Hi there! Over the past couple of weeks, our team has been busy hitting the road, and it was wonderful to connect with so many of you at global conferences. Back at our desks, we’ve packed this edition with exciting updates. Let’s get into it!

Most popular link

The most popular link from Hive Highlights early October 2026 was Elevate Philanthropy’s Fieldshaper Program, a one-year Grantmaker-in-Residence role that puts residents in charge of $1,000,000 in grant capital. Deadline now extended to 30 October.

Our top 3 picks for this edition

• Kickstarting for Good and I (Sofia) open a Request for Proposals for movement infrastructure projects backed by $200,000 in development grants. Apply by 30 November.

• Who Let the Docs Out opens applications for its documentary fund, offering grants up to $50,000 (per production stage) for film projects aiming to recalibrate audiences’ relationships with animals and food systems. Apply by 13 November.

• The World Health Organization signs a multi-year partnership with Good Food Institute Asia Pacific to produce the first WHO report on the role of plant-based and cultivated meat in food systems.

— Sofia and Hannah, your Hive Highlights editorial team 🧡

In today’s edition:

1. Movement news

2. Jobs & Opportunities

3. Partner Spotlight: New animal visuals delivered to your inbox with We Animals Stock Alerts

4. Resources

5. Hive updates

🐖 Animal Welfare

• Animal Justice reports that Canada slaughtered a record 882 million land animals for food in 2025, when farmed animals remain without federal legal protections.

• Björn unpacks the impact of Ozempic and GLP-1s on meat consumption and its implications for animal advocacy.

• Ronen Bar explores the potential of desire-modifying drugs to reduce meat consumption.

• Seth Ariel Green argues that effective altruism has not abandoned diet change or animal liberation, pushing back on recent claims of a movement-wide shift away from systemic change.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• Bruce Friedrich argues alternative proteins are the best scalable way to end factory farming.

• Food Standards Australia New Zealand approves Paris-based Gourmey’s cell-cultured duck biomass as a food ingredient, pending ministerial review, clearing the way for use in products such as foie gras and pâté.

• Time Magazine names Beyond Meat’s faba bean mince, Leaft Foods’s Rubisco protein, and AMSilk’s microbial silk among its Best Inventions of 2026.

• The World Sustainability Organization makes a 30% plant-based menu threshold a mandatory condition for its Sustainable Restaurants certification, affecting more than 500 restaurants worldwide.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• The European Food Safety Authority outlines gaps in scientific preparedness and calls for faster, fit-for-purpose risk assessments to keep pace with novel food innovations like cultivated meat and precision fermentation.

• The Netherlands-based Ministry of Future Affairs launches a novel food regulatory sandbox to provide pre-submission approval advice for innovations like cultivated meat.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• Campaigns Lab launches its "Women & Non-binary Campaigners Fighting for Animals" series. The first episodes feature Stella Baptiste and Chelsie Schadt sharing advocacy journeys, campaign advice, and life lessons.

• Fish Welfare Initiative shares a transparency update on data fabrication at one of its farm program sites in India, retracting affected data, adjusting impact estimates, and upgrading its verification protocols.

🎲 Other

• I (Sofia) argue that in today's job market, becoming visible and building relationships matters more than polished applications, and share the concrete plan I would follow to land a role in animal advocacy.

💼 Jobs

• Legal Researcher and Research Associate — Field Entomologist, MetricFauna Research Institute. Kenya. Apply by 30 October.

• Data Analyst, MetricFauna Research Institute. Remote, global. Apply by 30 October.

• Chief of Staff / Managing Director, Director of Operations, Program Launch Lead / Director, and Recruitment Manager, High Impact Professionals. Remote, global. Apply by 1 November.

• Head of Operations, Asia Accountability Initiative. Remote, global. Apply by 6 November.

• Grant Operations Manager, Animal Charity Evaluators. Remote, US. Apply by 8 November.

• OWA Member Support Specialist, The Humane League. Remote, select countries. Apply by 10 November.

• Strategic Advisor on Food Security, ProVeg International. Remote, global. Apply by 12 November.

• Operations Manager, We Animals. Remote, Canada. Apply by 19 November.

• Director of Digital Campaigns, International Council for Animal Welfare. Remote, global. Apply by 30 November.

• Managing Editor, Sentient Media. Remote, US.

• Program Coordinator, New Roots Institute. Remote, US.

• Research Lead / Manager, Aquatic Welfare for African Sustainability and Health. Remote, global.

💡 Job hunting? Four ways to make it easier

1. Explore Hive’s free resources on Jobs and Careers

2. For new positions daily, join the #job-posting channel in Hive Slack.

3. Check out other job boards, including Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good.

4. Consider skilled volunteering to build your context, connections, and skills. Many volunteering opportunities are fully remote. Find them on the EA Opportunities Board, Flockwork, and in Hive Slack.

🔥 Opportunities

• Ministry of Future Affairs opens applications for New Foods RegLab, a cross-border pilot helping novel food firms improve their dossiers and accelerate science-based EU regulatory approvals. Apply by 30 November.

💰 Funding

• Science for Animal Welfare opens applications for its £250,000 Centenary Research Award, funding a 2–4 year project addressing a major or fundamental animal welfare challenge. Apply by 31 December.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• FPP x CMS Amsterdam (Future of Protein Production & Cultured Meat Symposium), 4–5 November. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• 5th Animal Welfare Conference Indonesia, 4 December. Jakarta, Indonesia.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

Stock Alerts: New Animal Visuals Delivered to Your Inbox

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Stock Alerts is We Animals’ concise, no-fluff monthly email designed to help busy advocates, journalists, and NGO professionals discover the latest animal visuals available for download.

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📚 Research

• Animal Partisan releases an investigative report revealing nearly 100,000 farmed animals are used annually in agricultural experiments across ten US universities, highlighting severe gaps in welfare oversight.

• Good Food Institute Europe shares insights on China’s rapid biomanufacturing scale-up for alternative proteins, warning that Europe’s strong research base risks being left behind without targeted industrial investments.

• Researchers analyze 36 studies on hybrid meat consumption, finding research heavily skewed toward burgers and mushroom blends in the US and Western Europe, and outlining key strategies to drive consumer acceptance.

• Takuya Akiyama analyzes cage-free egg data in Japan, revealing that low sales stem more from limited awareness and retail availability than disinterest.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Fork The System

  • Caroline Cotto on why taste is plant-based’s defining problem

• Future of Foods Interviews

  • Cultivating ‘Structured Meat’ at Scale - Kalvotech

• How I Learned to Love Shrimp

  • Janet Helms on what McDonald’s is doing on animal welfare

  • Thomas Manandhar-Richardson on why animal advocates need to use AI more (and how)

• Our Hen House

  • Grassroots Vegan Activism That Works: Inside Vegan Outreach’s Vegan Chef Challenge

  • Grassroots Win for Animals: How Southampton Animal Action Stopped Brittany Ferries’ Live Animal Exports

📱 Hive Connect Latin America: Taller de marketing digital con causa

Want to build an impactful Instagram campaign from scratch? Join us for a workshop with Jessica and Laura from Generación Vegana! They’ll be sharing lessons, tools, and examples from eight years of campaigning—including the secrets behind reaching 25 million views on social media. 29 October (held in Spanish), RSVP now.

✈️ Hive around the globe

Over the past couple of weeks, our team has been busy hitting the road and connecting with advocates at conferences all over the world!

Kevin and I (Sofia) hosted a networking session at EA Global: NYC, while our Communications and Events Officer, Nazlı, hosted a dedicated Farmed Animal Welfare meetup and spent the day networking at the EA Istanbul Summit. Our Asia Ambassador, Anita, represented Hive at the AVA Thailand Summit, where she also hosted a networking session. Special kudos to our wonderful Pollinators (Hive volunteers), Hannah and Yulu, for helping Anita run our booth! We love seeing our community in action.

Here’s to your impact for farmed animals

We hope you found this edition useful. We’ll reach out again in a few weeks with the next edition of Hive Highlights. Thanks for reading!

— Sofia and Hannah, your Hive Highlights editorial team.

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Welcome to the early October edition of Hive Highlights! This edition features 3 philanthropic opportunities—2 open grant rounds and 1 chance to become a grantmaker! We’re also hosting several community events this month—scroll to the end to find out more. Let’s dive in!

Most popular link

The most popular link from Hive Highlights late September 2026 was for Bruce Friedrich’s article arguing that the effective altruism animal movement has made a strategic error by moving away from animal liberation and diet change advocacy. We recommend also reading the comment section.

Our top 3 picks for this edition

• Animal Charity Evaluators opens applications for its Movement Grants, offering funding for promising, under-resourced animal advocacy projects worldwide (with a focus on Africa and Asia). Apply by 18 October.

• Fieldshaper accepts applications for its grantmaker program, where participants receive a $125,000 annual stipend to steward $1,000,000 in philanthropic funding across cause areas including farmed animal welfare. Apply by 30 October.

• Strategic Animal Funding Circle opens grant applications for scalable animal welfare interventions, prioritizing early-stage organizations (<4 years operating history) or those with annual budgets under $500k. Apply by 1 November.

— Sofia and Hannah, your Hive Highlights editorial team 🧡

In today’s edition:

1. Movement news

2. Jobs & Opportunities

3. Resources

4. Hive updates

🐖 Animal Welfare

• Fish Welfare Initiative shares findings from multiple “chill kill” trials evaluating the method’s feasibility and practical implementation for improved fish slaughter.

• Lewis Bollard shares 40 takes on vegan advocacy, effective altruism, factory farming and more.

• Sentient Media maps every factory farm in Iowa and releases the data publicly, alongside a survey addressing gaps in awareness about the state’s factory farming industry.

• Tom Billington and Henning Peters introduce a five-stage evidence pipeline to help the animal welfare movement systematically test interventions before scaling them for mass adoption.

• Voters For Animal Rights founder Allie Taylor joins the NYC Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare as its new director.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• A coalition of 28 food companies and organizations urges the EU to reject a proposed extension of the plant-based labelling ban, warning it will undercut the bloc’s protein strategy.

• A new UK survey finds that 95% of Brits recognize that plant-based products don’t contain meat, adding to evidence against labelling restrictions.

• India’s SRM Institute of Hotel Management will dedicate one-fifth of its chef training curriculum to plant-based cooking from 2027, following faculty training delivered by Humane World for Animals India.

• The European Food Safety Authority names cultivated meat and precision fermentation as priority areas where it must build in-house expertise before novel food applications arrive.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• Sentient Media reports that the Trump administration’s animal welfare agenda expands protections for some animals but still excludes almost all of the 10 billion land animals farmed for food in the US each year.

• The Dutch House of Representatives votes to fold a proposed Action Plan for More Plant-Based Food into the government’s upcoming nitrogen package and national food strategy.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• Animal Charity Evaluators:

  • Announces its latest Movement Grants round, awarding $1.13 million across 21 projects and organizations to reduce animal suffering worldwide.

  • Launches a searchable database collecting thousands of studies and reports on farmed and wild animal advocacy research.

  • Reflects on what it learned after a one-year trial of a 4-day, 32-hour workweek.

✨ Other

• Dyllan_han argues that the ethical case against speciesism has direct implications for how we should expect and design superintelligent AI to treat humans and other animals.

• I (Sofia) share 20 tips for landing a high-impact job.

• Naveeth Basheer argues that more founders should relocate to their country of operations, finding that moving from London to Accra cut costs enough to fund roughly one year of operations at Aquatic Welfare for African Sustainability and Health.

• Tobias Leenaert argues that veganism as a boycott strategy may be making animal advocacy harder than it needs to be.

💼 Jobs

• Philanthropy Officer, The Humane League. Remote, US. Apply by 19 October.

• Senior Research Manager - Animal Welfare, Rethink Priorities. Remote, global. Apply by 19 October.

• Associate Executive Director, New Roots Institute. Remote, US. Apply by 20 October.

• Digital Resource Manager, Faunalytics. Remote, Canada or US. Apply by 25 October.

• Programme Manager and Research Analyst, Animal Advocacy Africa. Remote, global. Apply by 25 October.

• Science Communications Officer/Lead and Scientific Lead, Welfare Footprint Project. Remote. Apply by 26 October.

• Programme Coordinator and Partnerships Manager. Animal Advocacy Africa. Remote, global. Apply by 22 November.

• Communications Sr. Lead, Sinergia Animal. Remote, Indonesia.

• Digital Marketing Coordinator, New Roots Institute. Remote, US.

• Sustainable Food Sales Manager, Lever Foundation. Remote, China.

• Sustainable Food Sales Manager, Lever Foundation. Remote, Vietnam.

• Sustainable Food Supply Chain Engagement Manager, Lever Foundation. Remote, India.

• Sustainable Food Supply Chain Engagement Manager, Lever Foundation. Remote, Vietnam.

💡 Job hunting? Four ways to make it easier

1. Explore Hive’s free resources on Jobs and Careers

2. For new positions daily, join the #job-posting channel in Hive Slack.

3. Check out other job boards, including Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good.

4. Consider skilled volunteering to build your context, connections, and skills. Many volunteering opportunities are fully remote. Find them on the EA Opportunities Board, Flockwork, and in Hive Slack.

🔥 Opportunities

• MBOLD offers the Bold Growth Mentorship Program for protein companies anywhere in the world planning to enter or expand in the US market. Apply by 6 November.

💰 Funding

• Fish Welfare Initiative launches a funding call, offering grants of ~$10,000 to ~$50,000 to develop and test novel interventions for farmed fish welfare in India. Submit your proposal by 18 November.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• The Animals, Technology and Law Conference, 23–25 October. Washington, D.C. US.

• Animal Welfare Conference Indonesia, 4–5 December. Jakarta, Indonesia.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• Animetrics finds that young adults in Türkiye view plant-based diets more negatively than older cohorts, with skepticism driven primarily by doubts about health (64%) and affordability (56%).

• Faunalytics finds that digital advocacy content evokes strong emotions but doesn’t shift behavior, and some even backfires with usually allied audiences.

• Good Food Institute India explores perceptions of cultivated meat among younger, educated Indian non-vegetarian consumers from four metro cities.

• Researchers suggest that halving red and processed meat consumption in the UK and replacing it with vegetables and legumes could prevent an estimated 4.5 million cases of chronic disease over 30 years.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Future of Foods Interviews

  • Campaigning to End Factory Farming - PROJECT SLINGSHOT’s Naomi Hallum

• How I Learned To Love Shrimp

  • Taj Uppal on risking 6 years in prison for rescuing animals

• The Hen Report

  • “Do Something Substantive” | Why Anti-Factory Farming Needs Diet Change

  • “The Ultimate Goal” | Vegan Advocacy, Factory Farming & the Future of “The Movement”

🎥 Videos

• We Animals releases The First to Trust, a short documentary following rescued animals at Safe in Austin Rescue Ranch in Texas as they form healing bonds with children and teens facing trauma, neurodivergence, and disability.

💡 Hive Fundraising Community Call

Join us for a community-led, crowd-sourced conversation to chat through strategies, swap tips, and connect with fellow fundraisers. (Please note that this call will not be recorded.) Wednesday, 21 October. Register here.

🌱 Hive Connect Latin America: Self-Care for Activists

Advocating for animals means confronting suffering every day, which can take an undeniable toll: exhaustion, guilt, and emotional burnout. In this workshop conducted in Spanish, we will explore how empathy fatigue impacts mental health, practice a guided meditation together, and share ways to sustain our activism without burning out. Thursday, 22 October. Register here.

👋🏼 Join us at our next Hive Community Conversations

Looking for a low-lift, welcoming space to meet fellow farmed animal advocates from around the world? Join us for our next session of 1:1s and small-group chats on Wednesday, 28 October—register here.

🧡 Community in action: Hive at Careers for Animals Utrecht

As a remote team spread across continents, we can’t always be everywhere at once—and that’s where our wonderful community steps in! A huge thank you to community member Erwin Rossen, who represented Hive at the Careers and Opportunities Fair during the Careers for Animals event in Utrecht. We’re beyond grateful for community champions like Erwin showing up for farmed animals everywhere.

🌏 Say Hi(ve) to us at the EA Istanbul Summit!

If you care about farmed animals and are based in Türkiye—let’s connect in Istanbul! Nazlı, our Communications and Events Officer, is attending EA Summit: Istanbul on Saturday, 24 October. She’ll be hosting a Farmed Animal Welfare meetup and will be around all day for networking. Keep an eye on Swapcard to secure your spot for the meetup!

Here’s to your impact for farmed animals

We hope you found this edition useful. We’ll reach out again in a few weeks with the next edition of Hive Highlights. Thanks for reading!

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🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources

🧡 Introductions

Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
It’s never too late to introduce yourself! Here are some recent intros:

• Hi, I’m Kyle Banton-Jones, an Animal Welfare Scientist and Founder based in Toronto, Canada.

• Hi, I’m Alexander Huntley, Research and Impact Manager at The Vegan Society, based in Cardiff, Wales, driving research on health, animal ethics, and sustainability.

