“Welfare tech should be developed by welfare people” by Aaron Boddy🔸

This is a lightly-edited memo I wrote for the 2025 Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum, which were encouraged to be highly opinionated to generate strategy discussion. It seems strange to me that animal advocates rely on animal ag to come up with the solutions that we want to see. We identify a problem, we look to see what exists in the world, we try to find the best of those things, and then we try to get them implemented. I would like to see welfare-oriented engineers actively develop the tech that we want to see deployed on farms. For example, Shrimp Welfare Project is trying to get new stunners developed, which I'm excited about [1]. But I think there are a lot of other examples that this would work for. In-Ovo sexing seems like another good example of technology that I'm kind of surprised that the animal movement wasn't more [...] The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 29th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JDDAiMoaeTK6WRNpT/welfare-tech-should-be-developed-by-welfare-people --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.