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Suppose you had a marginal $100 and cared principally about animal welfare as a cause. Where (to what specific charity) would you, personally, donate it and why?

What if it was a marginal $10,000? Is there a different third (or more) answer at some point between $100 and $10,000?

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Agreed, Joey:

I Fermi estimate the past cost-effectiveness of Shrimp Welfare Project’s (SWP’s) Humane Slaughter Initiative (HSI) is 431 DALY/$, which is:

  • 28.7 times my estimate for the (marginal) cost-effectiveness of corporate campaigns for chicken welfare, such as the one supported by The Humane League (THL).
  • 43.4 k times my estimate for the cost-effectiveness of GiveWell’s top charities.
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Tejas Subramaniam
Why do you think excruciating pain is 10k as intense as disabling pain? If I use these conversion factors (p. 30) instead, chicken welfare campaigns seem to win. 
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Vasco Grilo🔸
Hi Tejas, The guesses from Laura Duffy you link to say exruciating pain is 60 to 150 times as intense as fully healthy life ("1 year of excruciating pain = 60 to 150 DALYs"). These imply 9.6 min (= 24*60/150) to 24 min (= 24*60/60) of excruciating pain would be needed to neutralise 1 day of fully healthy life. Do you think this is reasonable? Excruciating pain is defined as follows by Welfare Footprint Project (WFP; emphasis mine): Some more clarification from Cynthia Schuck-Paim, WFP's scientific director: Intuitively, I feel like 1 s of excruciating pain per day every day would make my (roughly fully healthy) life neutral, supposing it did not have any effects outside that second. As I say in my cost-effectiveness analysis of HSI:

Good Food Institute (GFI), since it has made significant strides, as highlighted in my video based on their report.

In summary, some of GFI's notable accomplishments include:

1. Receiving President Biden support in setting alternative protein as a focus area
2. Raising awareness to alternative protein at the UN's COP27 climate conference
3. Collaborating with Upside Foods on chicken substitutes
4. Awarding $4 million in research grants

These achievements demonstrate GFI's impact on advancing sustainable food solutions.

My answer would remain the same for small and large donations.

We shouldn't let the "Drop in the ocean" mentality discourage us as much as it often does. Whether you accomplish something on your own and can claim full credit, or as part of a group where you're one of many contributors, what truly matters is that you achieve your goal.

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