• Hi, I’m Clinton Adoga, CEO and Co-founder at Farmlens based in Nairobi, Kenya, working at the intersection of AI, food systems, and farmed animal welfare.

• Hi, I’m Maja Krzysztofik, based in Tychy, Poland, in my sixth year volunteering at Anima International with a background in communications.

• Hi, I’m Liesje Lieverse, a Dutch marketing and web specialist based in Madrid, moving into a full-time animal advocacy role after six years running a mission-driven agency.

• Hi, I’m Brett Thompson, a consultant based in Cape Town and London who founded Africa’s first cultivated-meat company, Newform Foods, and co-founded the Credence Institute.

🙏 Help Requests

Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Take a look at some of the requests that got great answers. 👀

• Andrew found people in advocacy and campaign communications to chat with as he explores a career move in that direction.

• Ainhoa received recommendations for collaborative mapping tools for a research project, beyond what Google Maps offered.

• Mo got connections to mentors and operators with experience in retail, grocery, food supply chains, and the plant-based sector.

❓ Can you assist with these unanswered requests?

• Koushik is seeking input on what to ask poultry and goat butcher-shop workers for a research project on live animal transport welfare in India.

• Tiina is looking for anyone who has used LinkedIn ads for fundraising.

💼 Jobs

One of our most popular channels is #06-job-postings! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.

• (Senior) Program Officer, Neglected Animals, Rethink Priorities. Remote. Apply by 11 October.

• Head of Campaigns, Campaigns Lab. Remote. Apply by 16 October.

• Executive Director, Faunalytics. Remote, US. Apply by 18 October.

• Senior Campaigner, Animal Justice Project. Remote, UK. Apply by 23 October

• Associate Director of Philanthropy, GFI APAC. Singapore or Hong Kong.

• Special Projects Coordinator, PETA UK. Hybrid, London.

• Campaign Specialist, New Roots Institute. Remote.

🤖 AI Tools and Discussion

Join #s-ai-tools and #c-ai-discussion for all kinds of AI conversations!

• Jenny shared a LinkedIn experiment asking your LLM what people in 100 years will judge us for, with factory farming coming up strikingly often.

• Clare published an article mapping major precision livestock farming companies against animal welfare science, arguing their tech tracks productivity, rather than welfare.

• Liz flagged a newsletter on building equity into AI and data processes.

• Rakefet shared the “canary trick”, having Claude start each reply with your name, so you can spot when a long chat starts losing the thread.

👋 Opportunities and Help Offered

Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩

• Belle shared that Magnify Mentoring applications are open for women, non-binary, and trans people pursuing high-impact careers. Apply by October 20th.

• Marine announced that ICARE’s on-demand animal rights law course is now free, with eight modules covering ethics, legal personhood, strategic litigation, and more.

• Jenny is offering her illustration and animation skills to animal rights campaigns.

• Emmanuel is offering fundraising, communications, and organisational development expertise, with a focus on securing corporate commitments through the ESG angle.

🔥 Funding

Looking for fundraising advice? Join the conversation in #s-fundraising or explore our resource page!

• Grace announced the launch of BluePerch, a new animal welfare fund. Grant applications open in mid-2027, but you can register your interest as a grantseeker now, and they’re seeking board members too.

• Hereward shared the Invisible Life Grant Programme, supporting cross-border journalists investigating farm animal welfare issues in Europe and beyond.

• Megan flagged an Impact Funding newsletter that surfaces funding opportunities relevant to farmed animal advocacy.

🎁 Tools & Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.

• James built Spawn Again, a viral “Lottery of Life” game where you’re born as a random animal at the real odds, with almost no one drawing a human.

• Louise shared Factory Farm Fall, a global progress tracker charting the road to zero factory-farmed animals.

• Sofia distilled her most popular career advice into 20 tips for landing a high-impact job, from both sides of the hiring table.

• Manny wrote a case study on which poster designs got scanned most in a grassroots outreach campaign run through TraceReach.

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Welcome to the late September edition of Hive Highlights! Having just reconnected in person at our team retreat and caught up with many of you at the CARE conferences, our cups are full. We’re channeling that energy to finish Q3 strong and carry us into 2026’s final quarter. Let’s dive in!

Most popular link

The most popular link from Hive Highlights early September 2026 was for applications for The Campaigner’s Edge, a free 10-week course on corporate campaigning. You can still apply by 24 September.

Our top 3 picks for this edition

• BluePerch accepts expressions of interest for its new grant program ($5,000–$100,000 per project), prioritizing early-stage, time-sensitive, and underfunded animal advocacy initiatives globally.

• Bruce Friedrich argues that the effective altruism animal movement has made a strategic error by moving away from animal liberation and diet change advocacy. We recommend also reading the comment section.

• Magnify Mentoring accepts applications for its global mentee cohort, offering 1:1 mentorship and career strategy guidance for underrepresented groups in high-impact fields. Apply by 20 October.

— Sofia and Hannah, your Hive Highlights editorial team 🧡

In today’s edition:

1. Movement news

2. Jobs & Opportunities

3. Resources

4. Hive updates

🐖 Animal Welfare

• AgFunderNews reports that in ovo sexing has reached 40% penetration in the EU, and examines what it will take for the technology to gain traction in the US without legislative pressure.

• Bárbara Buril outlines ten high-ambition funding bets for animal advocacy’s next philanthropic wave, covering policy change, alternative proteins, and narrative change.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• Brazil’s National Treasury closes bidding for its fifth Eco Invest Brasil auction, which includes alternative proteins among six technology value chains set to receive dedicated financing.

• Good Food Institute Europe analyzes the European Commission’s latest food research strategy, finding positive references to diversifying protein supply and scaling up fermentation capacity but no commitment to fund the alternative protein research needed to achieve these aims.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• EU politicians seek to expand the plant-based label ban through new committee amendments, marking the third time in six years the EU has debated the subject.

• The European Commission proposes a Public Procurement Act that gives food its own purchasing category, allowing public buyers to weigh nutrition, animal welfare and supply chain transparency — but stops short of making those criteria mandatory.

• The US Senate Agriculture Committee advances a draft of the Farm Bill that excludes the “Save Our Bacon Act,” a provision designed to prevent states from enforcing stricter animal welfare protections.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• Better Food Foundation launches the Plant-Based Nudge Calculator, a free tool that estimates how many meals could shift from animal-based to plant-based in your food service settings by using nudges.

• Faunalytics announces that Executive Director Brooke Haggerty will be stepping down after eight years with the organization.

• Thrive Philanthropy and Scarlet Spark host a virtual leadership series (24 September–22 October) on strategy and organizational effectiveness for Latin American animal justice and food systems organizations.

💼 Jobs

• Generalist Intern, Animal Advocacy Media. Apply by 30 September.

• Head of Campaigns, Campaigns Lab. Remote, compatibility with UK time zone required for half of working hours. Apply by 16 October.

• Executive Director, Faunalytics. Remote, US. Apply by 18 October.

• Annual Giving & Grants Manager, Educated Choices Program. Remote, US.

• Research Fellow — Managed Honey Bees, Fairer Fields. Remote, US.

• Staff Scientist – Aquaculture & Animal Welfare, Ace Aquatec. Dundee, Scotland.

• Welfare Measurement Lead, Fish Welfare Initiative. Andhra Pradesh, India.

💡 Job hunting? Four ways to make it easier

1. Explore Hive’s free resources on Jobs and Careers

2. For new positions daily, join the #job-posting channel in Hive Slack.

3. Check out other job boards, including Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good.

4. Consider skilled volunteering to build your context, connections, and skills. Many volunteering opportunities are fully remote. Find them on the EA Opportunities Board, Flockwork, and in Hive Slack.

🔥 Opportunities

• Effective Thesis opens applications for its free, 8-week Fall Accelerator, helping students turn their academic research into high-impact career pathways across key global priority areas. Apply by 25 September.

• Sentient Futures opens early bird tickets (30% off through 23 November) for its 2027 Bay Area Summit (12–14 March in San Francisco), exploring AI safety, animal welfare, artificial sentience and more.

💰 Funding

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• Animal Law & Advocacy Conference, 2–4 October. Toronto, Canada.

• AVA Summit Thailand, 8–11 October. Bangkok, Thailand.

• EA Global: New York City, 16–18 October. New York, New York, US.

• The Animals, Technology and Law Conference, 23–25 October. Washington, D.C. US.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• Campaigns Lab publishes a new report analyzing donation pages across 24 farmed animal advocacy organizations, identifying key friction points and practical ways to prevent lost donor funding.

• Researchers demonstrate that daily health prompts increase plant-based lunch choices among UK and Irish teenagers.

• Tiny Beam Fund releases Issue 9 of Beacon, highlighting academic insights on industrial animal agriculture and food system shifts across developing countries.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Future of Foods Interviews

  • Making Real Cheese Without the Cow - FORMO

• The Deal with Animals with Marika S. Bell

  • Building the Future of Animal Advocacy: PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference

📙 Books

• Animal and Vegan Advocacy: The Psychological Science and Practice of Attitude, Behavior, and Social Change, edited by Kristof Dhont, Robbie Sutton, and Maria Ioannidou. Available for pre-order.

🧡 Behind the Scenes: The Annual Hive Retreat

Last week, our remote team gathered in Warsaw for our annual Hive Retreat! Across 2.5 days, we enjoyed (lots of) vegan food and snapped rare team photos, but also tackled vital deeper work. We questioned things we usually take for granted, got honest with each other about where we're stretched thin, and were continuously reminded of why we do this work in the first place.

✈️ Hive at the CARE Conference

Straight after our retreat, Alexia, Katherine, Kevin, Megan, Therese, and I (Sofia) joined over 500 advocates in Warsaw for the 11th edition of CARE! Kevin and Therese hosted two Speed Meeting sessions to help advocates build connections and spark collaborations. It was wonderful catching up with so many of you in person throughout the event!

🌏 Welcoming our new Asia Ambassadors

We’re thrilled to welcome two new Asia Ambassadors: Anita Rajan, who leads our work across South and Southeast Asia, and Katherine Ma, who leads our China portfolio. Both step into these roles as Angel focuses fully on her position as Deputy Managing Director, supporting Hive's leadership and overseeing our day-to-day operations.

👋🏼 Connect at Our Next Hive Community Conversations

Looking for a low-lift, welcoming space to meet fellow farmed animal advocates from around the world? Join us for our next session of 1:1s and small-group chats on Monday, 28 September—register here.

Here’s to your impact for farmed animals

We hope you found this edition useful. We’ll reach out again in a few weeks with the next edition of Hive Highlights. Thanks for reading!

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Welcome to the early September edition of Hive Highlights! Our team is buzzing with energy as we prepare for Hive’s second-ever in-person retreat! Before we gather to reflect and plan for the year ahead, we’re thrilled to bring you a packed edition featuring various free programs to support your advocacy journey, new funding opportunities, and much more. Let’s dive in!

Most popular link

The most popular link from Hive Highlights August 2026 was the Nova Vista Foundation’s $10M request for proposals on alternative protein policy and market-shaping. Grants run $100,000–$750,000, and applications close 15 September, so there’s still time.

Our top 3 picks for this edition

• High Impact Professionals opens applications for its Impact Accelerator Program, a free six-week virtual program for experienced professionals moving into high-impact careers. Apply by 20 September.

• The Humane League and Animal Advocacy Careers open applications for The Campaigner’s Edge, a free 10-week course on corporate campaigning with no background needed. Apply by 24 September.

• Sentient Futures opens applications for their AI×Animals fellowship, a free eight-week program to support you in steering AI toward animal-positive outcomes. Apply by 24 September.

— Sofia and Hannah, your Hive Highlights editorial team 🧡

In today’s edition:

1. Movement news

2. Jobs & Opportunities

3. Partner Spotlight: Apply by 13 September to animal charity founding round

4. Resources

5. Hive updates

🐖 Animal Welfare

• Collectively Gary critiques plans to optimize factory farming, arguing that using unprecedented funding to improve production efficiency fundamentally undermines the goal of ending animal agriculture.

• Economists propose a new way to calculate what animal welfare is worth, giving advocates figures to put in front of policymakers.

• Tyson Foods closes multiple U.S. beef plants as tight cattle supplies squeeze meat processors.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• Cultivated meat reaches close to a dozen regulatory approvals worldwide, with Singapore adding beef and duck, though nothing is yet selling at scale.

• European alternative protein funding rises 56% this year, with grants and loans filling the gap left by retreating venture capital.

• UK shoppers trade meat substitutes for beans and tofu, according to retail data tracking a shift toward whole-food proteins.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• EU lawmakers move to expand the “veggie burger” labelling ban to cover more plant-based meat terms.

• Sentient Media traces how California’s Proposition 12 keeps surviving legal and legislative attempts to overturn it.

• Study finds that members of the European Parliament with financial interests in agriculture vote against environmental protections three times more often than their colleagues.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• Animal Charity Evaluators shares impact updates from its Recommended Charity Fund grantees for the first half of 2026.

• Animal Law Europe publishes a White Paper advocating for stronger protections for pigs under EU law through a prohibition on caged farming.

• Aquatic Life Institute publishes the fifth edition of its Aquaculture Certification Schemes Benchmark report, which evaluates how strongly aquatic animal welfare is embedded within aquaculture certification and rating frameworks.

• Fish Welfare Initiative shares its history of expanding into—and pulling out of—new countries, and its initial plans to begin scoping work beyond India and China.

• ProVeg International launches the Protein Shift Hub, an interactive platform tracking corporate progress against the Plant-Rich Europe Call to Action across six European countries and 72 companies.

🎲 Other

• I (Sofia) explore whether you should start a nonprofit or join one.

• Jack Lewars argues that donors should push animal welfare charities to have more robust scaling plans.

• Rethink Priorities examines whether broader AI trends will shift the cultivated meat picture, finding that AI helps least with the sector’s non-technical bottlenecks: regulatory throughput, political opposition, and consumer acceptance.

• Rockwell and Tom Billington ask whether the animal movement is making welfare tech into its next “bubble,” and outline what a healthier approach could look like.

💼 Jobs

• Chief Operating Officer, ProVeg International. Remote, global. Apply by 15 September.

• Global Accounts Receivable Assistant, Compassion in World Farming. Hybrid, UK. Apply by 17 September.

• Campaigns Officer, Animal Equality. Remote, UK. Apply by 18 September.

• Global Growth Manager/Lead, Fish Welfare Initiative. Six months or more in-country (likely in South or Southeast Asia) during the first one to two years. Apply by 20 September.

• Executive Director, Senterra Funders. Remote, US. Apply by 21 September.

• Program Manager, Planted Society. Remote, US. Apply by 25 September.

• Director of Communications, Latin America, REBL. Remote, Latin America.

• Head of Technology and Recruitment and Outreach Manager, New Roots Institute. Remote, North America.

• Social Media Manager, Vegan Friendly. Remote, US.

💡 Job hunting? Four ways to make it easier

1. Explore Hive’s free resources on Jobs and Careers

2. For new positions daily, join the #job-posting channel in Hive Slack.

3. Check out other job boards, including Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good.

4. Consider skilled volunteering to build your context, connections, and skills. Many volunteering opportunities are fully remote. Find them on the EA Opportunities Board, Flockwork, and in Hive Slack.

🔥 Opportunities

• Amplify opens registrations for a free, 8-week AI Foundations course for animal advocates (6 October–3 December), featuring a redesigned curriculum on new AI coworker tools.

• Faunalytics hosts a webinar on 16 September unpacking its study of how US adults respond to “factory farm,” “animal factory,” and “industrial animal agriculture,” and what that means for campaign messaging.

• Pro-Animaux launches a new edition of its free 6-week Programme d’Impact Animaliste Francophone for French-speaking advocates. Apply by 25 September.

• VARC 2027 opens early bird tickets and speaker applications (closing 2 October) for its conference in Manchester, UK next year.

💰 Funding

• Reporters for Animals International opens applications for its 2026/2027 Grants Round, offering $5,000–$20,000 through the Vegan Investigations Fund for investigative projects and $20,000–$40,000 via the Investigation Infrastructure Fund for organizational support. Apply by 21 September.

• Journalismfund Europe opens applications for its Invisible Life Grant Programme, funding cross-border investigative reporting on farmed animal welfare and European interests, both within and beyond Europe.

• Sentient Media launches the $360,000 Food and Farming Storytelling Fund to provide direct grants, legal guidance, editorial support and more for journalists and content creators reporting on factory farming and agriculture.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• Animal Grantmakers Conference, 16–17 September. Oklahoma City, US.

• CARE Conference, 17–20 September. Warsaw, Poland.

• EAGxIndia, 19–20 September. New Delhi, India.

• Plant Forward, 21–23 September. Saskatoon, Canada.

• EAGxOxford, 25–27 September. Oxford, UK

• Animal Law & Advocacy Conference, 2–4 October. Toronto, Canada.

• AVA Summit Thailand, 8–11 October. Bangkok, Thailand.

• EA Global: New York City, 16–18 October. New York, New York, US.

