Deadline time for cage-free commitments, skills for impactful grantmaking, join AI–animal welfare contractor pool
Your farmed animal advocacy update for late June 2025
Hi there!👋 We’re especially excited to share this edition because… Hive Highlights turns three today! 🎉 Read until the end for a personal note on how it all began. In the meantime, here’s your latest dose of movement news, resources, and opportunities!
The most popular link from Hive Highlights early June 2025 was Inside Philanthropy’s feature on Farmed Animal Funders.
To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:
From Movement News
🐖 Animal Welfare: Emma Buckland and Lewis Bollard reflect on the cage-free movement, outlining setbacks and broken pledges but affirming historic gains—over 300 million hens already spared from cages—and continued global momentum. With many corporate commitments coming due, 2025 is a pivotal year for pushing accountability, legal protections, and continued progress.
From Jobs & Opportunities
🔥 Opportunities: AIM Grantmaking is a cohort-based program to equip you with the tools and skills you need to set up your giving for maximum impact. It is ideal for funders, grantmakers, philanthropic advisors, and individuals setting up their giving. Express interest in the two upcoming cohorts by 30 June.
🔥 Opportunities: Rethink Priorities is looking to expand its network of collaborators interested in working on strategy questions related to AI’s intersection with animal welfare and digital sentience. If you have relevant expertise or perspectives and would be open to short- or long-term contracting or project-based collaboration, submit an expression of interest by 29 June.
We appreciate your curiosity about the latest efforts to help more farmed animals around the world. Thank you for reading!
Warmly,
Sofia, Angel, and the Hive team
How to navigate Hive Highlights
Every two weeks Hive sends you the latest updates, organized into four sections (click to jump):
Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other
Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events
Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos
Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!
Other ways to read this newsletter: Extensions ChatGPT Writer (to summarize posts) or Read Aloud.
🐖 Animal Welfare
Aaron Boddy makes a case for more animal advocacy organizations to collaborate with the industry, creating change from within.
Aditya urges advocates to prioritize actions that reduce overall animal suffering, focusing more on impact rather than ideological purity.
Bentham’s Bulldog debunks the promises of the insect farming industry.
Sweden becomes the only country in the world to be cage-free without a legal ban.
🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein
Food tech startup Clever Carnivore achieves industry-leading cost reductions for its cultivated pork, which it hopes to begin selling in the US next year.
Jenny Mace and Andrew Knight explore the drivers of sustainable companion animal food that doesn’t depend on animal farming.
Pure Mylk launches The Mylky Way, Southeast Asia’s first plant-based beverages innovation hub in Malaysia.
Research suggests that most Americans oppose cultivated meat bans, regardless of their political affiliation, and see it as an issue of consumer freedom and national values.
Sydney-based food startup Vow receives regulatory approval to sell cultivated meat in Australia and New Zealand.
Texas, the largest beef-producing state in the US, becomes the seventh state to ban cultivated meat.
⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law
The European Commission is inviting feedback on its revision of the EU’s animal welfare legislation. Give your feedback by 16 July.
The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs publishes a summary of responses and government response to its consultation on food labelling. (See a summary here in Hive Slack.)
💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates
Animal Charities Evaluators announces the 10 charities selected for its charity evaluations this year.
Aquatic Animal Alliance shares what building a collaborative future for aquatic animal protection truly means.
Impact Catalyst is a one-year program incubating high-impact social interventions in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Read program details in Spanish, and apply by 6 July.
PEPR launches Enabling Impact: The Animal Advocacy Ops Collective—a community and place for connection and collaboration among operations professionals across farmed animal and vegan advocacy organizations. Sign up now.
Worldshapers supports high-potential authors and advocates by developing their ideas into impactful books or other media. Apply to their Animal Protection program.
🎲 Other
Constance Li shares a practical guide for aspiring super connectors.
Emre Kaplan explores whether advocacy organizations should stay focused on a single issue or adopt a multi-issue positioning.
HYROX, a global fitness competition, announces a partnership with High Impact Athletes, a nonprofit that connects elite athletes to impactful charities across 3 causes, including animal welfare.
