“Shrimp Welfare Project’s 2030 Vision & Absorbency Plans” by Aaron Boddy🔸

Introduction

~440 billion shrimps are farmed each year [1]. This is over 5x the total number of all farmed land animals put together [2].

Many farmed shrimps suffer from conditions that can and should be addressed, such as poor water quality, high stocking densities, inhumane slaughter methods, and avoidable mutilations (such as eyestalk ablation) [3].

Shrimp Welfare Project is an organisation of people who believe that shrimps are capable of suffering and deserve our moral consideration [4].

We aim to cost-effectively reduce the suffering of billions of farmed shrimps.

This post is essentially an expanded version of our 2025 Funding Proposal.
If you want the TL;DR version of this post, I'd recommend reading that.

(Shr)Impact and Vision

Shrimp Welfare Project has four workstreams, two of which we consider our Core or Foundational workstreams - those are Corporate Engagement and Farmer Support. Two more are relatively new, but we [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) Introduction

(01:01) (Shr)Impact and Vision

(01:39) Core: Corporate Engagement

(02:05) Problem (and Context)

(03:12) Strategy

(06:01) Achievements

(06:31) 2030 Vision

(08:24) Core: Farmer Engagement

(08:45) Problem (and Context)

(09:36) Strategy

(11:42) Achievements

(13:51) 2030 Vision

(16:52) New: Research & Policy

(17:16) Problem (and Context)

(18:26) Strategy

(19:35) 2030 Vision

(22:17) New: Precision Welfare

(22:42) Problem (and Context)

(23:50) Strategy

(25:15) 20(26) Vision

(26:49) Absorbency Plans

(27:26) ~$50k-250k+

(27:31) Scaling the Humane Slaughter Initiative (High)

(28:37) Traceability (High)

(29:11) Shrimp Welfare industry Marketing Campaign, Conference, or Webinars (Low)

(29:52) ~$250k-1M

(29:57) Large Stunner commitment (Medium)

(30:40) New Stunners (Medium)

(31:00) ~$1M+

(31:04) Creating Market Incentives or, Shrimp Stunning Credits (High)

(31:48) Supporting Us

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

May 2nd, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ztqzt4BWMPZW5ECfP/shrimp-welfare-project-s-2030-vision-and-absorbency-plans

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