• The Animals, Technology and Law Conference, 23–25 October. Washington, D.C. US.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

Apply by 13 September to animal charity founding round

Do you see yourself as a charity founder? If not, did you know that over 50% of the most successful founders in the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program didn’t think they should apply?

The program launches high-impact charities by providing research-backed ideas, co-founder matching, a living stipend and covered travel, and dedicated community and support. Around 95% of incubated projects go on to receive seed funding, and founders who don’t end up launching often move quickly into another high-impact role. Applications are open for the first round dedicated entirely to animal charities. Animal Advocacy Careers, Animal Ask, Animal Policy International, Fish Welfare Initiative, FarmKind, and Shrimp Welfare Project were all launched through this program.

Are you a fit? You don’t need experience in animal welfare, and you don’t need to know how to found a charity. They’re looking for people who take seriously that factory farming is one of the biggest problems of our time, and who are willing to follow the evidence on what will make the biggest difference. The application takes 15-30 minutes, and the best way to find out your fit is to apply.

Founding is rewarding, and it’s tough. But if you take this step, you won’t be alone: Hive’s team and global community of farmed animal advocates will be here at every stage 🧡 Learn more about the program, and apply here by 13 September.

📚 Research

• Faunalytics updates its Animal Product Impact Scales with fresh US estimates and the UK’s first data, ranking 97 products by animal lives and days of suffering per serving.

• Researchers examine how consumers in seven Northern and Baltic European countries prioritize different alternative protein sources.

• Researchers find that modern alternative proteins are not replacing meat purchases in restaurants.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Fork the System

  • Monica Chen on building passionate youth to lead in food

• How I Learned to Love Shrimp

  • Nina Friedrich on why and how you should transition your career to high-impact animal advocacy

• Our Hen House

  • Rescuing Baby Goats is a Felony?: Attorney Taj Uppal on Facing Prison for Saving Two Lives

📙 Books

• Fighting for Farmed Animals: Campaigning on the Shoulders of Giants, edited by Amy Odene.

🎥 Videos

• A new Netflix documentary Big chicken: a fast food conspiracy puts the fried chicken industry under scrutiny through Mo Gilligan’s 28-day diet experiment.

📖 Open tabs

Meet Johannes Pichler, a Vienna-based advocate and Hive CoNectar, in the latest Open tabs interview. He traces his path into effective animal advocacy, how he approaches effective giving, and much more. Read Johannes’s story here.

✈️ Say Hi(ve) to us at CARE

Over 500 farmed animal advocates are gathering in Warsaw for the 11th edition of the Conference on Animal Rights in Europe (CARE)! Hive team members Alexia, Katherine, Kevin, Megan, Therese (and myself, Sofia) will be there, with Kevin and Therese hosting two Speed Meeting sessions to help advocates build new connections. If you're attending, keep an eye on Swapcard for any last-minute spots and be sure to say hi to our team while you're there!

👋🏼 Join us at our next Hive Community Conversations!

Come for a relaxed, welcoming session of 1:1s and small-group chats. A low-lift way to connect with farmed animal advocates from around the world! Monday, 28 September, register here.

Here’s to your impact for farmed animals

We hope you found this edition useful. We’ll reach out again in a few weeks with the next edition of Hive Highlights. Thanks for reading!

— Sofia and Hannah, your Hive Highlights editorial team.

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🧑‍💻 Slack Updates
🤖 AI Tools and Discussion
👋 Opportunities and Help Offered
🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources

🧡 Introductions

Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
It’s never too late to introduce yourself! Here are some recent intros:

• Hi, I’m Tiri Pestrivas, a PhD researcher in data science and AI based in Adelaide, Australia, keen to put my technical and rapid-prototyping skills to work for animals.

• Hi, I’m Hannah, Executive in Charge of Production at MythFactory and President at Pawprint Association, a regional animal welfare NGO near Bordeaux, France.

• Hi, I’m Nurma Komala, Grant Officer at Animals Don’t Speak Human based in Bali, Indonesia, with a research background in ethics and ecotheology.

• Hi, I’m Kowshik Sundararajan, a software engineer based in Singapore, transitioning into full-time farmed animal advocacy.

• Hi, I’m Richard Obi, an animal nutritionist and scientist based in Nigeria, focused on farmed animals and the intersection of nutrition, health, welfare, and One Health.

• Hi, I’m Minh Ho Ha Anh, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a background in business administration and a focus on expanding farmed animal advocacy across Southeast Asia.

🙏 Help Requests

Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Take a look at some of the requests that got great answers. 👀

• Zachary was pointed toward resources and tools for finding local grassroots animal groups beyond the ones already mapped.

• Chris received some helpful suggestions after asking which software or app works best for managing individual donations from the public.

• Michael received offers for feedback on the theory of change for a new organisation in the cultivated meat sector.

❓ Can you assist with these unanswered requests?

• Mitchell is looking for public data on cage shares for North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania to inform an egg-imports model.

• Aditi is looking for experience securing cage-free retailer commitments, especially around monitoring progress and framing the ask.

• Mark is looking for coaches, mentors, or resources to support a senior leader establishing a new food systems and animal welfare organisation.

💼 Jobs

One of our most popular channels is #06-job-postings! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.

• Executive Director, GFI Europe. Remote, Belgium or UK. Apply by 13 September.

• Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, Ambitious Impact. Remote. Apply by 13 September.

• Associate Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center. Hybrid, US. Apply by 18 September.

• Global Growth Manager/Lead, Fish Welfare Initiative. Remote. Apply by 20 September.

• Head of Technology, New Roots Institute. Remote, North America.

• Head of Policy, Good Food Institute APAC. Remote, Asia-Pacific.

• Staff Attorney, Animal Law & Policy Program, Harvard Law School. Cambridge, USA.

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👩‍💻 Slack Updates

• Welcome our new Asia Ambassadors! 🌏

  Please welcome Anita Rajan and Katherine Ma to the Hive team as our new Asia Ambassadors, leading our South/Southeast Asia and China portfolios!

• Spotlight💡
  Free Project Consultations from Hive! Got an early-stage idea or an active project stuck on funding, hiring, or strategy? Book a free 1:1 call with a Hive team member to identify your next steps and get connected to relevant resources and people. Applications take 3-6 minutes.

• Fresh on the blog📖

  • Megan talked with Johannes about his journey in animal advocacy, and why effective giving is easier to start than most people think. Edition two of Open Tabs, our interview series with members of Hive's CoNectar monthly giving community.

• Upcoming event🗓️

  • Hive Community Conversations, Wednesday, 28 Sptember

🤖 AI Tools and Discussion

Join #s-ai-tools and #c-ai-discussion for all kinds of AI conversations!

• Julie flagged a study in Nature Communications finding that large language models exhibit a speciesist bias against animals.

• Xing opened a discussion on whether activists should use AI-generated images, drawing on the backlash he faced sharing AI comics on climate and animal agriculture.

• Olivia wrote a post on becoming a Google Sheets power user with AI, with concrete examples from her own workflow.

• Kyle announced that Amplify for Animals is back with a free 5-week series on AI automations for advocates, building email triage agents, scheduled tasks, and more.

• Rakefet shared a prompt that turns AI into a critical thinking partner, pushing back on ideas instead of defaulting to agreement.

👋 Opportunities and Help Offered

Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩

• Julie is offering qualitative research and editing support, from transcript editing to acting as a thought partner.

• Emily is offering a few hours a week of comms and community support, writing, editing, content strategy, outreach, and general admin.

• Maria Teresa, a senior editor, is offering editorial support, proofreading and editing proposals, reports, and concept notes, plus editorial strategy.

• Steven shared that Vegan Hacktivists is offering free AI support for animal advocacy organisations. Apply by 7 September.

• Dana shared the High Impact Professionals Impact Accelerator, a free 6-week programme for mid-career and senior professionals. Apply by 20 September.

🔥 Funding

Looking for fundraising advice? Join the conversation in #s-fundraising or explore our resource page!

• Tiina received input on when to approach companies for donations towards a Christmas fundraising campaign.

• The EA Animal Welfare Fund opened two requests for proposals, including a plan to deploy $15M+ toward accelerating a cage-free future for laying hens. Applications are welcome anytime.

• Jade was directed to digital fundraising courses.

• Violet Studios reopened applications for its free creative services, including bespoke social media training. Apply by 7 September.

• Nova Vista Foundation launched an open Request For Proposals for high-impact alternative protein work, with grants from $100,000 to $750,000. Apply by 15 September.

🎁 Tools & Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.

• Björn published two reports comparing the water use of animal agriculture, plant-based agriculture, and AI, finding factory farming over 100 times worse than LLMs, along with a media analysis of the lopsided coverage.

• Zachary put together a menu of 26 volunteer roles for local organisers, plus a personality quiz to match people to roles in grassroots communities.

• Marcelo shared Jus Animalis, a Brazilian legal portal bringing together animal law legislation, case law, academic articles, and a directory of animal law attorneys.

• Sofia wrote a post on ten founder mistakes she made building Hive, from idea to exit.

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The most popular link from Hive Highlights late July 2026 was for Sentient Futures opening applications for its fall 2026 Project Incubator, a 10-week mentorship program exploring AI’s impact on animals. Applications closed but you can stay updated with the community via their newsletter.

To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:

From Jobs & Opportunities

• 🔥 Opportunities: Ambitious Impact opens its first-ever animal-only round of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, running February–April 2027. The updated program includes a funded 3-month exploration phase with ongoing stipends and an exploration grant, ending in a seed funding proposal for your organization’s first year. Apply by 13 September.

• 💰 Funding: Nova Vista Foundation opens a $10M request for proposals on policy advocacy, market-shaping, and other high-leverage work on alternative proteins. Grants run $100,000-$750,000, primarily to US 501(c)(3)s and charitable equivalents elsewhere. Apply by 15 September.

• 💰 Funding: The EA Animal Welfare Fund seeks proposals that accelerate the cage-free transition for laying hens at scale, especially in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The Fund supports the entire pipeline of cage-free transitions. Grants run $100,000 to $5M+, and applicants should have a clear plan to scale to at least one million laying hens spared from cages. Priority deadline 15 October.

  • Relatedly, the EA Animal Welfare Fund encourages organizations to build concrete scaling roadmaps, offering dedicated funding to support that planning work.

Warmly,
Sofia, Hannah, Monica, and the Hive team

How to navigate Hive Highlights

Every two weeks, Hive sends you the latest updates (click to jump):

1. Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other

2. Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events

3. Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos

4. Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!

Other ways to read this newsletter: Extensions Jetwriter AI (to summarize posts) or Read Aloud.

🐖 Animal Welfare

• Beijing Konjac Technology launches China’s first commercially developed in-ovo sexing device, identifying egg sex at day 12 of incubation with 98% accuracy and offering a route away from routine male chick culling.

• Brittany Ferries ends the transport of all live farmed animals, including unweaned calves, from Ireland to France on its ships by September 2026 at the latest.

• InsectBiotech raises $8.3M to scale black soldier fly larvae production in Spain.

• Nueva Pescanova abandons plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm, following years of sustained pressure from non-governmental organizations, scientists, and the public.

• Sentient Media reports that most glyphosate applied in the US goes toward livestock feed crops, tying the herbicide’s Supreme Court-backed legal shield to the scale of industrial animal agriculture. It also finds that mismatched US-UK regulations and limited testing leave open questions about antibiotic resistance risk in imported Scottish farmed salmon.

• Vox finds extreme cruelty at a Costco organic chicken supplier, prompting Pilgrim’s Pride to drop the farm.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• Aleph Farms secures Singapore regulatory approval for its cultivated beef steak, targeting a 2027 restaurant launch‒the sixth cultivated meat product approved in the country.

• All G launches its precision-fermented, cow-free lactoferrin in the US, with a human-identical version expected within six months.

• Arboreal Bioinnovations raises $24M to scale yeast proteins and next-generation sweeteners in India.

• A roundtable in India builds the case for incorporating alternative protein into state feeding schemes, using malnutrition data to make the argument.

• Oatly reports a life-cycle analysis showing its oat milk now has a 67% lower climate impact than chilled cow’s milk in the UK, up from 55% in 2021.

• Plantopia raises $9M to commercialize casein grown in sprouted oats, aiming to match conventional dairy casein on price and function without cows.

• The European Commission names protein diversification and the scale-up of plant-based protein a top research and innovation priorities in its Food 2040 consultation.

• The Global Sustainable Tourism Council releases a new standard requiring certified hotels and restaurants to make at least 30% of their menus plant-based.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• Brazil’s President Lula da Silva signs a law to ban the sale and production of the French delicacy foie gras in the South American country, citing animal cruelty.

• FOUR PAWS UK publishes a report calling for mandatory Method of Production labelling on all animal products sold in the UK, launched at a Parliamentary event and backed by nearly 80% public support for the measure.

• The European Court of Human Rights rules Switzerland violated two detainees’ rights by failing to provide vegan meals matching their convictions while in state custody.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• The Transfarmation Project opens a demonstration hub in Iowa, converting a former hog operation into a specialty mushroom farm.

🎲 Other

• I (Sofia) publish a guide mapping the animal advocacy incubator programs now running, to help founders pick the best fit for a new project. I also break down the day-to-day realities and personal fit required to found a nonprofit.

• Lewis Bollard argues that a wave of new AI-driven philanthropic funding could be a “step-change” for the movement, and offers initial thoughts on what the new money could enable our movement to do.

• Michael Goff makes the case for a flat tax on meat and animal products as a more effective lever than alternative protein innovation alone for reducing factory farming.

• Rufaro Daniel Nyakudya explores what a “post-meat” world could mean for the billions of animals currently bred for food, and what obligations humanity would owe them during the transition.

• Sentient Media explores whether AI pain-detection will help farmed animals or the industry, noting that while models predict pain accurately, critics warn the tech could give confinement a data-backed defense.

💼 Jobs

• Director of Operations, Elevate Philanthropy. Remote, global (London, New York or San Francisco preferred). Apply by 24 August.

• Consultant, Elevate Philanthropy. Remote, global (London, New York or San Francisco preferred). Apply by 27 August.

• Head of People and Operations, Animal Aid. Hybrid, Kent, UK. Apply by 30 August.

• Country Lead, Vietnam Animal Welfare Watch. Remote, Vietnam preferred. Apply by 31 August.

• Head of Programmes, Eurogroup for Animals. Brussels, Belgium. Apply by 4 September.

• Interim Executive Director (18-month contract), We Animals. Remote, Eastern Time overlap preferred. Apply by 4 September.

• Head of EU (Policy/Lobbying), Compassion in World Farming. Hybrid, Belgium. Apply by 7 September.

• Executive Director, The Good Food Institute Europe. Remote, Europe. Apply by 13 September.

• Open Wing Alliance Europe Corporate Strategy Lead, The Humane League. Remote, select countries in Europe. Apply by 6 October.

• Editor and Reporter, Animals Farmed desk, The Guardian. London, UK.

• Executive Assistant to CEO, Myrias. Bay Area preferred; otherwise based in China or a US time zone.

• Expression of Interest, Elevate Philanthropy. Remote, global.

• Expression of Interest, Myrias. Remote, global (and especially in China).

• Global Corporate Engagement Lead, Sinergia Animal. Remote, global.

• Grants & Programme Manager, Who Let The Docs Out. Remote, London or Berlin preferred.

• Head of Policy, The Good Food Institute APAC. Remote, Asia-Pacific.

Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good job boards.

💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering

Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.

Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:

• EA Opportunities Board

• Flockwork

• The Hive Slack Community (that’s us!)

🔥 Opportunities

• The Mission Motor offers free Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning services to help nonprofits build program designs, assessments, and evaluations.

• Violet Studios offers free creative and design support to animal advocacy nonprofits, from rebrands to campaign materials. Apply by 7 September for Q4 work.

• We at Hive offer free 1:1 strategic advice on funding pathways, co-founder searches, project framing and more for early-stage or stalled farmed animal advocacy projects. Apply now (see Hive Updates for details).

💰 Funding

• no hotdog offers microgrants of up to $500 for projects supporting animals, nature and technology, awarded by member vote.

• We Animals funds photo and video assignments for organizations working on farmed animals in Asia or Latin America, covering fieldwork costs up to $5,000 CAD.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• New Food Conference, 25 August. Berlin, Germany.

• EAGxSingapore, 29–30 August. Singapore, Singapore.

• Animal Grantmakers Conference, 16–17 September. Oklahoma City, US.

• CARE Conference, 17–20 September. Warsaw, Poland.

• EAGxIndia, 19–20 September. New Delhi, India.

• Plant Forward, 21–23 September. Saskatoon, Canada.

• EAGxOxford, 25–27 September. Oxford, UK

• Animal Law Advocacy Conference, 2–4 October. Toronto, Canada.

• AVA Summit Thailand, 8–11 October. Bangkok, Thailand.

• EA Global: New York City, 16–18 October. New York, New York, US.

• The Animals, Technology and Law Conference, 23–25 October. Washington, D.C. US.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• Animal Ask evaluates key leverage points for farmed animal advocacy in India to help advocates and funders prioritize high-impact interventions.

