Sonoma County’s Measure J and the Denver ordinances failed.
The USDA’s ‘Climate-smart’ policies lack transparency, and sometimes may actually harm the environment by funding major meat companies.
Denmark to implement a greenhouse gas tax on meat and dairy farmers.
What do the US elections mean for farmed animals?
🥗 Plant-Based Food & Cultivated Protein
Cultivated foie gras marks 1st cultivated meat sale in Hong Kong.
White Papers on cell line development and cell culture media components examine current gaps and offer potential solutions and pathways for collaboration.
💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) announced their 2024 Charity Recommendations!
Re-evaluated and still recommended: Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği, Dansk Vegetarisk Forening, and Sinergia Animal.
Newly evaluated and recommended: Aquatic Life Institute and Good Food Fund.
ARDE (Animal Respect & Defense of the Environment) is a new nonprofit.
Good Food Institute shared their 2024 Research Grant Program outcomes.
Healthier Hens provided an update about their shutdown.
Report on agenda setting presents a theory on how it can be used to influence the media and formal political decision-making to advance farmed animal issues.
The 2024 Future Perfect 50 were released—and include many animal advocates like Billie Eilish, Dulce Ramirez, Katie Cantrell, Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl, and more.
🎲 Other
How the meat industry groups are portraying “radical vegan activists.”
How we frame our messages can sometimes hinder our efforts.
Some thoughts on which groups of animals are most affected by fishing, directly or indirectly, and what to consider when evaluating whether fishing is net good or bad.
The growing chasm in American meat consumption, explained: “The number of households that avoid meat has increased slightly, while all other households have increased their meat purchases by an average of nearly 15 percent by weight relative to other foods.”
There was a big push for the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) earlier this month, spurred on by this case for giving. It resulted in an additional $13,000+ for SWP!
💼 Jobs:
Chief Executive Officer, Animal and Plant Health Agency. UK. Apply by 11 Dec.
Corporate Communications Manager - Asia, Singeria Animal. Southeast Asia.
Digital Media Specialist, Animal Legal Defense Fund. US. Apply by 30 Nov.
Director of Digital Mobilization, International Council for Animal Welfare.
Executive Director, Food Revolution Alliance. US.
Marketing Communications Senior Manager and Research Editor, Asia Research and Engagement. Remote from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India.
Researcher, Animal Law & Policy Network Research Foundation. Bengaluru. Apply by 30 Nov.
Science and Technology Manager, Meat Alternatives and Associate Director of Operations, Good Food Institute Israel.
Several positions with the Albert Schweitzer Foundation. Berlin.
US Research Manager, Compassion in World Farming. US.
For more job listings, follow Hive Slack’s job bot in the #job-posting channel for new positions in a daily feed! Also, you can view the Animal Advocacy Careers, Tälist, Alt Protein Careers, and Probably Good job boards.
🔥 Opportunities
Asia for Animals (AfA) Conference is coming to Taipei in August 2025:
Submit your abstract or speaker proposal by 10 December.
Travel award applications are being accepted until 18 December.
AI for Animal Conference 2025 is inviting speaker proposals, volunteer signups, and sponsorships.
Farmed Animal Funders is pleased to invite eligible donors beyond their existing membership to join the Aquatic Animal Funding Circle.
Get personalized advice about taking a Giving for Animals pledge. Book a 1-on-1 call by 20 December.
Rethink Priorities’ Animal Welfare (AW) team is accepting expressions of interest from individuals keen to collaborate with them on a research project or task-specific basis, as a contractor. Submit your info by 15 December.
The Double Up Drive selected two animal charities, Animal Charity Evaluators and the Good Food Institute, for their 2024 match drive. The match will start on 3 December and last until funds run out.
User-Friendly is offering free workshops: Presenting Skills on 5 December, and Writing to Persuade on 19 December & 20 January.
