The Repugnant Conclusion of Effective Animal Altruism | Science of Activism

The Vegan Report by Rayane Laddi

Episode notes

For today's episode, we are talking about the limits of Effective Animal Altruism with Vera Flocke. She exposes those limits in a recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ethics titled: The Repugnant Conclusion of Effective Animal Altruism.

Vera Flocke has a PhD in philosophy from New York University and served for a few years as assistant professor at Indiana University. She is now the founder of Food System Stewards, which helps provide fundraising support to animal rights nonprofits.

Read Vera's paper here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984711

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