• Animetrics, with Kaleem Ahmid, surveys 6,294 Muslim consumers across 15 countries on how halal and animal welfare intersect and which advocacy messages resonate.

• Bryant Research reports a turnaround in the plant-based sector, citing rising sales, falling prices, and growing investment across key markets.

• Faunalytics finds that “animal factory” provoked a negative reaction in 79% of the 2,000 US adults who saw it, well above other terms tested for animal agriculture.

• The Centre for Animal Life and Farming publishes its first report, drawing 20 agricultural development strategies to shift farmer behavior in low- and middle-income countries.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Euzoia

  • How to Navigate your Career (With Sofia Balderson). I also write up my takeaways and resources on cultivating agency.

• Fork The System

  • Matthew Dominguez on Stopping the Save Our Bacon Act

• Our Hen House

  • “Is There Anything Left To Say?” | Octopus Farm Canceled, Brazil Bans Foie Gras & More Animal Rights News

• Lives Well Lived

  • Peter Singer turns 80

🎥 Videos

• International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics publishes a webinar recording on how investigations, legal complaints, strategic litigation, and regulatory pressure can be used to expose abuses in slaughterhouses and push for accountability.

• Hugh Jackman’s new family film The Sheep Detectives carries an animal-rights message, following a wool farmer whose flock investigates a mystery on the farm.

💡 Free 1:1 Project Consults

Hive offers free 1:1 project consults to help early-stage and stalled farmed animal advocacy projects determine their next practical steps. During a tailored session with a Hive team member–myself (Sofia), Kevin, Alexia for LatAm, or Angel for Asia–you’ll get guidance on funding pathways, co-founder searches, project framing, and more. Applications take just 3 to 6 minutes, and we respond within 5 business days. Apply now or pass the link to a colleague in your network!

📖 New on the Blog: Open Tabs

We’re excited to launch Open Tabs, a new blog series spotlighting members of Hive’s CoNectar monthly giving community. In our inaugural interview, we catch up with Jacqueline Payne to explore her journey into veganism and caring about farmed animals, advocacy when time is (very) scarce, her career pivot towards the AI x Animals intersection, and what she avoids giving her attention to. Read Jacqueline’s story on the Hive blog.

✈️ Say Hi(ve) to Us on the Road

Our team will be on the ground at two conferences late this month! Our Latin America Ambassador Alexia is attending EA Summit: Buenos Aires on 29 August, Argentina’s first dedicated EA conference. Meanwhile, our Deputy Managing Director and Asia Ambassador Angel will be at EAGxSingapore (29–30 August) to deliver her talk, “Why AI x Animals Deserves Your Attention.” If you’re attending either event, say hi to Alexia or Angel on Swapcard or the Hive Slack ahead of time!

🗓️ Upcoming Virtual Events

• Hive Community Conversation, 27 August. Our monthly Hive Community Conversation is back! This low-pressure virtual meetup is designed for farmed animal advocates to share reflections and make meaningful connections. Whether you’re new to the movement or not—this space is for you! Register on Luma.

• How to CARE: Plan & Prep for Your Best Conference Yet, 2 September. Heading to the Conference on Animal Rights in Europe (CARE) this year? Join the Hive team for a friendly prep session covering networking strategies, session selection, tech navigation across Swapcard and Slack, and a co-working block to set up your calendar before arriving in Warsaw. Register on Luma.

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Slack channels covered:

🧡 Introductions
🙏 Help Requests
💼 Jobs
🧑‍💻 Slack Updates
🤖 AI Tools and Discussion
👋 Opportunities and Help Offered
🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources

🧡 Introductions

Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
It’s never too late to introduce yourself! Here are some recent intros:

• Hi, I’m Luke Saldanha, co-founder of the vegan ice cream company Pink Albatross in Spain, now transitioning into an impact role in animal welfare and food systems.

• Hi, I’m Mariana Herrera Lopez, Community and Development Coordinator at Sinergia Animal based in Bogotá, Colombia, overseeing volunteer engagement and community building across Latin America.

• Hi, I’m Giulia Peruzzo, a Peace and Gender Advisor at GIZ based in Kathmandu, Nepal, working to bring peacebuilding methods and approaches for social transformation into the animal rights movement.

• Hi, I’m Manikanta Munganda, a Senior Project Associate at Fish Welfare Initiative based in Andhra Pradesh, India, researching pond preparation, fish welfare, and sustainable farm management.

• Hi, I’m Annie Evans, Global Operations and Programs Manager at Project 1882 based in Sheffield, UK, with seven years of prior experience at The Humane League.

• Hi, I’m Florian Ilgenfritz, IT Lead at the Albert Schweitzer Foundation based in Berlin, Germany, interested in IT and AI best practices for animal welfare nonprofits.

🙏 Help Requests

Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Take a look at some of the requests that got great answers. 👀

• Cameron got recommendations and contacts for launching a social media fellowship to expand animal advocacy coverage.

• Hereward asked for existing repositories of materials for presenting animal advocacy at schools, universities, and to authorities, and got pointers to Animal Aid UK, TeachKind, Animal Think Tank, and Nature Based Education.

• Dan found reviewers for his brief on novel cross-disciplinary alt protein experiments.

❓ Can you assist with these unanswered requests?

• Billy is looking for anyone with experience conducting consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) studies, exploring the impacts of animal byproducts in pet food.

• Michael is looking for co-founders to start a company providing cell culture medium services for the cultivated meat industry.

• Lalitha is looking for leads on capturing underwater footage at fish farms, particularly in Indian/Asian contexts and earthen ponds.

💼 Jobs

One of our most popular channels is #06-job-postings! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.

• Operational Excellence & Client Delivery Consultant, PEPR. Remote, US or UK. Apply by 14 August.

• US Managing Director, Project Slingshot. Remote, US. Apply by 15 August.

• Head of People and Operations, Animal Aid. Tonbridge, UK. Apply by 30 August.

• Operations Associate, Fairer Fields. Remote, US.

• Head of Corporate Engagement, Good Food Institute APAC. Remote/hybrid, APAC.

• Senior Accountant, Earth Species Project. Remote, US.

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👩‍💻 Slack Updates

• Shoutout to our newest Pollinator!🐝

  Marcelo Daidone Chalita joined our amazing team of pollinators! He’ll be helping us especially with our work in Brazil🧡

• Spotlight💡
  AI Office Hours are live! Join Richie and Steven from Vegan Hacktivists for weekly live sessions where you can brainstorm and troubleshoot your AI questions. Every Tuesday and Thursday.

• Fresh on the blog📖

  • Sofia shared her take on whether to start your own high-impact org or join an existing one.

  • The first edition of Open Tabs, our new series featuring members of the CoNectar giving community. This time Megan talked with Jackie about her path into advocacy and her pivot towards the AI x Animals space.

• Upcoming events🗓️

  • Hive Fundraising Community Call, Thursday, 20 August

  • Hive Community Conversations, Wednesday, 26 August

  • How to CARE: Plan & Prep for Your Best Conference Yet, Tuesday, 1 September

🤖 AI Tools and Discussion

Join #s-ai-tools and #c-ai-discussion for all kinds of AI conversations!

• Ruth received lots of input on her question about using Claude in a GDPR-compliant way in the UK or EU.

• Holly shared that Earth Species Project has open-sourced alp-data, a shared data layer giving unified access to 35+ bioacoustic datasets for AI-powered study of animal communication.

• David pointed to a resource page from The Unjournal, gathering animal welfare economics evaluations, forecasting, and prioritisation tools.

• Jenna shared the Faunalytics Lens, a free AI research assistant that answers animal advocacy questions straight from the Research Library with citations.

• Kyle announced that Amplify for Animals is back for 2026 with free AI courses, including Strategic Decision Making and Automations.

👋 Opportunities and Help Offered

Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩

• Sophia, a clinical psychologist, is offering volunteer support over the summer for projects at the intersection of mental health and animal activism.

• Ronan is offering a free pilot cohort session on management and leadership development for anyone looking to strengthen those skills.

• Marine shared ICARE’s affordable on-demand animal rights law course, with scholarships available for those who need them.

• Ashley, a recently qualified vet, is offering freelance research and writing support, including literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and scientific editing.

• Anna shared a free 8-week fellowship reading Jewish sources on obligation and priority alongside career prioritisation frameworks. Apply by August 9th.

🔥 Funding

Looking for fundraising advice? Join the conversation in #s-fundraising or explore our resource page!

• Faqih is looking for feedback on a fundraising proposal for an intervention against roadside livestock pens, before sharing it more widely.

• Maria shared an article on Switzerland withdrawing development cooperation funding from Latin America, and what it means for building local funding ecosystems.

• Liya is seeking funders and foundations that support international organisations, for a sanctuary in Israel.

• Join our next Hive Fundraising Community Call on 20 August!

🎁 Tools & Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.

• Sofia shared a map of the movement’s incubators, laying out how all nine programs differ and which might fit you.

• Pablo shared a FAQ on the New World screwworm, from the basics to the welfare and ethical questions involved.

• Rachel shared Thyme and Place, a new food app for New York City.

• Deena launched a free grant-readiness course helping nonprofits build the strategy, plan, and budget that funders want to see. Free until 1 September.

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Big news in this edition, starting with major EU animal welfare reforms, a free incubator on AI and animals, and an exciting job opportunity that is very close to my heart:

In case you haven’t heard, I’ll be stepping down as Hive’s Executive Director later this year. We are hiring for my replacement! Because of you and everyone in our community, Hive is stronger than ever. You’ve achieved a record number of high-impact outcomes with us this year, and farmed animal advocates across the world are better connected thanks to Hive’s programs.

Because of this progress, now feels like the right time to hand over to someone who can take us even further. More details below. But first, let’s get into the newsletter!

The most popular link from Hive Highlights early July 2026 was Vegan Hacktivists' registration opening for Amplify, a series of free online courses for animal advocates.

To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:

From Movement News

• ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law: The European Commission publishes its EU Livestock Strategy, committing to legislative proposals on animal welfare by the end of 2026, including cage bans and an end to male chick killing.

From Jobs & Opportunities

• 💼 Jobs: Hive is searching for its next Executive Director, and we'd love to see someone from this community step up! If you have experience in fundraising, strategy, and team management and know the farmed animal movement, we want to hear from you. Apply by 9 August. Join our webinar on 30 July to learn more.

• 🔥 Opportunities: Sentient Futures opens applications for its fall 2026 Project Incubator, a 10-week remote mentorship program on a concrete project exploring AI’s impact on animals, among other topics at the frontier of nonhuman welfare. Apply by 9 August.

We appreciate your curiosity about the latest efforts to help more farmed animals around the world. Thank you for reading!

Warmly,
Sofia, Chelsea, and the Hive team

How to navigate Hive Highlights

Every two weeks, Hive sends you the latest updates (click to jump):

1. Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other

2. Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events

3. Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos

4. Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!

Other ways to read this newsletter: Extensions Jetwriter AI (to summarize posts) or Read Aloud.

🐖 Animal Welfare

• China’s foie gras industry expands rapidly, potentially surpassing France as the world’s largest producer, raising concerns about the global scale of force-feeding practices.

• McDonald’s Ukraine announces 100% cage-free eggs across its 120+ restaurants, setting a public precedent in a market where approximately 98% of hens remain in cages.

• Project Phoenix explores whether some animal welfare reforms may unintentionally strengthen factory farming systems rather than weaken them.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• California invests $500 million in school kitchen infrastructure to upgrade facilities and expand plant-based and non-dairy meal options across the state.

• The Educated Choices Program publishes a report making the case for education as an underinvested strategy for food systems change.

• The EU publishes its Protein Action Plan, recognizing the need for protein crop diversification and acknowledging plant-based foods as well established in Europe.

• Those Vegan Cowboys launch Margaret’s Finest, a collaborative research program exploring the potential of animal-free casein proteins through precision fermentation.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• Colima becomes the first Mexican state to pass a law requiring plant-based food options in workplaces and public spaces and prioritizing legumes as a primary protein source.

• Poland advances a bill that would make it harder for residents to take legal action against industrial factory farms, despite objections from animal and environmental advocacy groups.

• The UK’s Food Standards Agency publishes new guidance for cultivated meat regulatory approvals, as the country negotiates an EU trade agreement that could affect novel food standards.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• Compassion in World Farming releases EggTrack 2025, finding the average global cage-free transition rate has reached 85%, with more than 160 million hens now in cage-free systems.

• Mercy For Animals invites animal advocacy organizations to submit target companies for collaborative corporate outreach through its Collaborative Corporate Connections project.

• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Australia launches a certification pathway for the Better Chicken Commitment, requiring slower-growing breeds and improved welfare conditions.

💼 Jobs

• Career Advising Specialist, Content & Communications Specialist, and Talent Sourcing Specialist, Animal Advocacy Careers. Remote, global (Europe preferred). Apply by 23 July.

• Head of Content Strategy, Animal Legal Defense Fund. Remote, US. Apply by 29 July.

• Operations Coordinator, Shrimp Welfare Project. Remote, UK. Apply by 31 July.

• Senior Fundraising Administrator, The Humane League UK. Remote, UK. Apply by 2 August.

• Executive Director, Made In Hackney. Hackney, London. Apply by 7 August.

• Office Manager, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) UK. Hybrid, London. Apply by 7 August.

• People Operations and Organizational Care Team Member, Food Empowerment Project. Remote, US. Apply by 17 August.

• Operations Manager, Salesforce Administrator & Developer, and Social Media Strategist, Animal Equality. Remote, US.

• Digital Content Manager, PETA UK. Remote, mainland UK (monthly London office attendance).

• Event Manager, New Roots Institute. Remote, North America.

• Sector Development Strategist, Good Food Institute. Remote, Asia-Pacific region.

• Director of Industry Partnerships and Founder in Residence, Spring Innovation Fund. Remote, US.

Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good job boards.

💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering

Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.

Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:

• EA Opportunities Board

• Flockwork

• The Hive Slack Community (that’s us!)

🔥 Opportunities

• Worldshapers offers free media training for farmed animal and food system advocates. Sign up by 22 July (that’s today!).

• The Animal Defender Project hosts a free webinar, Implementing Good Governance: Nonprofit Board Orientation, for animal advocacy organizations, on 23 July.

• Rethink Priorities hosts a free webinar, How AI is Affecting Farmed Aquatic Animals, covering AI deployment across aquaculture and its welfare implications for fish and shrimp, on 28 July.

• Vegan Summit Budapest invites international speaker applications for its 7 November 2026 event. Submit a brief introduction, relevant experience, and speaking history to raul@prove.hu by 31 July.

• Electric Sheep opens applications for the Futurekind Fellowship, a free 12-week program at the intersection of AI and animal protection. Apply by 5 August.

• Faunalytics hosts Fauna Connections, a free virtual symposium connecting animal advocates with research to support their work, on 10 September.

• Ethical Transformation Impact opens applications for the Just Food Systems Leadership Fellowship, a six-week program for African university students in food systems and animal advocacy.

• Indraloka offers the Resilient Professionals Mastery Series, a program supporting animal advocates with burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma.

• International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics (ICARE) seeks volunteer mentors to support Animal Rights and Vegan Advocacy Network mentees in advancing their animal rights advocacy, research, or career transitions.

💰 Funding

• Liz Wheeler (Philanthropy Manager at Faunalytics) leads Hive’s Fundraising Community Call on 20 August, a community-led conversation about fundraising within the animal protection movement.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• EAGxBerkeley, 21–23 August. Berkeley, US.

• New Food Conference, 25 August. Berlin, Germany.

• EAGxSingapore, 29–30 August. Singapore, Singapore.

• Animal Grantmakers Conference, 16–17 September. Oklahoma City, US.

• CARE Conference, 17–20 September. Warsaw, Poland.

• EAGxIndia, 19–20 September. New Delhi, India.

• Plant Forward, 21–23 September. Saskatoon, Canada.

• EAGxOxford, 25–27 September. Oxford, UK

• Animal Law Advocacy Conference, 2–4 October. Toronto, Canada.

• EA Global: New York City, 16–18 October. New York, New York, US.

• The Animals, Technology and Law Conference, 23–25 October. Washington, D.C. US.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• Asia Farming Solutions publishes a scoping study on sow housing conditions and the feasibility of transitioning to higher-welfare systems in Philippine smallholder pig farming.

• Eurogroup for Animals publishes a report on five pressing health and biological risks from insect farming in the EU, with recommendations for policymakers.

• ICARE argues that the EU Livestock Strategy opens doors for animal welfare reform but risks reducing animal welfare to a competitiveness and branding strategy rather than legal protection for animals.

• Research shows that consumers in the US and Germany are more accepting of cultivated meat when labelled as “cultivated meat” rather than “lab-grown meat.”

• Researchers find that meat-free dietary identity, perceived barriers, and social environment are the strongest predictors of sustained participation in Meat Free Monday campaigns.

• Researchers find that public acceptance of genome editing in farmed animals hinges on clear animal welfare benefits, transparency, and institutional trust.

• Wildlife and Countryside Link publishes a report exposing the scale of bycatch deaths caused by the UK’s commercial fishing industry.

