The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism.

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Notes

1 Effective Altruism has donated approximately USD$10million: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare#payout-stats.

2 See further https://animalcharityevaluators.org.

3 See https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus.

4 See further https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants?sort=round; https://animalcharityevaluators.org/transparency/financials/#:∼:text=From%202014%E2%80%932021%2C%20we%20estimate,on%20our%20programs%20and%20operations; and https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus.

5 See https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/recommended-charities.

6 See https://animalcharityevaluators.org/transparency/financials/#:∼:text=From%202014%E2%80%932021%2C%20we%20estimate,on%20our%20programs%20and%20operations.

7 P Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2016) 8.

8 See https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-consequentialism.

9 P Singer, The Most Good You Can Do—How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2015) vii.

10 Ibid 3–4.

11 See https://animalcharityevaluators.org/research/methodology/our-use-of-cost-effectiveness-estimates/#introduction.

12 See https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org.

13 See https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism.

14 Singer (n 9) 86; Centre for Effective Altruism (n 12).

15 GK. Bhambra, ‘Colonial Global Economy: Towards a Theoretical Reorientation of Political Economy’ (2021) 28 Review of International Political Economy 307; K Mickelson, ‘The Maps of International Law: Perceptions of Nature in the Classification of Territory’ (2014) 27 Leiden Journal of International Law 621; H Charlesworth, The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000); G Albrecht, ‘The Extinction of Rights and the Extantion of Gheds’ (2020) 29 Griffith Law Review 513.

16 Animal Charity Evaluators (n2).

17 K Torella, ‘Were the Impossible and Beyond Burgers a Fad, or Is Plant-Based Meat Here to Stay?,’ Vox, 17 April 2023, https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/4/17/23682232/impossible-beyond-plant-based-meat-sales; J Cresswell, ‘Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries,’ New York Times, 21 November 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/business/beyond-meat-industry.html.

18 See for example Halteman’s essay at p 81.