“Poll: Wild animal vs Farm Animal welfare” by Toby Tremlett🔹

The (new) Center for Wild Animal Welfare, the Wild Animal Initiative, the EA Animal Welfare Fund and Animal Charity Evaluators have all been in the Donation Election's top 3 candidates this week. How should we compare between them? I don't have a settled take on this question, and I won't be giving an argument (at least initially). I'm looking forward to reading your takes. Some considerations: There are many more wild animals than farmed animals, especially if we count invertebrates. It's likely less than $10M is spent on wild animal welfare annually, whereas around $200M is spent on farm animal welfare. (These are both extremely low compared to the size of the problem). It's often argued that we shouldn't get involved in wild animal welfare because we don't know what kind of complex ecological effects we might cause. Unfortunately, this is true of most things, including farm animal welfare.  I've framed the debate around a 'marginal $5K' because, at time of writing, that's roughly what is at stake if an organisation is in/ not in the top three Donation Election candidates by the end of the week. A marginal $5K should go to:Place your vote or [...] --- First published: December 2nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4eCZjo6RswduELEFw/poll-wild-animal-vs-farm-animal-welfare --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.