Leah Edgerton and Manja Gärtner on Animal Charity Evaluation

Abstract

Leah Edgerton and Manja Gärtner, in their interview with Hear This Idea, discuss the mission of Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) in promoting effective ways to combat animal suffering. They prioritize factory farming due to its immense scale and underrepresentation in charitable donations. The article highlights challenges in evaluating animal charities due to the lack of research and the difficulty of measuring outcomes. ACE recommends charities based on criteria such as program impact, cost-effectiveness, leadership, and adaptability. The article also explores the “meat paradox,” the dissociation between people’s concern for animal suffering and their meat consumption, and the role of Effective Altruism in shaping the animal advocacy movement. It emphasizes the importance of research and the need to support the “health of the movement” for sustained impact. – AI-generated abstract.