🎙️ Podcasts

• The Animal Liberation Hour

  • Interview with Almira Tanner, lead organizer of Direct Action Everywhere

  • Interview with Brian R. Hackett, Director of Government & Community Relations at Associated Humane Societies

• Fork the System

  • Renan Danielski on using sugar beets for cellular agriculture

• How I Learned to Love Shrimp

  • Jiri Krupa (& Jesse Marks) on using fundraising to win campaigns

• Lives Well Lived

  • A life of kindness with Amy Aela

• Our Hen House

  • The Hen Report: “Everything Changes, Yet Nothing Changes” | Horse Carriage Ban, Vegan Food Policy & Animal Testing News

🎥 Videos

• Animal Defense Partnership releases Creator Collaborations: The Contracts Behind the Content, a webinar covering practical insights for nonprofits partnering with creators and influencers.

• Aula Animal offers Education in Respect for Animals: Addressing Speciesism from the Classroom, exploring 15 years of bringing anti-speciesism education into schools.

• Faunalytics releases a live demo of the Faunalytics Lens, walking through how the free AI research assistant works.

🧡A note on my transition and the ED role

As mentioned above, I’ll be stepping down as Executive Director, and we’re opening a public search for my successor. I’ll be running the search, handing over properly, staying on the Hive board, and sticking around in the community!

All applications are evaluated blind where possible, so everyone starts on equal footing. We’re hosting a webinar about the role on 30 July, and the start date is flexible, between October 2026 and February 2027. Applications close 9 August.

Know someone outside the community who’d be great for this? Send this link their way. Send your questions to hiring@joinhive.org, or bring them to the webinar!

🤝 2 more virtual events from Hive

• Inside the Program: How to Make Your AVA Session Submission Stand Out, 29 July. Thinking about applying to speak or facilitate at AVA Summit Thailand? Join Hive and AVA International for a walkthrough of the program, what the selection team looks for, and how to make your session submission stand out, plus a live Q&A with AVA’s Program Coordinator, Brinda Poojary. RSVP now.

• Hive Community Conversations, 31 July. Come hang out for a laid-back mix of 1:1s and small-group chats, an easy way to meet farmed animal advocates from around the world. RSVP now.

💬 AVA Summit Ghana wrapped, but the conversation doesn't have to

If you were there at AVA Summit Ghana, we want to hear from you in the e-ava-summit channel in our Hive Slack community! We invite you to share a reflection, your photos, key takeaways, or a note of appreciation to someone you met (don’t forget to tag them!). Sharing your AVA takeaways in the e-ava-summit channel is a great way to turn your conference experience into momentum in your work for farmed animals. You’ll strengthen your network and visibility. Plus, post this month and you’ll be entered to win a little surprise from the Hive team.

Learn more + join in here!

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Before we start, we want to share our monthly action for July with you:

Heading to AVA Summit Ghana?🌍

Post in #e-ava-summit this month to connect with fellow attendees and make your conference even better. Plus, there are discounted tickets and a few giveaway tickets available for local advocates. Learn more here!

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Slack channels covered:

🧡 Introductions
🙏 Help Requests
💼 Jobs
🧑‍💻 Slack Updates
🤖 AI Discussion
👋 Opportunities and Help Offered
🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources

🧡 Introductions

Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
It’s never too late to introduce yourself! Here are some recent intros:

• Hi, I’m Olivia Ladinig, Head of Global Grantmaking at ProVeg International based in Vienna, Austria.

• Hi, I’m Aigerim Massabayeva, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, launching a cage-free initiative with a small team of volunteers.

• Hi, I’m Ijeoma Chiemela, based in Nigeria, leading AI/ML and genomics interventions across underserved communities, now moving upstream into farmed animal welfare.

• Hi, I’m Johnny Rasnic, a PhD student in Resource Economics at UMass Amherst, USA, writing my dissertation on animal welfare topics including meat taxation and consumer behaviour around ethical egg labels.

• Hi, I’m Michelle Taberer, based in Cape Town, South Africa, founder of Stop Live Export SA, a volunteer-led movement fighting for a ban on live animal exports by sea.

• Hi, I’m Chris Steindel, a senior operations leader and Chief of Staff based in Hamburg, Germany, looking to bring my professional toolkit into the farmed animal movement full-time.

🙏 Help Requests

Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Take a look at some of the requests that got great answers. 👀

• Unny got some recommendations for CRM systems.

• Ryan wanted to learn what a career in animal law actually looks like and got with some useful pointers.

• Benjahmin received some research and input on what predicts and characterizes vegan activists, plus an offer to collaborate on his proposed survey.

❓ Can you assist with these unanswered requests?

• Kashvi is looking for ideas or a project to build her research skills over the summer while contributing something impactful to animal welfare.

• Tiina is looking for anyone with experience calling former recurring donors to win them back, and whether it worked.

• Thanusan is looking for resources or leads on how to build and leverage your network for launching projects and securing funding.

💼 Jobs

One of our most popular channels is #06-job-postings! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.

• Media & PR Specialist, We Animals. Remote. Apply by 14 July.

• AI Enabling Manager, ProVeg International. Remote. Apply by 19 July.

• AIxAnimals Researcher, Rethink Priorities. Remote. Apply by 19 July.

• Director of Development, We Animals. Remote, ET-compatible timezone. Apply by 21 July.

• Director of Finance and Operations, New Roots Institute. Remote, USA, Canada.

• Operations & Automation Associate, Kickstarting for Good. Berlin.

• Development Specialist, New Roots Institute. Remote, USA, Canada.

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👩‍💻 Slack Updates

• Shoutout to our newest Pollinator!🐝

  Hannah Dunkake joined our amazing team of pollinators! Before becoming a pollinator, Hannah was already helping us write Hive Slack Threads!🧡

• Upcoming event🗓️

  • Hive Community Conversations, Friday, 31 July

Spotlight 🌟 AI Tools and AI Discussion are spaces for all things AI, from sharing resources and exploring best practices to learning from each other.

🤖 AI Tools and Discussion

Join #s-ai-tools and #c-ai-discussion for all kinds of AI conversations!

• Olivia wrote a blog post on her experience trialling automation platforms and why she chose not to keep them in her workflow.

• Rakefet highlighted some new Google Chrome features, including built-in AI tools and the ability to sign and fill out PDF forms directly in the browser.

• Richie shared a podcast appearance on Our Hen House, covering financial activism against factory farming and, in the second half, AI.

• Olivia shared a blog post on using NotebookLM to speed up report writing by pulling together large volumes of source material.

• Rakefet shared five prompts for using Claude as a private tutor to get functional in a new skill quickly.

👋 Opportunities and Help Offered

Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩

• Hive is offering a free talent matching service!

• Benjy can help non-technical folks turn loose ideas into tech products, from consulting to building apps and websites.

• Stray Dog Institute is sponsoring free AI Impact Hub memberships for the rest of 2026, with access to courses and tutorials on leveraging AI.

• Guillermo is offering free 1:1 accountability coaching for researchers, students, and operators in the EA space through GoalsWon’s pro bono programme.

• EA Germany is running a free 6-week online career planning course this autumn for students and professionals looking to plan a high-impact career. Apply by 16 August.

🔥 Funding

Looking for fundraising advice? Join the conversation in #s-fundraising or explore our resource page!

• The ASPCA Farm Animal Welfare Research Grant is offering up to $75,000 for US-based research on broiler breeds and pasture access. Apply by 10 July.

• Good Food Institute launched the Alternative Proteins Planning Grant, offering up to $25,000 for US and Canada-based researchers to prepare competitive alt protein research proposals. Apply by 20 July.

• The India Animal Welfare Funding Circle has opened its July 2026 RFP, open to organisations and individuals working on farmed animal welfare, food systems transformation, and movement building in India. Apply by 6 August.

• Kathy and Sara are hosting a free webinar on trust-based fundraising, "Five Ways to Grow Donor Trust and Raise More Money," on 9 July.

🎁 Tools & Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.

• Amit built a free legislative tracking tool called Animal Policy Watch, monitoring animal-related bills across Congress and all 50 US states with daily updates and plain-English summaries.

• Hereward shared a new consultation tool that helps organisations increase the number and quality of supporter responses to government consultations on animal issues.

• Ella highlighted Claude Corps, a new programme offering US nonprofits a free one-year AI fellow, $10,000 implementation grant, and free Claude access.

• Richard recommended JournoFinder, an affordable media database for finding journalists by niche, now with direct Claude and ChatGPT integration.

• Louise shared an article on why vegan lifestyle changes often don’t stick and how a habit lens can make advocacy more effective.

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This edition’s got extra dense Opportunities and Research sections, including plenty of free, online events and tools, plus research spanning intervention evidence, alternative proteins in Asia, livestock investments, and more. Let’s get into it!

The most popular link from Hive Highlights late June 2026 was Animal Charity Evaluators’ (ACE) announcement of six charities selected for in-depth evaluation in 2026.

To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:

From Movement News

• ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law: The US Senate Agriculture Committee’s Farm Bill draft excludes the Save Our Bacon Act, preserving state-level animal welfare laws on intensive confinement.

From Jobs & Opportunities

• 🔥 Opportunities: Vegan Hacktivists opens registration for Amplify, a series of free online courses for animal advocates covering strategic decision-making with AI, workflow automation, and AI foundations.

• 💰 Funding: Spring Innovation Fund launches as a nonprofit venture studio using philanthropic capital to incubate startups improving farmed animal welfare at commercial scale. Apply as an entrepreneur-in-residence or seek funding for an existing startup.

P.S. I wrote about my sabbatical on Substack: why I took it, the worries that nearly stopped me, and what a month of rest gave back. I hope you’ll find it useful, especially if you’re a leader thinking about longer breaks for yourself or your team!

Warmly,
Sofia, Chelsea, and the Hive team

How to navigate Hive Highlights

Every two weeks, Hive sends you the latest updates (click to jump):

1. Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other

2. Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events

3. Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos

4. Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!

Other ways to read this newsletter: Extensions Jetwriter AI (to summarize posts) or Read Aloud.

🐖 Animal Welfare

• Acqua Fiuggi and Lutech Group drop their Milan Fashion Week partnerships over the event’s continued use of fur, following campaigns by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade.

• The Fishing Industry Association of Papua New Guinea includes aquatic animal welfare as a priority in its new five-year Impact Report, supported by the Aquatic Life Institute.

• Over 80% of major restaurant chain locations in the Philippines (up from nearly zero in 2022) and 84% of major hotel group locations commit to sourcing cage-free eggs.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• The European Union pledges farmer support for diversification into plant-based crops as part of its upcoming protein plan.

• The Good Food Institute releases new US foodservice market data showing plant-based dairy gaining ground in 2025 while analog meat, eggs, and cheese lost share.

• One Just World launches the Cluster Changemakers Accelerator, a 20-week program bringing together 10 youth-led groups across India to advance plant-based food systems.

• Pablo AMC models the potential market share of cultivated meat, finding beef and seafood most likely to be replaced while chicken and pork remain difficult due to their feed efficiency.

• ProVeg International publishes modeling showing that shifting European Union public food procurement to 85% plant-based menus could generate €11.61 billion in annual savings.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• Kenya becomes the first African country to launch a national standard operating procedure for fish welfare in aquaculture.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy launches an Omnibus Tracker monitoring how the European Commission’s “omnibus” regulations will impact animals.

• ProVeg Brazil launches a rural transition pilot helping livestock farmers shift to plant-based agroforestry, alongside research finding the switch could increase producer income.

• The Veterinary Association for Farm Animal Welfare seeks a volunteer Treasurer to oversee financial operations for the only US veterinary organization devoted solely to farm animal welfare.

💼 Jobs

• AI Enabling Manager, ProVeg International. Remote, global (core hours 10am-4pm CET). Apply by 19 July.

• (Senior) Researcher, AI x Animals, Rethink Priorities. Remote, global. Apply by 19 July.

• Director of Development, We Animals. Remote, global (Eastern Time overlap preferred). Apply by 21 July.

• Associate Director, Global Donor Experience & Engagement (apply by 22 July), Global Senior Mid-Level Giving Manager (apply by 1 August); and Global Senior Prospect Research Manager (apply by 14 August), Compassion in World Farming. Hybrid, Godalming, UK.

• Development Specialist and Director of Finance & Operations, New Roots Institute. Remote, North America.

• Operations Officer and Program Officer, Animal Empathy Philippines. Hybrid, Manila, Philippines.

Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good job boards.

💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering

Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.

Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:

• EA Opportunities Board

• Flockwork

• The Hive Slack Community (that’s us!)

🔥 Opportunities

• The Humane League and coalition partners host a virtual Farm Bill lobby training to oppose the Save Our Bacon provision, offering a crash course in effective political advocacy, on 8 July.

• Animal Defender Project hosts a webinar, Funding Across Borders: Key Legal Concepts for Foreign Grants, on 9 July.

• The New York University Food Impact Program hosts an online panel, Federal Preemption and the Future of Farmed Animal Welfare Law, on the Save Our Bacon Act and its implications for US state animal welfare laws, on 10 July.

• Animal Justice hosts an online panel, Influencing for Animals, featuring five social media creators sharing practical tips on expanding your reach for animals, on 15 July.

• Rethink Priorities seeks expressions of interest from potential founders to launch new organizations focused on neglected animal issues including invertebrate welfare, wild animal welfare, AI and animals, and welfare technology, with 3–6 months of funded runway available. Apply by 19 July.

• Animal Think Tank and Better Food Foundation host a webinar, Plant-Based Messaging That Works: Narrative Strategy for Food Systems, on 29 July.

• We Animals opens its July story pitching window for photojournalists, prioritizing stories on industrial animal agriculture, animal sentience, and systemic change for animals. Submit pitches by 31 July.

• Asia for Animals (AfA) opens registration for AfA CONNECT 2026, a virtual networking event for animal protection professionals across Asia, on 19 August.

• Faunalytics launches the Faunalytics Lens, an AI-powered research and synthesis tool combining frontier AI with its full Research Library to provide cited, data-driven insights on any animal advocacy topic.

• GoalsWon offers free one-on-one human accountability coaching for researchers, students, and operators in the effective altruism space.

• Scarlet Spark invites animal advocates to complete its 2026 Movement Engagement Survey, helping build a global picture of retention, performance, and well-being.

💰 Funding

• The India Animal Welfare Funding Circle opens its July 2026 grant round for organizations and individuals working on farmed animal welfare and foods systems transformation in India. Apply by 6 August.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• AVA Ghana, 16–19 July. Accra, Ghana.

• EAGxBerkeley, 21–23 August. Berkeley, US.

• New Food Conference, 25 August. Berlin, Germany.

• EAGxSingapore, 29–30 August. Singapore, Singapore.

• Animal Grantmakers Conference, 16–17 September. Oklahoma City, US.

• CARE Conference, 17–20 September. Warsaw, Poland.

• EAGxIndia, 19–20 September. New Delhi, India.

• Plant Forward, 21–23 September. Saskatoon, Canada.

• EAGxOxford, 25–27 September. Oxford, UK

• Animal Law Advocacy Conference, 2–4 October. Toronto, Canada.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• ACE publishes a review of the evidence behind investor advocacy as an animal advocacy intervention.

• AfA releases a report examining the opportunities and challenges shaping alternative proteins across 13 Asian countries.

• Bryant Research publishes new modeling on the food security implications of zero-grazing dairy systems in the UK.

• Faunalytics publishes its July 2026 Index, a monthly data roundup from recent animal advocacy research, alongside new survey research on Indian Gen Z attitudes toward plant-based eating.

• The Institute for Future Food Systems publishes its May 2026 Studies & Reports of the Month digest, covering topics from structural food systems change to industry influence on research conclusions.

• Researchers find plant-based products contain roughly twice as many food additives as comparable animal-based products in a UK supermarket analysis, though this does not necessarily indicate increased health risk.

• Researchers find that World Bank Group livestock investments in Africa tripled to $3 billion per year between 2021 and 2024.

• Researchers review two decades of scientific advances in fish welfare, highlighting growing evidence for fish cognition, pain perception, and welfare assessment tools.

• Researchers synthesize psychological research on speciesism and the processes that sustain animal exploitation.

• Rethink Priorities publishes the second part of its AI and aquaculture report, analyzing the current state of AI deployment in fish farming.

• Sentient Media examines whether plant-based ‘nudges’ are an effective and affordable path to dietary change.

• Stop Financing Factory Farming finds that livestock’s environmental footprint has grown since the Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2006 Livestock’s Long Shadow report.

• The World Organisation for Animal Health publishes its 2026 State of the World’s Animal Health report.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Animal Law Podcast

  • Wayne Hsiung’s Landmark Animal Rescue Appeal Wins Some, Loses Some: What it means for the Right to Rescue

• Our Hen House

  • “It Doesn’t Seem Fair” | Animal cruelty laws, SCOTUS & constitutional rights for animals

• The Rich Roll Podcast

  • What Happened to the Vegan Movement? Rick & Simon Hill on the rise and fall of plant-based eating

📚 Books

• Farm Sanctuary: The Story of a Movement by Gene Baur. September 2026.

