“Cruelty --> Liability: Legal Impact for Chickens’s room for funding & marginal impact” by alene

Thanks to the generous EA community, it looks like Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC), has a real chance to make cruelty a liability. Sometimes it can feel like the burden rests entirely on activists to beg Big Ag companies to give animals mercy. But an animal's owner is the one with the obligation to care for the animal. Animal cruelty and neglect are crimes. So LIC aims for a world where Big Ag companies themselves will proactively ensure their treatment of animals complies with the law. Company executives and general counsels should make sure the company's animals have proper food and clean water. Companies should refrain from animal torture on their own, simply because the law says so. Below I give you a background on who we are, describe our most recent work, discuss an objection to LIC's work, and lay out how we’d use marginal [...] ---Outline:(01:02) I. LIC works to make cruelty a liability.(03:32) II. LIC's most recent work:(05:35) III. An objection to LIC's work(07:17) IV. LIC aims to fill ~$90,000 gap by EOY.The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 11th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kt2XH8htHGEsC3GSc/cruelty-greater-than-liability-legal-impact-for-chickens-s-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.