💰 Funding
Farmed Animal Funders is looking to fund organizations seeking to implement strategic plant-based food system transformation policy in Europe. Learn more about the Plant-Based EU Policy Fund (PEP Fund) and submit the screening application by 29 November.
Request for Proposals by Friends of the Earth U.S. for policy advocacy opposing factory farm gas. Submit by 13 December.
Thrive Grants offers grants of various sizes. Apply 1 December.
💎Don’t forget we have an updated fundraising database of the most current opportunities listed as well as more resources on how to fundraise.
📚 Research:
New report shows how advocates in China and Southeast Asia use research and data, highlighting the importance of localization, stakeholder engagement, and data accessibility to improve advocacy efforts.
Meta-analysis shows that meaningfully reducing meat and animal product consumption is an unsolved problem.
Analysis of 35 papers (41 studies, 112 interventions) shows very small overall effects for reducing meat consumption.
Red meat reduction specifically showed larger effects but may lead to increased chicken or fish consumption.
Summary and study on how an undercover video boosted support most for more moderate animal welfare reforms and attracted new donors.
Summary and study shows emphasizing the bodily nature of lactation increases disgust towards cow milk, but this does not reliably decrease intended consumption.
📕Books or other
2 strategy roadmaps for establishing fundamental rights for animals and banning factory farming by Animal Think Tank.
Bluesky, a social media platform similar to X, has groups of people to start following—thank you to Björn Ólafsson for compiling the list!
Animal protection: Vegan and animal advocacy, Vegan animal rights, Animal rights/factory farming
Food and agriculture: Food and Agriculture, Environment, food policy, civil servants, climate governance, Alt Protein, Food and Farming Folk
Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning resource list from The Mission Motor.
The Optimist’s Barn is a new Substack blog that explores the techno-optimist point of view for farm animal welfare.
🎁 Media
Podcasts
Animal Justice Academy: The War on Compassion with Wayne Hsiung
Hear This Idea: Cynthia Schuck-Paim on Quantifying Animal Welfare
How I Learned to Love Shrimp: Joyce Tischler on 45 years in animal law
The Hen House: Combatting Misinformation with Robbie Lockie
Wayne Hsiung: Turkeys, AI, and the Future of Thanksgiving with Peter Singer
Plantbased Business Hour: What is Plant-Rich Meat and is it a Sell-Out?
Videos
The Mission Motor’s presentation recording on outcome harvesting and impact tracking (+ slides)
🌎 Building the Latin American Hive Community
15 advocates from across Latin America joined us at Introducción a Hive para Activistas de Derechos Animales en LATAM! We enjoyed the vibrant session of conversation and introductions—and hopefully, the onboarding support for the Hive Slack will help it become a better experience for the Spanish-speaking community.
We posted the event recording for those of you who couldn't attend. Feel free to join the discussion in the Hive Slack channel #r-latin-america.
🎉 Hive at EAGxVirtual
Hive co-founder Sofia Balderson gave a talk at EAGxVirtual titled From a Side Project to a Funded Organization: My Story and What I've Learned.
If you missed the live session, you can watch the recording.
also led the farmed animal welfare meetup—helping connect 35+ advocates from around the world.🦐 Shrimp advocacy event with Rethink Priorities
Huge thank you to Hannah McKay, Research Analyst in Rethink Priorities’ Animal Welfare Department, for your presentation to the Hive Community on shrimp welfare advocacy and opportunities.
The online event wasn’t recorded, so if you want to learn more, you can request a copy of the report or read the summary.
🤝 Upcoming external events
Giving Tuesday for Animals: How Can 10% Make a Huge Impact for Animals, 3 December.
AIM Connect Online, 5 December.
AVA Summit Latin America, 5–8 December. São Paulo, Brazil.
EAGxSingapore, 14–15 December. Singapore.
Pakistan's 1st International Animal and Environmental Rights Conference, 18–19 January.
EA Global: Bay Area, 21–23 February. Oakland.
AI for Animals Conference, 1–2 March. Berkeley.
View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list and Animal Rights Calendar.
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