Open Philanthropy: Farm Animal Welfare Fund
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This is Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare fund page, not directly related to AI safety. It describes grantmaking strategy for ending factory farming, including funding Rethink Priorities, which also conducts AI safety research.
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This is Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare program page, outlining their strategy to end factory farming through advocacy, scientific research, global movement building, and alternative protein development. The page describes grantee wins such as cage-free reforms and fish welfare standards. It is tangentially related to AI safety only insofar as Open Philanthropy funds both animal welfare and AI safety work.
Key Points
- •Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare fund focuses on four areas: advocacy, scientific research, global movement building, and alternative proteins.
- •Grantees have secured commitments from 3,000+ companies to go cage-free, resulting in 250 million more cage-free hens.
- •The fund supports welfare standards for farmed fish, with three major certifiers adopting new standards affecting ~4 billion fish.
- •Nearly $1 billion in government and advocate funding has been mobilized for alternative protein research and infrastructure.
- •The fund is managed by Lewis Bollard and a team of program officers at Open Philanthropy.
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Farm Animal Welfare
We support efforts to end factory farming and improve the lives of animals confined on factory farms.
Contents
About the Fund
Grantee Wins
Research & Updates
Featured Grants
About the Fund
Team
Lewis Bollard
Managing Director
Amanda Hungerford
Senior Program Officer
Martin Gould
Program Officer
Abhi Kumar
Associate Program Officer
Emma Buckland
Associate Program Officer
Harshdeep Singh
Associate Program Officer
Michelle Lavery
Associate Program Officer
Jia Li Leonard
Senior Program Associate
Julia Trabert
Program Operations Associate
Partners
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Tens of billions of animals live in awful conditions on factory farms, but only a tiny fraction of total giving goes toward helping them. This means there are many promising and underfunded ways to help farm animals, and we aim to find the most impactful opportunities among them.
Our strategy focuses on four key areas:
Advocating for reforms to industrial farming systems. We fund advocacy to end the worst factory farm practices on land and sea. Our priorities include eliminating battery cages for hens, reforming the genetics of chickens raised for meat, and setting welfare standards for farmed fish.
Funding scientific research that could reduce the suffering of farm animals. We fund research to accelerate the development of new humane technologies, like in ovo sexing to end the killing of male chicks in the egg industry.
Expanding the global farm animal welfare movement . We fund work to build the global movement of people seeking corporate and legislative reforms for farm animals, especially in emerging economies, where the majority of the world’s farmed animals live.
Accelerating the development of alternatives to animal products. We fund advocacy to accelerate the development and adoption of plant-based and cultivated products that can reduce growing demand for factory-farmed meat, dairy and eggs.
More information about our team:
How to become a grantee, and what it’s like to be one
Our bimonthly newsletter on the most interesting challenges and opportunities in the fight against factory farming.
Grantee Wins
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Cage-free reform
Thanks to campaigns largely led by our grantees, over 3,000 companies globally have committed to stop using eggs from hens confined to cages. As a result, 250 million more hens are cage-free in Europe and the U.S. than in 2013.
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