Sentences with phrase «animal advocacy interventions»

For this reason, estimates of when cultured alternatives1 will be available at similar prices to farmed animal products meaningfully affect the prioritization of animal advocacy interventions.

We may, for example, systematically overestimate the benefits of animal advocacy interventions.

They are highly uncertain, in part because there is still very little evidence about the effects of most animal advocacy interventions.

We provided funding for three projects relevant to specific animal advocacy interventions, namely, a humane education field experiment, an experiment testing the effects of real and virtual contact with farmed animals, and a series of focus groups and survey experiments to understand consumer attitudes towards and willingness - to - pay for cultured meat.

Get advice about volunteering for high - impact charities or choosing effective career paths, and dive into our research reports on the efficacy of different animal advocacy interventions.

Three projects in this round are relevant to specific animal advocacy interventions.

Get advice about volunteering for high - impact charities or choosing effective career paths, and dive into our research reports on the efficacy of different animal advocacy interventions.

They work with corporations to increase the availability of animal product alternatives and have developed a «restaurant report card» to score the top 100 chain restaurants according to their plant - based options.22 In general, we think that corporate outreach is a relatively effective animal advocacy intervention, though we are less certain of the effects of promoting plant - based options in restaurants than we are of the effects of working with corporations to implement welfare reforms.

Not exact matches

We are happy to support the effective implementation of those interventions, but we also believe that engaging in a wider range of promising tactics may increase the animal advocacy movement's chance of success.

Several EA Global attendees expressed concern about the level of evidence the animal advocacy community has so far compiled on which interventions work best.

Interventions should be implemented by at least one animal advocacy group working in a high - potential - impact area (for instance, farm animal advocacy or wild animal suffering) to be considered.

ACE reviews evidence on the efficacy of interventions in animal advocacy in order to help determine which are likely to be most useful.

Such research could include both research on how concern for wild animals could be promoted throughout the animal advocacy movement and society, and more technical research on the experiences of animals in the wild and the value of various interventions that could help them.

We also consider evidence directly connected to the intervention in question (for instance, studies of a particular implementation in an animal advocacy context) as well as evidence more distantly related (for instance, from general psychological studies or from sociological work done on other movements for social change).

«For many animal owners, getting basic resources for their pets can be difficult, so we want to do all we can to help, especially as winter approaches,» said Colleen Doherty, manager of the ASPCA's Cruelty Intervention Advocacy team, which staffed and promoted the event.

[9] Similarly, the No Kill Advocacy Center has stated that euthanasia is supportable only when an animal is suffering from severe, unremitting pain that is beyond medicine's ability to care for or manage despite prompt, necessary, and comprehensive medical intervention.

Mr. Bershadker also oversaw the development of the ASPCA's Cruelty Intervention Advocacy program, an initiative to help protect companion animals in danger of potential abuse or neglect by addressing the root causes of animal cruelty and helping establish sustainable assistance.

Filed Under: Animal Advocacy Research Fund Tagged With: funding opportunities, interventions, movement building

The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

Since these student activists may develop valuable skills and continue working in the animal advocacy movement in the long term, we believe that campus organizing is a potentially high - impact intervention.

We would like to see deeper critical engagement from THL with regard to important questions in effective animal advocacy, such as how interventions should be prioritized — as well as smaller questions, such as the direct implications of certain study findings.

The mission of Pets Alive is to improve the lives of companion animals everywhere by any means possible, including rescue, adoption, advocacy, collaboration, intervention and education.

The Cruelty Intervention Advocacy (CIA) program, with efforts in New York City and Los Angeles, was created to address situations where, without services and support, animals are at - risk of becoming cruelty victims or being relinquished to already overburdened shelters.

Humane Law Enforcement / Cruelty Intervention Advocacy / NYPD The ASPCA - NYPD partnership began citywide in January, 2014 when NYPD took the lead role in responding to all animal cruelty complaints in New York City, while the ASPCA expanded its direct care for animal cruelty victims by providing critical support including forensic evaluations, medical treatment, behavior assessments, housing and placement, as well as backup legal support and training.

The plan covers policy, human and animal interventions, awareness raising and advocacy, capacity building, and the respective resources needed for elimination of the disease in countries still suffering from rabies.

EAG IV was expected to develop a review of the bacterial zoonoses transmitted via companion animals, an overview of the existing surveillance and legislation on bacterial diseases transmitted by companion animals, and a list of key areas for improvement in research surveillance, education, advocacy and intervention.

Serving over 5,000 companion animals annually through direct intervention and many more through advocacy, the Delaware Humane Association continues to promote the humane values of protection, care, and compassion for all living things by providing Special Programs, Humane Education and Outreach.

During Mr. Bershadker's tenure, the ASPCA also launched the Cruelty Intervention Advocacy program, a ground - breaking new initiative to help protect companion animals that are in danger of potential abuse or neglect, helping hundreds of New York City's animals in jeopardy of becoming cruelty victims.

At the ASPCA, we call it Cruelty Intervention Advocacy (CIA), a holistic intervention approach that takes into account how the societal challenges pet owners often face — including poverty, housing restrictions, lack of transportation, and limited resources — profoundly affect the animals underIntervention Advocacy (CIA), a holistic intervention approach that takes into account how the societal challenges pet owners often face — including poverty, housing restrictions, lack of transportation, and limited resources — profoundly affect the animals underintervention approach that takes into account how the societal challenges pet owners often face — including poverty, housing restrictions, lack of transportation, and limited resources — profoundly affect the animals under their care.

Our mission is to improve the lives of companion animals everywhere by any means possible, including rescue, adoption, advocacy, collaboration, intervention and education.