💼 Jobs
EU Project Manager (Consortium Lead), ProVeg Czechia. Remote or the Czech Republic. Apply by 30 June.
Media Coordinator, Animal Welfare Institute. Remote, Washington, DC preferred. Apply by 6 July.
PhD Position: Transforming Governance through Non-Human Animal Representation, Radboud University. The Netherlands. Apply by 6 July.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Good Growth. Remote, overlap with SE Asia time zones preferred. Apply by 7 July.
Operations Manager, Good Food Institute Japan. Remote, Japan. Apply by 17 July.
Digital Ads Manager, Campaigns Lab. Remote, compatibility with UK time zone essential.
Manager of Community Building, New Roots Institute. Remote, US.
Operations Manager, Good Impressions. Remote, Toronto preferred.
Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, Tälist, Alt Protein Careers, and Probably Good job boards.
💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering
Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.
Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:
EA Opportunities Board - helping aspiring EAs skill build and find impactful positions
Vegan Hacktivists Playground - a community of volunteers offering their time and skills
Hive Slack (that’s us!) - find and take your unique next step in farmed animal advocacy
🔥 Opportunities
Activoice is a new free service that helps campaigners mobilize their audience to take action by sending personalized emails, posting social media comments, writing Google reviews, and more, all powered by AI. Watch this video to learn more. If you’d like a demo or access to the platform, contact Thomas at thomas@activoice.org.
Animal Advocacy Career launches a 3-month guided cohort of its Animal Advocacy Online Course. Apply by 6 July.
Campaigns Lab has free office hours for corporate outreach or campaigning, and marketing and communications queries. Book now.
Lumera, an organization helping to build more sustainable, healthy, and ethical Food Systems in Zambia, has two paid volunteer opportunities:
Rethink Priorities is seeking feedback on its animal welfare work. Fill out this short survey by 29 June.
Reporters for Animals International and Sentient are organizing the Asia Investigations Symposium 2025 in India, around the time and location of AVA Summit India. Reach out at hello@reportersforanimals.org or idan@sentientworld.org for more details.
Some community members are building a startup to develop convenient, nutritionally complete foods for snakes—a humane and practical alternative to feeder rodents. They are looking for a part-time intern or a collaborator with 5–10+ hours per week to spare. Read more here, and reach out at yaqi@goodreptiles.com.
SparkWell is an Anti Entropy program designed to help high-impact nonprofit projects test ideas, develop operational capabilities, and launch as independent entities. It provides a temporary home for a diverse range of promising initiatives, including animal welfare nonprofits. Apply now.
Stray Dog Institute and Vera Flocke are conducting a study to explore how funders in the farmed animal advocacy movement can strengthen how they fund. They are seeking interviewees who are their organization’s primary fundraisers (e.g., executive directors and fundraising leads). Participate in this study by filling out this expression of interest form.
The EA Opportunities Board features opportunities within the effective altruism community that require less time or experience than full-time positions, ideal for individuals new to the community.
Veganuary is looking for trustees. Apply by 14 July.
WorkStream Nonprofit’s Operations Accelerator is a paid program for nonprofit leaders ready to turn operational excellence into mission excellence. Learn more and apply by 30 June.
💰 Funding
The IKI Large Grants are part of Germany’s International Climate Initiative (IKI) — a flagship funding stream dedicated to climate action and biodiversity conservation in the Global South. IKI Large Grants funding per project may range between 5 and 20 million Euros. See the 2025 call here.
The LinkedIn Ad Grants program provides free LinkedIn ads. One of the causes they support is environmental sustainability. Apply by 11 July.
Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes an updated database of current opportunities, and key resources on how to fundraise.
🤝 Upcoming External Events
Access to Justice for Animals in Europe: Towards an ‘Aarhus Convention’ for Animals?, 1 July. Hamburg and online.
The 6th Industrializing Cultivated Meat & Seafood Summit, 2–5 July. Boston.
PHAIR 2025 Animal Advocacy Conference, 2–5 July. Edinburgh.
