EA Cause Area Series: A120

​High-Impact Animal Welfare & Non-profit Entrepreneurship

​EA Cause Area Discovery Series: A120

​📍 Room: ETH HG E 41
🎙️ Format: Intro talks followed by interactive Q&A & discussion
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🍿 Snacks & drinks provided.

​Over 80 billion land animals are raised in factory farms each year, including 80 million broiler chickens in Switzerland alone. Yet the entire global movement to improve farmed animal welfare receives less than $300 million per year in philanthropy, with over 95% of animal charity donations going to pet shelters instead. This makes farmed animal advocacy one of the most neglected and high-leverage cause areas in the world.

​In the second edition of our Cause Area Discovery Series, we sit down with co-founders of A120 (named after Art. 120 of the Swiss Constitution on the dignity of living beings). We will explore how they built a new advocacy organization from scratch and how targeted corporate campaigns push major retailers like Migros to end the worst factory farming practices.

​🎙️ Guest Speakers

• ​Roberta Davico (co-founder A120)

• ​Lucien Schläpfer (co-founder A120)

​📖 Additional Reading Material

• ​A120 & The Swiss Broiler Campaign: A120 Official Website & Background on Ross 308 (5 min)

• ​Cause Area Evidence: Why Farmed Animal Welfare is Vast, Neglected, and Tractable by 80,000 Hours (10 min)

​👥 Who This Is For

​Whether you care about animal protection, are curious about starting a high-impact non-profit, or are completely new to Effective Altruism, everyone is welcome. No background knowledge required!