Lewis Bollard

Now, the amount of money spent just on those corporate reforms, that was less than $100 million a year over a couple of years.

And so we're talking about a ratio that is far less than 1 to 10 of $1 per year of animal well-being improved.

I think it's very unique.

And I think the reason this philanthropic opportunity exists is because this area has been systematically neglected, which is to say that most people, when they think of philanthropy, do not think of farmed animals.

You know, it's most people pile into the popular areas like education and healthcare and climate.

And as a result, you end up with these outsized opportunities that no one has taken advantage of.

Like, it's like if the space had billions of dollars in it, as other philanthropic areas do, you would not see opportunities like this.

Yeah.

In that case, we'd love to hear from you.

So people can message me on X or they can reach out to my colleague, Andreas.

That is, Andreas was 1A.

So it is A-N-D-R-E-S at openphilanthropy.org.

And he would love to work with you and I'd love to work with you to help you spend that money as effectively as possible.

Yeah, I think there are a couple of things.

So the first is countries where their protein consumption is rapidly growing and there is not yet a deeply entrenched animal agricultural industry have the ability to do things differently.

And in particular, they have the ability to support alternative protein work without that being politically toxic.

And so, for example, we see China investing very heavily in cultivated meat research.

The majority of patents coming out globally on cultivated meat now are coming out from public universities in China.

So this is a case where just like the US is being overtaken because we have this entrenched industry that is ferociously lobbying.

I also think there's the potential to extend animal welfare policies globally.