EAGxNigeria, 11–13 July. Abuja.
AVA Summit Kenya, 17–20 July. Nairobi.
Compassionate Future Summit, 21–25 August. Berlin.
EAGxSãoPaulo, 22–24 August. São Paulo.
Asia for Animals Conference, 25–29 August. Taipei.
CARE 2025, 11–14 September. Warsaw and online.
Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list and the Animal Rights Calendar.
📚 Research
Björn Ólafsson delves into what makes protests work as a tactic and what makes them backfire; he also examines the impact of vegan challenges and pledges.
Researchers outline three ways through which large language models can contribute to animal harm: persuasion and misinformation, social bias, and environmental consequences of deep learning.
Researchers publish a peer-reviewed study, which finds deep-seated cultural norms and strong feelings of disgust present significant obstacles to the widespread adoption of insect-eating in Western cultures.
Researchers reveal the hidden pain of fish during slaughter and offer practical solutions to improve their welfare.
The Culinary Institute of America, Food for Climate League, and the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative publish the 2025 Plant-Forward Opportunity Report on what drives consumers to make plant-forward dining choices, from taste and value to protein content.
The Institute for European Environmental Policy, commissioned by Eurogroup for Animals, launches report titled “Improving animal welfare through the Common Agricultural Policy.”
🎙️ Podcasts
How I Learned to Love Shrimp:
Our Hen House:
Animal Rights Go Viral: Natalie Fulton Reaches Beyond the Echo Chamber
Big Ag’s Immigration Racket | Rising Anxieties
Border Battles & Bank Boycotts: Animal Ag’s Double Crisis | Rising Anxieties
The Hen Report: “A bandaid fix on something rotten to the core” | Vegan Mac & Cheese, Swiss Fur Ban, Melanie Joy’s Fiction Debut
The Hen Report: “It’s about consent and agency” | Slaughter-Free Dairy, Public Lands Crisis, John Robbins’ Legacy
Sentientism:
Just How Big Should "The Moral Circle" Be? - Jeff Sebo
🎉 3 years of Hive Highlights
I sent the 1st edition of the newsletter you’re reading on June 13, 2022. Here is what I wrote about why:
“I am very passionate about community building in animal advocacy and I’d like to start this project to help new and current community members connect, and stay abreast of the latest news, resources, and funding, regardless of whether they already have a job in the movement or not. My aim is to grow the animal advocacy community and help maximise our joint impact by building meaningful connections. As David Nash mentioned in his recent post and also here, there is a gap in effective animal advocacy community building and I aim to address this gap.”
Back then, Hive Highlights was called the Impactful Animal Advocacy Community newsletter (a bit of a mouthful). It felt incredible when 100 people signed up when I sent the first edition.
Now, Hive Highlights is received by 3,506 people and is viewed 9-10k times per month. Readers say deeply insightful and kind things about how it helps them in their advocacy.
Today, I want to sincerely thank you for your support. You have helped Hive Highlights become an important way that we connect and coordinate as a global movement. And your feedback, ideas for improvement, and suggestions for content to include help ensure it remains a movement-first, community focused project for all of us.
Hive is now a global online hub, with our dedicated team supporting an active community of people dedicated to creating impact for farmed animals. But it all began with this newsletter you’re now reading, launched as a scrappy little side project.
In an EA Forum post I wrote 10 months into running this newsletter I gave some advice about pitfalls to avoid when starting new projects: the importance of ensuring it hasn’t already been done, assessing an idea’s potential impact, and getting feedback early. These precautions remain true and essential.
It’s also true that many new projects get started each year, by people (including Hive community members!) figuring out how they can best help farmed animals.
And yet…there are lots of potentially impactful ideas that remain untested. You might already have one in a Google Doc, journal, Slack DM, or just floating in your mind.
If so, I invite you to think about it this way: If not you, who? If not now, when?
That’s exactly how Hive started—and now 3 years on, our global community is here to support your next step to help farmed animals.
Warmly,
Sofia + the Hive team
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