“Shrimp Welfare Project’s 2030 Vision & Absorbency Plans” by Aaron Boddy🔸
Introduction ~440 billion shrimps are farmed each year [1]. This is over 5x the total number of all farmed land animals put together [2]. Many farmed shrimps suffer from conditions that can and should be addressed, such as poor water quality, high stocking densities, inhumane slaughter methods, and avoidable mutilations (such as eyestalk ablation) [3]. Shrimp Welfare Project is an organisation of people who believe that shrimps are capable of suffering and deserve our moral consideration [4]. We aim to cost-effectively reduce the suffering of billions of farmed shrimps. This post is essentially an expanded version of our 2025 Funding Proposal. If you want the TL;DR version of this post, I'd recommend reading that. (Shr)Impact and Vision Shrimp Welfare Project has four workstreams, two of which we consider our Core or Foundational workstreams - those are Corporate Engagement and Farmer Support. Two more are relatively new, but we [...] ---Outline:(00:12) Introduction(01:01) (Shr)Impact and Vision(01:39) Core: Corporate Engagement(02:05) Problem (and Context)(03:12) Strategy(06:01) Achievements(06:31) 2030 Vision(08:24) Core: Farmer Engagement(08:45) Problem (and Context)(09:36) Strategy(11:42) Achievements(13:51) 2030 Vision(16:52) New: Research & Policy(17:16) Problem (and Context)(18:26) Strategy(19:35) 2030 Vision(22:17) New: Precision Welfare(22:42) Problem (and Context)(23:50) Strategy(25:15) 20(26) Vision(26:49) Absorbency Plans(27:26) ~$50k-250k+(27:31) Scaling the Humane Slaughter Initiative (High)(28:37) Traceability (High)(29:11) Shrimp Welfare industry Marketing Campaign, Conference, or Webinars (Low)(29:52) ~$250k-1M(29:57) Large Stunner commitment (Medium)(30:40) New Stunners (Medium)(31:00) ~$1M+(31:04) Creating Market Incentives or, Shrimp Stunning Credits (High)(31:48) Supporting UsThe original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 2nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ztqzt4BWMPZW5ECfP/shrimp-welfare-project-s-2030-vision-and-absorbency-plans --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.