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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success.

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We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success.

forum.effectivealtruism.org

David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago
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How we started our own EA charity (and why we decided to wrap up) — EA Forum
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A retrospective on six months of work focused on improving slaughter conditions in Mediterranean aquaculture.
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    well I mean at least they spent a reasonable amount of money. It is very easy to see hundreds to millions of K sinked to projects with similar complexity and get not much in return.

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      the reasonable amount of money on such a non-project is closer to $0

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        @dgerard Exactly. Fish deserve whatever suffering comes their way.

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          fish know what they did

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          @grumpybozo @dgerard it’s ok to eat fish, they don’t have any feelings

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