• Intelligence of Love: How Montessori and Veganism Can Save the World by Martha Readyoff. October 2026.

🎥 Videos

• Animal Activism Collective shares Local Activism: The True Power of Our Movement, a Grassroots Animal Rights Summit panel on running effective local animal rights groups.

• The London School of Economics releases The hidden truth behind pig farming and meat production?, a short film examining how veterinary institutions and commercial interests shape pig welfare standards.

Join us at our next Hive Community Conversations! 👋🏼

Come for a relaxed, welcoming session of 1:1s and small-group chats. A low-lift way to connect with farmed animal advocates from around the world! Friday, 31 July, register here.

Going to AVA Summit Ghana? 🌍

We want your AVA this month to strengthen your impact for farmed animals for a long time to come. But the Whova conference app you’ll use during the event stops being available 3 months after. Then you’re stuck with follow-ups across LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp, business cards…it can be a lot. That’s why Hive Slack aims to be the year-round home for your entire AVA network!

From our team, our Generalist Therese Veith and our Pollinator Maxwell Asampana are going — say Hi(ve) if you’re there!

Our ask for July: if you’re going to AVA Summit Ghana, post in the e-ava-summit channel anytime this month. Introduce yourself, share what you’re speaking on or exhibiting, ask the organizers a question, trade Accra tips, or drop your photos and reflections once you’re back. You’ll even be entered to win a little surprise from the Hive team.

Learn more + join in here!

Not a Hive Slack community member yet? Register here.

New: weekly AI office hours 🤖

Richie (AI Impact Director at Vegan Hacktivists) and Steven (AI Programs Director at Vegan Hacktivists) are now hosting weekly AI office hours! Hop on the call to brainstorm, troubleshoot, or ask any questions about using AI tools for your farmed animal advocacy work.

Richie: every Tuesday, 9-10am GMT (best for Africa, Asia, Europe)
Steven: every Thursday, 4-5pm ET (best for the Americas)

Head to #s-ai-tools on the Hive Slack to join!

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This edition is heavy on funding news, and if you’re eyeing the Conference on Animal Rights in Europe (CARE) 2026 in Warsaw, early bird tickets close 30 June.

Lots to buzz about. Let’s get into it!

The most popular link from Hive Highlights early June 2026 was Rethink Priorities' launch of the Cross-Cause Fund, a new giving fund that uses cause-neutral research to allocate donor contributions across cause areas, including animal welfare.

To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:

From Jobs & Opportunities

• 💰 Funding: Animal Alliance Asia opens applications for its ReRoot Asia Fund, offering $500–$5,000 grants for grassroots initiatives across six Asian countries that transform individual food choices or institutional menu offerings toward a plant-based diet. Apply by 30 June.

• 💰 Funding: The Good Food Institute (GFI) opens applications for Advancing Alternative Proteins Planning Grants, offering up to $25,000 per project for US and Canada-based researchers preparing alternative protein research proposals. Apply by 20 July.

• 🤝 Upcoming External Events: CARE opens early bird ticket sales for its 11th annual conference, taking place 17–20 September in Warsaw, Poland and online. Early bird pricing available until 30 June.

📨 P.S. Know someone who'd benefit from Hive Highlights? Forward this edition their way. We'd love to grow our community!

Warmly,
Angel, Chelsea, and the Hive team

How to navigate Hive Highlights

Every two weeks, Hive sends you the latest updates (click to jump):

1. Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other

2. Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events

3. Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos

4. Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!

Other ways to read this newsletter: Extensions Jetwriter AI (to summarize posts) or Read Aloud.

🐖 Animal Welfare

• Aurelia Adhiambo argues that Africa’s rapidly expanding animal agriculture sector makes it a critical priority for animal welfare funders and movement builders.

• Jacob Ayang and Cheslyn Ceaser argue that Africa’s animal welfare movement can compress Europe’s 30-year reform timeline to 5–10 years through coordinated institutional engagement and strategic framing.

• James Brobin questions the confidence placed in Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weights Project, arguing that the methodology for comparing welfare ranges across species has limitations.

• Hazo argues that AI-driven disruption could make animal agriculture unusually susceptible to displacement by AI-native startups, with implications for advocacy strategy.

• A neurotech company claims to have implanted brain chips in cows used for dairy to stimulate milk production, raising serious animal welfare and ethics concerns.

• Sixty-five US organizations file a petition urging the Food and Drug Administration to end routine antibiotic use in livestock, citing links to antibiotic resistance and poor animal welfare.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• Beyond Impact publishes a white paper calling for investment to shift from plant-based brands toward the ingredient and enabling technologies underpinning the food system transition.

• GFI Europe finds that plant-based food sales grew in four of six major European markets in 2025 as the price gap with animal products narrowed.

• ProVeg Portugal launches a National Plant Protein Strategy proposal, bringing together a coalition of 81 organizations including farmers, scientists, and nonprofit organizations.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• Animal Policy Watch launches as a free tool for animal advocacy organizations, tracking and summarizing federal and state animal-related legislation across all 50 US states.

• The European Parliament passes a ban on meat-related terms for plant-based and cultivated food products, pending Council approval.

• A Lima court rules that Peru’s largest university must permanently offer vegan menu options, marking the first positive judgment on veganism in Latin America.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• The African Food Ecosystem Series launches as a free virtual training program for early-stage food system advocates and founders across Africa, beginning 24 July.

• Animal Charity Evaluators announces six charities selected for in-depth evaluation in 2026, with recommendations to be published 10 November.

• Metaculus, Sentient Futures, and The Unjournal launch the Animal Futures Tournament, a free forecasting competition on decision-relevant animal welfare questions. Open through 1 July 2027.

💼 Jobs

• Multimedia Video Editor, The Humane League. Remote, US. Apply by 26 June.

• Communications and Marketing Manager, Mercy For Animals. Remote, Mexico. Apply by 3 July.

• Executive Director, Food Solutions Action & Americans for the Common Good. Remote, US (DC or San Francisco Bay Area preferred). Apply by 3 July.

• Media & PR Specialist (part-time contract), We Animals. Remote, global. Apply by 14 July.

• Research & Outreach Officer, Social Change Lab. Remote, strong UK preference. Apply by 19 July.

• Tenure-Track Animal Law Faculty, Lewis & Clark Law School Center for Animal Law Studies. Portland, Oregon. Screening interviews begin September 2026.

• Chief Development Officer, Mercy For Animals. Remote, US.

• Operations & Automation Associate, Kickstarting For Good. Hybrid, Berlin, Germany.

• Senior International People Operations Manager, ProVeg International. Remote, global (core hours 10am–4pm CET).

Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good job boards.

💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering

Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.

Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:

• EA Opportunities Board

• Flockwork

• The Hive Slack Community (that’s us!)

🔥 Opportunities

• The Animal Defender Project hosts a free webinar, Funding Across Borders: Key Legal Concepts for Foreign Grants, on 24 June (that’s today!).

• Just Be Cause Consulting hosts a free webinar, The WHY of Stewardship, for animal advocacy nonprofits, on 25 June.

• Animal Advocacy Conference Asia hosts a free online session, Sentient Horizons: Just Futures for the Non-Human World, on 26 June.

• Stop Financing Factory Farming and World Animal Justice host a free webinar, Livestock’s Lengthening Shadow: 20 Years After Livestock’s Long Shadow, on 26 June.

• International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics hosts a free online seminar, The EU’s Overdue Animal Welfare Reform: Where Next?, on 1 July.

• Welfare Matters extends the application deadline for its Farmed Animal Welfare Incubator, supporting individuals in Southeast Asia, to 1 July.

• Rethink Priorities hosts a free webinar, Alleviating Animal Suffering Through the Eradication of the New World Screwworm, on 2 July.

• Sentient Futures seeks mentors with expertise in AI, animals, or the long-term future of sentient beings for its 10-week Project Incubator, running 15 August to 30 October. Apply by 8 July.

• Coach Amy hosts a free online workshop, From Burnout to Brilliance: 3 Keys for Vegan and Plant-Based Changemakers, for animal advocates, on 13 July.

• Stray Dog Institute offers 100 complimentary AI Impact Hub memberships to animal advocates for the remainder of 2026, covering courses, tools, and live sessions.

💰 Funding

• The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opens its 2026 Farm Animal Welfare Research Grant, offering up to $75,000 for US-based research on chickens bred for meat. Apply by 10 July.

• The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association opens applications for the Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship, offering up to $2,500 for women scholars in food and agricultural economics. Apply by 12 October.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• EA Summit: Vietnam, 11 July. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

• AVA Ghana, 16–19 July. Accra, Ghana.

• EA Summit: Nigeria, 25 July. Abuja, Nigeria.

• EA Summit: Taiwan, 1 August. Taipei, Taiwan.

• EAGxBerkeley, 21–23 August. Berkeley, US.

• New Food Conference, 25 August. Berlin, Germany.

• EAGxSingapore, 29–30 August. Singapore, Singapore.

• CARE Conference, 17–20 September. Warsaw, Poland.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• A meta-analysis finds that livestock industry-funded studies are 16 times more likely to report favorable conclusions about meat consumption than independent research.

• The Aquatic Welfare for African Sustainability and Health selects egg disinfection as its priority pilot intervention for improving farmed fish welfare in Ghana, following research across eight commercial cage farms.

• Researchers find that AI video models can assess pain in cattle as accurately as trained veterinarians, offering a scalable tool for farmed animal welfare monitoring.

• Rethink Priorities publishes a report mapping AI use cases against the cultivated meat sector’s established bottlenecks, with recommendations for funders.

• Thomas Manandhar-Richardson compiles a practical guide to finding animal advocacy research beyond academic search engines.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Better Life for Animals

  • Why Grassroots Political Action May Be the Future of Animal Advocacy with Amit Dhuleshia

• The Disclosure Podcast

  • Veganism, Bad Arguments, and Moral Philosophy with Dr. Jack Symes

• Fork the System

  • Margrethe Aanesen on the future of the Norwegian aquaculture sector

• Investment Climate Podcast

  • Jennifer Côté on Navigating a 14-Month Biotech Seed Round and Making Whole Milk from Mammary Cells

• Our Hen House

  • Can Finance Activism End Factory Farming? AI, Divestment, and Animal Advocacy with Richie Richardson

  • Screwworms, Spy Drones, and a Ballot Initiative That Could Break the Meat Industry

• The Vegan Report

  • Japan: Towards a Vegan Future?

📚 Books

• Animals in EU Economic Law: A New Approach to Protecting Sentient Beings by Aude-Solveig Epstein and Alice Di Concetto

🎥 Videos

• Animal Justice releases its Big Ag Front Groups, Disinformation, & Activist Repression webinar, examining how Canada’s animal agriculture industry works to suppress advocacy.

• Animal Activism Collective releases two videos from the Grassroots Animal Rights Summit: How Animal Welfare Campaigns are Ending Factory Farming and How Grassroots Activists Can Change the Laws for Animals.

5,000+ advocates — someone's got what you need 🤝🏾

Got a roadblock in your farmed animal work? The help-requests channel in the Hive Slack Community is the place to get unstuck. Whether you need a collaborator, a recommendation, some advice, or a quick sense-check, post it there. With 5,000+ advocates across 100+ countries, someone in this community has what you need. Ask or respond to a help request by 30 June and you'll be entered to win a prize. Share your help request today!

Join us at our next Hive Community Conversations! 👋🏼

Come for a relaxed, welcoming session of 1:1s and small-group chats. A low-lift way to connect with farmed animal advocates from around the world! Thursday 25 June, register here.

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A lot has been happening in the farmed animal movement since we last updated you three weeks ago. Today’s Jobs & Opportunities section is especially dense. We’d be interested to know what you think of this edition, just hit reply to share your thoughts.

The most popular link from Hive Highlights late May 2026 was Animal Charity Evaluators' (ACE) latest Movement Grants announcement, featuring 25 projects and organizations globally.

To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:

From Jobs & Opportunities

• 💰 Funding: Coefficient Giving opens two major requests for proposals: for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes (approximately $7 million, submit letter of intent by 1 July), and for Alternative Protein Research and Development (up to $10 million, submit application by 10 August).

• 🔥 Opportunities: Stray Dog Institute invites animal advocacy organizations to complete its 2026 State of the Movement Survey, helping map the movement’s resources and funding allocations globally. Summary results will be published by the end of 2026 and shared with the full movement, including funders, to inform strategy. Share your thoughts by 30 September.

• 🔥 Opportunities: Rethink Priorities launches the Cross-Cause Fund, a new giving fund that uses cause-neutral research to allocate donor contributions across cause areas, including animal welfare. Right now, the animal welfare recommended allocations are EA Animal Welfare Fund, and two funds managed by The Navigation Fund.

P.S. There's still time to complete the short AI survey from Hive, Vegan Hacktivists, and Stray Dog Institute. Ten respondents will each direct $250 to a movement organization of their choice. Entries accepted through 12 June.

Warmly,
Megan, Chelsea, and the Hive team

How to navigate Hive Highlights

Every two weeks, Hive sends you the latest updates (click to jump):

1. Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other

2. Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events

3. Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos

4. Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!

Other ways to read this newsletter: Extensions Jetwriter AI (to summarize posts) or Read Aloud.

🐖 Animal Welfare

• New World screwworm reaches the US for the first time in six decades, with five confirmed cases in Texas and New Mexico, raising concern about the impact on farmed animals.

• New York’s state legislature passes a bill banning octopus farming, pending the Governor’s signature to become law.

• Portland, Oregon passes a foie gras ban requiring restaurants to stop selling the product, the result of years of coordinated advocacy across multiple organizations.

• A UK government advisory committee warns that breeding animals for lower emissions and higher productivity risks intensifying animal suffering.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• An international panel of 64 scientists recommends a predominantly plant-based diet as the evidence-based minimum standard for healthcare systems worldwide.

• Germany announces a new biotechnology roadmap including a national innovation hub for cultivated meat and precision-fermented proteins, set to open in 2027.

• New retail data from Germany, Spain, and the UK shows plant proteins are now cheaper than processed meat in some markets, with average meat prices rising 29–42% since 2019.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• Ontario’s Court of Appeal overturns a 2024 ruling that struck down key sections of Ontario’s ag gag law, which was designed to silence whistleblowers exposing animal cruelty on farms.

• Peru’s Congress advances two farmed animal welfare bills: one requiring transparent egg labeling and one mandating pain relief during piglet mutilation procedures.

• The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office forces the release of inspection reports on Scottish salmon farms, setting a landmark transparency precedent for animal welfare accountability.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• AVA International launches AVAx, a new series of national advocacy conferences designed to strengthen local farmed animal advocacy communities.

• Stray Dog Institute shares State of the Movement: Funding Practices, a report on funding practices in the farmed animal advocacy movement in 2025.

• Te Protejo publishes results from its Cruelty Free Commitment pilot, a six-month habit change program that saw an increase of up to 38% of participants moving towards a plant-based diet.

💼 Jobs

• Junior and Mid-level Marketer, FarmKind. Remote. Apply by 14 June.

• Programs Directors & Interim Executive Director, Vegan and Animal Rights Conference. Remote, UK. Apply by 20 June.

• Movement Grants Manager, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). Remote, US hours. Apply by 21 June.

• Digital Communications Associate, Veganuary. Remote, India. Apply by 22 June.

• Director of Programs, Fish Welfare Initiative. India. Apply by 28 June.

• SciTech Manager, Good Food Institute APAC. Remote, China, Beijing preferred. Apply by 28 June.

• Finance Associate (UK & US), Impact Ops. Remote, UK hours overlap required. Apply by 30 June.

• Researcher, ACE. Remote, US. Apply by 30 June.

• Program Intern/Consultant, Fall 2026 (part-time), Food Policy Pathways. Remote, US. Apply by 15 July.

• Program Officer, Arthropoda Foundation. Remote. Apply by 15 July (rolling basis).

• Managing Director, US/Canada, Mercy For Animals. Remote, US or Canada.

• Director of Global Philanthropy (Major Gifts), The Humane League. Remote, US.

• Digital Product Lead, Animal Rights and Defence of the Environment. Remote, CET-compatible timezone.

• Executive Assistant, NutritionFacts.org. Remote.

• Marketing Coordinator/Project Management Marketing and Campaigns Coordinator, Animal Equality. Remote, Germany.

• Fundraising Manager, Animal Equality. Remote, Italy.

• Campaigns Associate and Copywriter, Animal Equality. Remote, Mexico.

• Donor Administration and Tax Compliance Coordinator, Full Stack Developer, and Senior Designer, Animal Equality. Remote, Spain.

• Undercover Investigator, Animal Equality. Remote, UK.

• Undercover Investigator, Animal Equality. Remote, US.

• Social Media Generalist (Content Creator) (fixed-term, until 30 September 2026), Animal Rising. Remote, UK.

• Webmaster (part-time, freelance), Our Planet. Theirs Too. Remote.

Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good job boards.

💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering

Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.

Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:

• EA Opportunities Board

• Flockwork

• The Hive Slack Community (that’s us!)

