How I Learned to Love Shrimp
How I Learned To Love Shrimp is a podcast showcasing innovative and impactful ways to help animals and build the animal advocacy movement.
We talk to experts about a variety of topics: animal rights, animal welfare, alternative proteins, the future of food, and much more. Whether it's political change, protest, technological innovation or grassroots campaigns, we aim to cover it all with deep dives we release every two weeks.
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How I Learned to Love Shrimp
Cameron Meyer Shorb making the case for wild animals and why we should care about their suffering.
Cameron is the executive director of Wild Animal Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of animals by accelerating the growth of wild animal welfare science.
In this episode Cameron helps us to understand the vast topic of wild animal suffering. Cameron makes the compelling case for why we should invest resources into understanding how we can reduce wild animal suffering responsibly with data-backed interventions, improving the overall well-being of wild animals.
We talk through the importance of Wild Animal Initiative’s research in this area, their grant-making arm which is enabling the research field in this area to grow and the future plans for their work.
Relevant links to things mentioned throughout the show:
- Wild Animal Initiative website
- Animal Ethics website
- Cricket Science Game and WAI's blog post explaining the project
- WAI blog post:
- Join the WAI researcher community
- Twitter: @forwildanimals
- Heather Browning & Walter Veit: Positive wild animal welfare paper
- Heather Browning talk on the above paper
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- WAI Newsletter sign up
- WAI Donate
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