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Rethink Priorities’ (RP) Worldview Investigations team has launched new functionalities in its Moral Parliament Tool to help donors make more granular end-of-year giving decisions.
The RP Surveys and Data Analysis team has released reports on how to frame Effective Altruism and new analyses from the 2024 EA Survey on community satisfaction, retention, and mental health.
Meanwhile, the Animal Welfare team published a replication study of the Cumulative Pain Framework — originally developed by the Welfare Footprint Institute — applied to chicken and egg production. They also released an argument for insect sentience, a call to use their new database for evidence-based meat reduction, a review of effective anti-rodenticide advocacy arguments, and an opinion piece opposing rodenticide use in Current Affairs.
Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) has been recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) for the sixth year in a row. WAI earned this recognition because, through original research, strategic grants, and academic outreach, its work demonstrates strong potential to benefit vast numbers of wild animals.
80,000 Hours has launched a new YouTube channel, AI in Context, which recently released a video unpacking Grok’s 16-hour MechaHitler episode.
On The 80,000 Hours Podcast, Luisa interviewed Daniel Kokotajlo about what a hyperspeed robot economy could look like. Rob spoke with Andrew Snyder-Beattie about a low-tech plan to address humanity’s greatest vulnerability and Holden Karnofsky about dozens of ways to make AI development safer.
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) announced their 2025 Charity Recommendations! After months of rigorous evaluation, ACE's researchers have identified high-impact organizations that can do the most good for animals with additional donations.
From November 25 to December 9, donations to ALLFED will be matched 1:1 up to $20,000 by a group of committed supporters. It’s a rare chance to stand with ALLFED — the only organization dedicated entirely to food security in the face of global catastrophic risks. Despite limited funding, ALLFED continues to turn research into practical resilience plans for governments, industries, and communities — helping ensure humanity can feed everyone after disasters such as pandemics, volcanic eruptions, nuclear winter, or abrupt climate change.
The European Commission is running a public consultation to inform the modernization of EU animal welfare laws. Proposed changes could greatly reduce animal suffering by banning cages for egg-laying hens (around 149.2 million animals) and other species, and by ending the routine killing of day-old male chicks (about 330 million animals per year).
The consultation is open to everyone, including non-EU residents. Anima International urges individuals and organizations — especially researchers and professionals in relevant fields — to contribute. For details and submission guidance, visit act.animainternational.org. The submission deadline is December 12th.
On October 17, the Polish parliament voted to ban fur farming, with 339 in favor, 78 against, and 19 abstaining. Having passed all legislative stages, the bill now awaits the President’s approval to become law. In the final weeks before the decision — expected by the end of November — Anima International is maintaining pressure through an investigative photo exhibition in parliament halls and by mobilizing citizens to write to the President.
In Norway, after a two-year campaign by Anima International, supermarket group Coop announced it will phase out most fast-growing chicken breeds and switch to slower-growing ones by early 2027. Coop holds a 30% share of Norway’s retail market.
The campaign against fast-growing chickens also continues in Denmark. This month, during a protest in Copenhagen, Anima delivered 10,000 signatures to the Danish Coop calling for the same change. According to the Welfare Footprint Institute, phasing out fast-growing breeds could prevent 15–100 hours of suffering per bird.
Evidence Action published a piece explaining what disability-adjusted life years are and how they are used to calculate cost-effectiveness, including examples from Evidence Action’s work.
Family Empowerment Media (FEM) is launching a two-year family planning radio campaign in Kaduna, Nigeria, this November. It is also nearing launch of an RCT-evaluated campaign in the first five of 10–12 other Nigerian states, while conducting audience research for a two-year campaign in Niger. FEM has opened fundraising for expansion campaigns in Benin and Togo. Fully funded, the campaigns could reach at least 30 million listeners with life-saving information over the next three years.
Faunalytics has released a new report, How U.S. Voters Respond To Candidates Making Farmed Animal Policy Proposals, which explores how different farmed animal policy proposals shape voter preferences and perceptions in the US. Through a choice-based conjoint experiment, the study disentangles the specific impact of these proposals while accounting for candidate and voter characteristics.
In a companion blog post, Faunalytics reflects on Animal Charity Evaluators’ review of their work, discussing where their perspectives align and diverge, and how research continues to evolve within animal advocacy.
Faunalytics has also updated its Research Library with new articles, including The Ethics Of Using AI To Talk To Animals and Knowing Your Audience: The Key To Effective Animal Advocacy.
Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) recently ran a small-scale trial of ‘chill kill’, a slaughter method intended to reduce the suffering of farmed fish in India. The method isn’t fully humane yet, but FWI aims to make it a much less cruel alternative to air asphyxiation, the common current practice.
From Fauna has reached 1.25M views and 150K likes in under 90 days on their videos about cultivated meat. Its new accounts — @labmeatguy on YouTube, as well as on Instagram and TikTok — teach the public about cultivated meat, helping ensure that as it becomes market-ready, its reputation remains strong and resilient against growing pushback from the meat industry.
GiveWell recently published the final episode of its Beyond the Spreadsheets podcast mini-series. Across five episodes chronicling each day of its leadership team’s trip in Malawi, listeners hear how people are using cash transfers to improve their homes and businesses, how foreign aid cuts are affecting local health clinics, and how community microgrants are helping villages start small businesses. All the episodes , and a photo and short summary of each day, are available on the GiveWell blog.
Earlier this year, GiveWell issued a public request for information inviting organizations to propose water chlorination programmes in high-burden countries. From more than 200 proposals, GiveWell announced a ~$16 million portfolio of 13 pilot programmes across six African countries, involving a range of implementing partners, chlorination devices, and contexts from refugee camps to rural villages. A recent blog post explains how GiveWell selected these grants, what it hopes to learn, and why some pilots might fail (and why that’s okay).
GFI acquired cultivated meat cell lines — typically inaccessible and expensive — and made them freely available to researchers worldwide. This will save academic labs and startups millions in early-stage R&D and dramatically accelerate cultivated meat innovation.
GFI Europe released two new analyses of the European alternative protein research ecosystem — covering research and innovation funding and publication output — adding to the patent landscape analysis launched earlier this year.
GFI Europe published a new blog post exploring how alternative proteins can help tackle inequality — and how philanthropy is translating that potential into real-world progress, from easing pressure on vulnerable communities to improving access to sustainable, nutritious food. Alex Mayers, MD of GFI Europe, posted on the EA Forum about how scale-up is one of the most neglected bottlenecks facing alternative proteins.
GFI SciTech experts in APAC and the US have partnered with the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) to launch a new initiative streamlining the storage and distribution of cultivated meat and seafood cell lines worldwide. The effort aims to reduce in-house cell bank burdens, improve global access, and ensure compliance with quality control and banking standards. A select group of academic and industry stakeholders has been invited to deposit their cell lines with ATCC as a first step.
GFI APAC presented at the inaugural Halal International Seminar, hosted by the Islamic Council of Singapore. The presentation covered cultivated meat science and policy, and emphasized early collaboration between certification bodies, regulators, and producers to build pathways for safe, affordable, and nutritious cultivated meat products for the halal market.
In October, THL released its annual Fair or Fowl report, evaluating 168 global companies on progress toward cage-free egg commitments. In November, 10 companies — including Kellanova (formerly Kellogg Company) — shared updates showing that 7.9 million hens in their supply chains are now cage-free. THL estimates these efforts have spared about 300,000 hens from suffering.