🔥 Opportunities

• Animal Grantmakers hosts a free online webinar, Protecting Animals of All Kinds through U.S. Policy, on 10 June (today!).

• Animal Justice hosts Big Ag Front Groups, Disinformation, & Activist Repression, a free online panel on industry tactics used to silence animal advocates, on 10 June (today!).

• Scarlet Spark seeks native speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Mandarin to pilot its Feedback Skills On-Demand course. Sign up by 12 June.

• Inner Wealth offers free leadership wellbeing support to one farmed animal advocacy incubator, fellowship, or accelerator serving participants in Asia. Apply by 15 June.

• Violet Studios opens applications for its Volunteer Mentorship Program, a 3-month collaboration for creative professionals. Apply by 15 June.

• Growth and Impact Group hosts a free webinar, How to Make the Most out of December: The Art and Science of Year-End Regular Donor Campaigns, on 16 June.

• The ProVeg Incubator opens applications for its second cohort of Fast-track to Impact, a free three-month program for early-stage alternative protein startups globally. Apply by 21 June.

• Vegan Marketing opens applications for the Vegan Impact Lab, a free marketing and communications accelerator for animal advocacy organizations in Latin America. Apply by 22 June.

• Scarlet Spark opens applications for one-on-one organizational support for five animal advocacy organizations, with Global South teams especially encouraged to apply. Apply by 2 July.

• Tilt Collective seeks a volunteer board member with senior finance, legal, or governance expertise to strengthen oversight of its philanthropic food systems initiative. Apply by 12 July.

• Ambitious Impact opens expressions of interest for its first animal welfare-focused charity incubation round, launching in early 2027 in partnership with Shrimp Welfare Project co-founder Aaron Boddy.

• Food Policy Pathways seeks current or former US government staff working on food, agriculture, or health policy to join its mentor network and support emerging public servants.

• Switch4Good offers a free, tested digital campaign toolkit for organizations to counter meat and dairy industry messaging, with creative assets, cited science, and strategy support available.

💰 Funding

• The Fondation Droit Animal opens applications for the Louis Schweitzer Law Prize, a €4,000 award for French-speaking legal practitioners working in animal law. Apply by 30 June.

• The Microsanctuary Resource Center accepts applications for its microgrant program before the program goes on indefinite hiatus after nearly 10 years. Apply by 31 July.

• Journalismfund Europe opens applications for The Invisible Life Grant Programme, offering funding for cross-border investigative journalism teams reporting on farmed animal welfare. Apply by 27 August.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• Vegan Creator Con, 13–14 June. Los Angeles, US.

• EA Summit: Vietnam, 11 July. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

• AVA Ghana, 16–19 July. Accra, Ghana.

• EA Summit: Nigeria, 25 July. Abuja, Nigeria

• EA Summit: Taiwan, 1 August. Taipei, Taiwan.

• EAGxBerkeley, 21–23 August. Berkeley, US.

• New Food Conference, 25 August. Berlin, Germany.

• EAGxSingapore, 29–30 August. Singapore, Singapore.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• Animetrics releases new research on Turkish consumer attitudes toward plant-based diets, with practical recommendations for advocates on messaging and engagement strategies.

• Daniel Dorado argues that health-based vegan advocacy may be counterproductive, raising concerns about substitution effects, methodological limitations, and the weakening of ethical discourse around animal advocacy.

• The Institute for Future Food Systems releases its April Studies & Reports roundup, covering topics like greenwashing in the meat and dairy sector.

• matthes argues that major animal welfare interventions, including shrimp stunning, cage-free reforms, and alternative proteins, have weak evidence bases, calling for R&D to become the movement’s top funding priority.

• The Plant Based Foods Institute releases new US regional data mapping where plant-based demand is strongest.

• ProVeg China and the Chinese Institute of Food Science & Technology publish a Blue Paper on the top ten technical bottlenecks for alternative protein development in China.

• The Stockholm Environment Institute finds that insect farming frequently falls short of its environmental and animal welfare promise in a new review of the industry.

• Tiny Beam Fund publishes its 2026 list of priority research questions on the impacts of industrial animal agriculture in low- and middle-income countries.

• ACE publishes a review of the evidence behind citizen-led ballot initiatives and referendums as animal advocacy interventions.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Animal Law Podcast

  • When the Law Fails Farmworkers: J-1 Visa Exploitation, Labor Trafficking, and the Hidden Cost of Cheap Meat

• The Animal Turn

  • Psychoanalysis and the Meat-Commodity with Teddy Duncan Jr.

• Better Life for Animals

  • Breaking Through the Trance: Clare Mann on Animal Advocacy and Human Psychology

• Future of Foods

  • The First Ever Cultivated Meat Farm with Ira van Eelen, co-founder of RespectFarms

• How I Learned to Love Shrimp

  • Anne Hilhorst on hitting companies where it hurts

• Lives Well Lived

  • The Future of Food with Bruce Friedrich

• Our Hen House

  • “Moments of Respair”: Beagle Rescue, Animal Activism & Do We Need Hope? with Gretchen Primack

  • Tim Woodward of Animal Rescue Corps: Large-Scale Animal Rescue, Cruelty Response & the Fight for Animals

• PLANT STRONG Podcast

  • How Alternative Meat Could Replace Industrial Animal Agriculture with Bruce Friedrich

🎥 Videos

• Animal Justice debuts a new educational video exposing how Canada’s system of industry self-regulation shapes farmed animal welfare standards.

• Animals’ View releases Insects, a short documentary exploring the reality of industrial insect farming and the ethical implications.

• Faunalytics shares a webinar discussing key findings from The Aspirational Plate, its systematic review of vegan and vegetarian dietary rates across 58 countries.

In the Hive community, there’s someone who can help you 🤝🏾

Feeling a little stuck in your efforts for farmed animals? Now is a great time to get unblocked. Head to the help-requests channel in the Hive Slack Community and find the collaborator, advice, recommendation, or feedback that you need right now. With over 5,000 advocates across 100+ countries, there’s a community member that can help you. Ask or respond to a help request by 30 June and be entered to win a prize. Share your help request today!

Join us at our next Hive Community Conversations! 👋🏼

Expect a friendly and welcoming atmosphere with short 1:1s, small-group conversations, and a group photo to close. A great way to meet people across the global farmed animal movement without leaving your desk. Thursday 25 June, register here.

¡Dos eventos en español este mes! 🌎

This month, our LatAm Ambassador Alexia Dean offers two Hive events in Spanish! Please join us or share with Spanish-speaking farmed animal advocates.

Hive Community Conversations en español: This event is designed for farmed animal advocates across LatAm and anyone interested in this work. It will be a welcoming space to connect, exchange ideas, and explore regional challenges in farmed animal advocacy and activism. Wednesday 17 June, register here.

Hive Connect Latin America - Foundations for Building your Theory of Change: In this event, Claudia Escorza, Latin America regional coordinator at Stop Financing Factory Farming (S3F) and founder of Agencia Moral, shares the foundations for building a theory of change. Drawing on her experience at Mercy For Animals and The Humane League, Claudia offers an accessible walkthrough of the key concepts every animal advocate needs. Wednesday 24 June, register here.

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Slack channels covered:

🧡 Introductions
🙏 Help Requests
💼 Jobs
🤖 AI Tools
👋 Opportunities and Help Offered
🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources

🧡 Introductions

Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
It’s never too late to introduce yourself! Here are some recent intros:

• Hi, I’m Iván, a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer based in Lima, Peru.

• Hi, I’m Amanda Romero, Director of Veganuary Spain, based in Madrid, Spain and City Councillor at Madrid City Council.

• Hi, I'm Marcus Ajayi, a Research Analyst at Glued Insights based in Abuja, Nigeria, with a background in nutrition and food systems, interested in evidence-based approaches to farmed animal welfare in African food systems.

• Hi, I’m Jana Kalb, a veterinarian currently completing a PhD in animal welfare in Germany, specializing in science communication and digital learning tools.

• Hi, I’m Alex Johny, a poultry welfare researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, looking for new directions in science, policy, and research in animal welfare or alternative proteins.

• Hi, I’m Airi Yamada, Senior Corporate Consultant at AWCP based in Tokyo, supporting Japanese companies in transitioning to cage-free egg systems.

🙏 Help Requests

Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Check out some of these successfully answered requests. You might find some inspiration for your help request this month! 👀

• Laura got several recommendations for people and organizations working on alternative proteins through decentralized, cooperative, and food-sovereignty-focused models.

• Danielle received some input on what makes a job application stand out amid hundreds of qualified candidates.

• Nirali was pointed to a tool that turns text into short, illustrated summary videos with an editable script.

❓ Can you assist with these unanswered requests?

• René is seeking ideas on how to assemble a database of AI–animal incidents in factory farms, particularly around precision livestock farming systems.

• Aigerim is looking for examples of strategies, theories of change, and roadmaps to inspire her cage-free initiative in Kazakhstan.

• Ana is looking for advice and benchmark metrics on running a Google Ad Grant program.

And don’t forget to post your own help request this month! 💁

💼 Jobs

One of our most popular channels is #06-job-postings! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.

• Junior and Mid-level Marketer, FarmKind. Remote. Apply by 14 June.

• SciTech Manager, Good Food Institute APAC. Remote, China, Beijing preferred. Apply by 28 June.

• Researcher, Animal Charity Evaluators. Remote. Apply by 30 June.

• Program Intern/Consultant, Food Policy Pathways. Remote, USA. Apply by 15 July.

• Program Officer, Arthropoda Foundation. Remote. Apply by 15 July.

• Director of Global Philanthropy, The Humane League. Remote, USA.

• Digital Product Lead, ARDE Global. Remote, CET-compatible timezone.

• Executive Assistant, NutritionFacts.org. Remote.

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🤖AI Tools

Join #s-ai-tools to discuss and share helpful AI tools!

• Max received some recommendations for free AI note-taking tools.

• Sofia shared a page detailing her use of AI for management and leadership tasks.

• Rakefet shared a NotebookLM chatbot built from Dr. Michael Greger’s NutritionFacts video collection, letting you search the whole channel via chat.

• Max was pointed to reliable sources for AI tips and advice due to the rapidly changing nature of the field.

• Dominik shared Unabyss, a tool that connects your apps like Gmail, Drive, or Slack to AI assistants like Claude via one-click MCP so they have your context.

👋 Opportunities and Help Offered

Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩

• Ronan is volunteering AI and tech help to organizations looking to build workflows, choose the right tools, or improve their digital setup.

• Dan is offering pro bono help using AI tools like Claude Code to build apps, automate tasks, analyze datasets, or tackle research projects.

• Katie is offering informal finance sector support for campaigns looking to engage institutional investors like banks, pension funds, and asset managers.

• Vadivu is offering free leadership and wellbeing support to one Asia-focused farmed animal incubator, fellowship, or accelerator. Apply by 15 June.

🔥 Funding

Looking for fundraising advice? Join the conversation in #s-fundraising or explore our resource page!

• Zachary launched The Hatchery Fund, a microgrant programme for activists and local organizers running small experiments.

• Lauren shared a report from Stray Dog Institute on funding practices in the farmed animal movement, based on interviews with 34 fundraisers.

• Ayelette shared a resource on Community-Centric Fundraising, a model grounding fundraising in equity and social justice.

• Tiina is looking for advice and examples on paid TikTok advertising for fundraising.

• Akvilė is hosting a free Q&A call on year-end regular donor campaigns with people behind the best 2025 campaigns. Join on 16 June.

🎁 Tools & Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.

• Richie shared a research piece on zero grazing in UK dairy farming, arguing it is not the food security fix that corporations claim.

• Sofia shared a guide on using AI for management and leadership tasks, covering use cases from feedback prep to meeting analysis.

• Manny shared TraceReach Studio, a privacy-first analytics app that maps real-world engagement to physical media like posters and stickers and their exact placement.

• René shared a Firefox add-on that adds access buttons next to any DOI on a webpage using your institutional access.

• Björn wrote a deep dive on how people navigate the meat paradox and what the evidence says about effective advocacy approaches.

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The most popular link from Hive Highlights early May 2026 was the Faunalytics 2026 Global Animal Slaughter Statistics, an interactive data tool for campaign planning and regional strategy.

To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:

From Jobs & Opportunities

• 🔥 Opportunities: High Impact Professionals opens applications for its free six-week Impact Accelerator Program, helping experienced professionals take concrete steps toward high-impact work. New for 2026: an Entrepreneurship Track for those exploring starting their own high-impact organization. Apply by 7 June.

• 🔥 Opportunities: Effective Thesis opens applications for its summer fellowship connecting students and early-career researchers with animal advocacy organizations. Apply by 3 June.

From Movement News

• 💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates: Animal Charity Evaluators announces $1.3 million in Movement Grants to 25 projects and organizations globally.

P.S. If you're heading to any of the upcoming conferences in Toronto or London, come say Hi(ve) to the Hive team. We'll be the ones wearing orange! We'd love to meet you.

Warmly,
Sofia, Chelsea, and the Hive team

How to navigate Hive Highlights

Every two weeks, Hive sends you the latest updates (click to jump):

1. Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other

2. Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events

3. Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos

4. Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!

Other ways to read this newsletter: Extensions Jetwriter AI (to summarize posts) or Read Aloud.

🐖 Animal Welfare

• Canada’s largest horse slaughterhouse, Bouvry Exports Alberta, closes permanently following years of documented animal cruelty violations, legal complaints, and regulatory action.

• French retailer Auchan commits to improving farmed shrimp welfare, including eliminating eyestalk ablation by 2026 and implementing pre-slaughter electric stunning by 2030.

• The Open Wing Alliance reports major cage-free progress from five global companies, including REWE Group, Pizza Express, Caffè Nero, Columbus Café & Co, and Ferrero Group, collectively impacting over 11 million hens annually.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• Food Forward Europe publishes a report calling for the reallocation of 20% of EU Common Agricultural Policy subsidies toward plant-based protein production.

• India launches its first dedicated alternative protein biofoundry, backed by $4.4 million in public investment and supported by Good Food Institute India.

• The Protein Resource launches as a consumer-friendly hub comparing protein sources from a health perspective for advocates and health professionals.

• UK startup Meatly raises £10M to build Europe’s largest cultivated meat facility in London, advancing efforts to make cultivated meat commercially viable at scale.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• The European Parliament passes a non-binding resolution calling for the EU to halt funding for NGOs that lobby for plant-based alternatives in school meals.

• Harvard Law School announces it will shut down its Animal Law and Policy Clinic after the 2026-27 academic year, despite full enrollment.

• The Netherlands updates its national food guidelines to reduce meat and dairy intake and increase emphasis on plant-based foods.

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• Ethical Seafood Research hosts a webinar on 2 June to explore seaweed farming as a sustainable alternative to aquatic animal agriculture, and to preview its upcoming report on the economic case for seaweed culture. RSVP now.

• The Animal Welfare Observatory publishes its 2025 impact report, highlighting campaign progress and its recognition as an Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity.

• The India Animal Welfare Funding Circle publishes results and reflections from its first grantmaking round, which distributed $585,000 across 17 organizations in India.

• The Navigation Fund’s Farm Animal Welfare Program launches Hatching Plans, a Substack covering movement strategy, philanthropy, and the hard questions facing animal advocacy.

• Specialised Breeders Australia and Agri Advanced Technologies announce the launch of Australia's first in-ovo sexing machine, enabling hatcheries to identify the sex of chicks before hatching for the first time in the Asia-Pacific region.

💼 Jobs

• Country Director France, Four Paws. Hybrid, France. Apply by 24 May.

• Development Coordinator (part-time contract), Animal Charity Evaluators. Remote, US. Apply by 24 May.

• Campaigns Officer, Eurogroup for Animals. Brussels, Belgium (remote options possible). Apply by 25 May.

• Senior Research Manager (Nutrition & Health), ProVeg International. Remote, global, (with core hours 10am–4pm CET) or Germany/Spain. Apply by 28 May.

• Communications Associate, Animal Justice. Remote or hybrid, Toronto, Canada. Apply by 31 May.

• Philippines Country Lead, Scale Welfare. Remote, Luzon, Philippines. Apply by 31 May.

• Open Wing Alliance Associate Director of Europe, The Humane League. Remote, select countries in Europe. Apply by 1 June.

• Digital Communications Director, Animal Outlook. Remote, US. Apply by 5 June.

• Social Media Manager, Compassion in World Farming. Hybrid, Godalming, UK. Apply by 5 June.

• Program Officer, Arthropoda Foundation. Remote (East Coast hours preferred). Apply by 15 July.

• Communications and Marketing Manager, Mercy For Animals. Remote, Mexico.

• Digital Marketing Coordinator, Animal Equality. Hybrid, Madrid, Spain.

• Operations Lead, Technical Program & AI Research Systems (part-time), Welfare Footprint Institute. Remote, part-time.

• Planned Giving Officer, Mid-Atlantic, Humane World for Animals. Remote, Mid-Atlantic, US.

• Rebellyous Foods lists multiple open roles, including Administrative Assistant (Tukwila, Washington, US), Food Scientist: Production, Product Development & Regulatory (Tukwila, Washington, US), and Food Service Account Manager (Southeast and Midwest, remote, US).

• V-Label Manager, Awards & Email, ProVeg International. Remote, Germany.

• Writer, Our World in Data. Remote (UK hours overlap preferred).

Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good job boards.

💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering

Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.

Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:

• EA Opportunities Board

• Flockwork

• The Hive Slack Community (that’s us!)

🔥 Opportunities

• The Centre for Effective Altruism offers a free four-day online career bootcamp for impact-driven professionals looking to pivot into high-impact work. Apply by 26 May.

• Violet Studios opens applications for free branding and design services for animal advocacy organizations, with limited spots available for July through September. Apply by 7 June.

• International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics opens registration for a two-day online workshop on Constitutional Animal Rights Law, taking place 25–26 June via Zoom.

• Current Affairs invites op-ed pitches on animal welfare topics from advocates, paying $250 and up.

💰 Funding

• The Hatchery Fund opens applications for microgrants of up to $1,000 for animal advocates to experiment with new tactics. Apply by 12 June.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• AVA Summit Canada, 21–24 May. Toronto, Canada.

• Sentient Futures London, 22–24 May. London, UK.

• EA Global: London, 29–31 May. London, UK.

• World Aquaculture Singapore, 3–5 June. Singapore.

• International Aquaculture Law & Policy Symposium, 5 June. Birmingham, UK.

• Vegan Creator Con, 13–14 June. Los Angeles, US.

• AVA Ghana, 16–19 July. Accra, Ghana.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• Animal Law Europe releases a factsheet on cage bans in the EU, including the percentage of egg-laying hens still kept in cages in each EU Member State.

• Animal Think Tank publishes research on plant-based messaging effectiveness across five audience segments, alongside a practical guide for UK communicators.

• Compassion in Machine Learning finds that training AI models on synthetic documents improves animal welfare reasoning without affecting capabilities.

• Eurogroup for Animals releases new resources, including economic case studies on cage-free transition financing in Finland and Italy, a joint report with Compassion in World Farming on financing the cage-free transition across the EU, and an updated insect farming report.

• Researchers find that barren factory farm environments amplify and prolong pain in captive animals by disabling natural pain-suppressing mechanisms.

• Researchers reveal that corporate cage-free pledges from global hotel chains may not translate into real change without government regulation.

🎙️ Podcasts

• David Ramms

  • Are Vegans Getting AI Wrong? With Andy Masley

• Fork the System

  • Empathy-building and policy enforcement in the animal welfare movement with Kirumira Julius, co-founder of the African Institute for Animal Welfare

• Hope for the Animals Podcast

  • Cage-Free Cracked Open with Amber Canavan

• Our Hen House

  • Harvard’s Animal Law Clinic Is Closing, Chicks Are Still Being Ground Up, and the Meat Industry Is Panicking.

  • “We’ve Got This” | Stop the Save Our Bacon Act

📙 Books

• 80,000 Hours: How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good, by Benjamin Todd. Available for pre-order, publishing 26 May.

🎥 Videos

• Jack Hancock-Fairs premieres The Dying Trade, a documentary exploring the hidden human cost of the meat processing industry on slaughterhouse workers.

• Project Slingshot releases Gaslit, a short documentary exposing the reality of carbon dioxide gas chamber slaughter of pigs and chickens in the UK food industry.

The hardest part of the AVA Summit might be what happens next

Attending AVA Summit Canada this week? 🇨🇦 You’ll have 3.5 days of conversations, plus talks, workshops, and spontaneous hallway chats. Then you go home, exhausted and exhilarated. Life gets busy, and all the people and organizations you want to keep in touch with get scattered across LinkedIn, email, your phone’s notes app, a few business cards, and maybe a paper notebook.

We have good news. The people you met at AVA are probably already on Hive Slack! It’s where 5,000+ farmed animal advocates live year-round. It’s easier to keep those names of your new connections alive when they’re all in one place, not spread across 4 platforms.

Post in #e-ava-summit this week to take your first step. Share a reflection, give kudos to someone you heard speak, or just say hi.

Post by May 31 and you’re entered to win a little surprise from our team. 🎁

Already in Hive Slack? Go to the e-ava-summit channel here.

Not yet a Hive Slack community member? Join here.

Looking for a different kind of connection?

If you're looking for a low-pressure way to meet others in the movement, join our next Hive Community Conversation on 29 May. This virtual meetup is all about connection and collaboration—giving you a dedicated space to share what you’re exploring, hear what others are working on, and discover new ideas. Open to all advocates, no matter how long you've been in the field! RSVP now.

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The most popular link from Hive Highlights late April 2026 was the Anima International Fellowship, a fully funded three-week intensive program in Warsaw this September (applications close 17 May!).

To kick off today’s Hive Highlights, here are our 3 top picks from across the movement:

From Movement News

• ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law: The US House of Representatives passes the Farm Bill including the Save Our Bacon Act, which would nullify state animal welfare laws. US advocates are urged to contact their senators to oppose the bill before a Senate vote.

From Jobs & Opportunities

• 🔥 Opportunities: Welfare Matters opens applications for its Farmed Animal Welfare Incubator, a 12-week program supporting individuals in Southeast Asia to launch new farmed animal welfare nonprofits, with seed funding of up to $50,000. Apply by 15 June.

From Resources

• 📚 Research: Faunalytics releases its 2026 Global Animal Slaughter Statistics, an interactive data tool tracking animal slaughter across every region globally and a practical resource for campaign planning and regional strategy.

The most effective advocates are the ones who stay informed, connected, and empowered. That’s what Hive is here for. Go do great things for animals!

Warmly,
Sofia, Chelsea, and the Hive team

How to navigate Hive Highlights

Every two weeks, Hive sends you the latest updates (click to jump):

1. Movement news: Covering 🐖 Animal Welfare, 🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein, ⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law, 💪🏾 Animal Advocacy Org Updates, and 🎲 Other

2. Jobs & Opportunities: Covering 💼 Jobs, 💡 Skilled volunteering, 🔥 Opportunities, 💰 Funding, and 🤝 Upcoming External Events

3. Resources: Covering 📚 Research, 🎙️ Podcasts, 📙 Books, and 🎥 Videos

4. Hive updates: Covering the latest from our team!

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🐖 Animal Welfare

• The Animal Welfare Observatory publishes a dossier finding that most of Spain’s top supermarket chains have failed to meet their 2025 cage-free commitments, with an estimated 12.9 million hens still kept in cages across their supply chains.

• Eurogroup for Animals updates its report on phasing out cages in the EU, reflecting the current reality of transitioning to cage-free farming systems ahead of expected European institutional action.

• Itsi Weinstock outlines four urgent animal welfare funding opportunities for 2026, including stopping the EATS Act, seeding an AIxAnimals fund, ending chicken cages in the US, and halting insect farming before it scales.

• Itsi Weinstock publishes an overview of the AIxAnimals space, arguing it is critically underfunded and outlining key projects needed urgently to ensure AI systems consider animal welfare as the technology scales.

• Manifund launches the Falcon Fund, a new fund focused on the intersection of animal welfare and transformative AI, making rapid grants of $25,000–$150,000. Donate by 15 May to help reach their $2M fundraising target.

• Visa Inc. drops its sponsorship of Milan Fashion Week over the event’s continued allowance of fur on the runway, marking the third major sponsor lost by the event.

🥗 Plant-Based Food & Alternative Protein

• AltProtein.Jobs releases its 2025 Impact Report, documenting its transition from a for-profit career platform to a nonprofit talent infrastructure initiative and outlining its strategy for 2026.

• The Good Food Institute unveils its 2026 State of the Industry series, offering a global snapshot of the alternative protein landscape covering investment, sales, scientific advancements, and regulatory updates.

• Humane World for Animals shares its fifth annual Food Service Industry Protein Sustainability Scorecard, finding that 38% of top US food service companies have commitments to serve more plant-based foods.

• The Institute for Future Food Systems releases its March Studies & Reports roundup, covering cancer risk and plant-based diets, deforestation deadline failures, the meat paradox, and more.

• Various organizations launch the Plant-Rich Europe campaign, calling on European supermarkets to disclose and rebalance their protein sales ratios.

⚖️ Policy, Legislation, and Law

• Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approves a bill banning the production and sale of foie gras nationwide, pending presidential signature, which would make Brazil the first Latin American country to establish a federal foie gras ban.

• Chile’s Congress launches a cross-party Animal Welfare Caucus committed to advancing animal protection legislation, with support from Fundación Derecho y Defensa Animal.

• Germany’s highest court rules that existing voluntary welfare standards for turkey farming violate animal welfare law, likely forcing the Ministry of Agriculture to set stronger mandatory minimum standards.

• ICARE hosts a free online seminar on 15 May on investigating and litigating animal rights violations in slaughterhouses, featuring perspectives from L214 (France) and Animal Law Focus (Latin America).

💪 Animal Advocacy Org Updates

• Animal Advocacy Africa launches a fully interactive directory of farmed animal advocacy organizations across Africa.

• Mercy for Animals launches Puntos con Alas, a gamified loyalty program in Latin America designed to build consumer pressure on retailers that have not made cage-free commitments.

• Rethink Priorities hosts a free webinar on 12 May on factory farming in Africa, covering the scale of expansion, the organizational landscape, and key funding and capacity gaps in the movement.

• We Animals publishes its 2025 annual report, highlighting a year of global photojournalism assignments, widespread media coverage, and growing access to its visual library.

💼 Jobs

• Research Program Officer (Sustainable Livestock Systems), European Commission DG AGRI. Brussels, Belgium. Apply by 7 May.

• Policy Manager (Finance, Innovation and Competitiveness), European Vegetarian Union. Hybrid, Brussels, Belgium. Apply by 8 May.

• Research Program Officer (Startups/Scaleups and Innovation), European Commission DG AGRI. Brussels, Belgium. Apply by 8 May.

• UX Product Design Strategist, Sharpen Strategy. Remote, US. Apply by 8 May.

• Digital Specialist, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF). Remote, Italy. Apply by 12 May.

• Senior Fundraiser, CIWF. Remote, Poland. Apply by 13 May.

• Global Communications Manager, CIWF. Hybrid, UK. Apply by 14 May.

• Associate Vice President of People, The Humane League. Remote, select countries. Apply by 15 May.

• Senior Fundraising Manager, CIWF. Hybrid, Netherlands. Apply by 21 May.

• Welfare Assessment Manager, Fish Welfare Initiative. Andhra Pradesh, India. Apply by 24 May.

• Research Contractor, Faunalytics. Remote. Rolling applications, preferred start 1 June.

• Advocacy & Communications Officer, Animal Law Foundation. London, UK.

• Government Relations & Strategic Communications Assistant, Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira. Brasília, Brazil.

• Manager of Programs, Sinergia Animal. Bangkok, Hybrid, Thailand.

• Myrias lists multiple open roles including AI Builder, Chief of Staff, Entrepreneur in Residence, Industry Whisperer (agriculture/aquaculture), Operations Manager, Product Manager, and Program Associate. Remote.

• Operations Officer, Convergence Animaux Politique. Partly remote, France.

• Video Editor, Animal Equality. Remote, Spain.

Job search tip: Browse Hive’s Jobs and Careers Resources and follow our Slack’s job feed in the #job-posting channel for new positions daily! You can also view the Animal Advocacy Careers, AltProtein.Jobs, Food Impact Careers, and Probably Good job boards.

💡 Job hunting? Also consider skilled volunteering

Volunteering helps you build skills, connections, context, and credentials, all while creating change for farmed animals. For many people, volunteering is a key step towards working professionally in the movement. For others, volunteering is one of several impactful ways to contribute.

Three places to find volunteering opportunities helping farmed animals:

• EA Opportunities Board

• Flockwork

• The Hive Slack Community (that’s us!)

🔥 Opportunities

• Jordi Casamitjana seeks adults worldwide who identify as vegan or plant-based to complete the Huge Vegan Survey, an anonymous study on the process of adopting and maintaining vegan lifestyles.

• The Mission Motor updates its free Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) services based on input from animal advocacy organizations, including program design, evaluation support, and full MEL system partnerships.

• Theory of Change Makers opens applications for its 12-month social entrepreneurship incubator in Latin America, supporting evidence-based organization building. Past cohorts have launched farmed animal welfare nonprofits. Apply by 10 May.

• Thomas Manandhar-Richardson makes the case for forming AI learning circles, small peer groups who experiment with AI tools together and share findings. Looking to start or join one? Hive is a great place to find others.

💰 Funding

• The Chew On This fund opens applications for documentary filmmakers to pitch live at the Hollywood Climate Summit on 4 June for up to $50,000 in funding. Apply by 16 May.

• The CARE Conference opens travel support applications for advocates who need financial assistance to attend the event in Warsaw. Apply by 1 July.

• Thrive Philanthropy accepts applications for its Thrive Grant ($10,000–$30,000) and Seed Grant (up to $5,000) for organizations outside the US working to overcome factory farming and build plant-based food systems. Apply by 1 June.

Fundraising tip: Hive’s Fundraising Guide includes a database of current opportunities and key resources on how to fundraise.

🤝 Upcoming External Events

• Grassroots Animal Rights Summit, 15–17 May. Washington D.C., US.

• AVA Summit Canada, 21–24 May. Toronto, Canada.

• Sentient Futures London, 22–24 May. London, UK.

• EA Global: London, 29–31 May. London, UK.

• World Aquaculture Singapore, 3–5 June. Singapore.

• International Aquaculture Law & Policy Symposium, 5 June. Birmingham, UK.

• Vegan Creator Con, 13–14 June. Los Angeles, US.

• AVA Ghana, 16–19 July. Accra, Ghana.

Events tip: View more on the Connect for Animals (CFA) event list, the Effective Altruism Global event page, and our Conference Database.

📚 Research

• Animal Charity Evaluators publishes a review of the evidence behind books, documentaries, and podcasts as animal advocacy interventions.

• Faunalytics publishes a systematic review of vegan and vegetarian dietary rates across 58 countries over the past decade, mapping the gap between dietary self-identification and actual behavior globally.

• Our World in Data finds that strong majorities in the UK and US oppose common factory farming practices, yet meat consumption remains high.

• Researchers find that brief meat reduction interventions can backfire, increasing psychological reactance rather than willingness to change.

• Tiny Beam Fund releases Beacon Issue 8, summarizing six academic studies on industrial animal agriculture in developing countries, covering topics from the capitalization of livestock systems to food systems priorities in Africa.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Canary in a Cornfield

  • The Pain Echo Chamber: Why Animal Welfare in Confinement Operations is Even Worse Than People Realized with Dr. Cynthia Schuck

• Chris Bryant, PhD.

  • 6 Tools To Make A Vegan

• Future of Foods Interviews

  • Why Netherlands is Becoming a Global Leader in Cellular Agriculture? with Tom Van Duijn

• Knowing Animals:

  • Veganarchafeminism with Nathan Poirier

• Our Hen House:

  • Anti-Factory Farming Is Not Quite a Plan: Creating a Big Tent

  • “Get Connected” | Building Global Community at AVA Summit 2026

  • “I’m Trying”: Filmmaker Ray Cruzzola on Documentary Activism, Regan Russell, and the Power of Storytelling for Animals

  • “Moments Upon Moments” | Lobster Liberation, Anti-factory Farming & Animal Advocacy Strategy

• Sentientism

  • Citizens’ Assemblies, But With Animals & Plants | Multispecies Politics & Art | Eva Meijer

• Unchained TV podcast

  • 5 Amazing New Animal Rights Films

• The Vegan Report:

  • The Repugnant Conclusion of Effective Animal Altruism

📙 Books

• Animal and Vegan Advocacy: The Psychological Science and Practice of Attitude, Behavior, and Social Change, edited by Kristof Dhont, Robbie Sutton, and Maria Ioannidou. Available for pre-order, shipping September 2026.

🎥 Videos

• Faunalytics shares a webinar discussing Globalizing the Factory Farm, its study on how international organizations support the spread of industrial animal agriculture in low- and middle-income countries.

• Insights for Impact releases an introductory video on in-ovo sexing for chicks, a useful resource to share with those new to the issue.

¡Hola! Introducing Hive Highlights Latinoamérica 🌎

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our first Spanish-language edition of Hive Highlights, created in collaboration with Lupa! This initiative aims to bridge the language gap, ensuring that news, career opportunities, and global events are accessible to the Latin American community. Check out the April edition for a monthly summary of the most relevant updates for our Spanish-speaking community!

Going to AVA Summit Canada? 🇨🇦

While the Whova app is great during the conference, it expires after 90 days. With AVA summits in Ghana (July) and Thailand (October) still to come, we want to help spark and strengthen year-round connections. Post in the #e-ava-summit channel before 31 May! Share an intro, highlight your workshop, ask the organizers a question, or swap Toronto travel tips. Bonus: Anyone who posts by the deadline will be entered to win a surprise gift from the Hive team! 🎁 Speaking of conferences…

Find us in Toronto & London! 👋

From the Hive team, Sofia Balderson, Alexia Dean, and Angel Lau are heading to AVA Summit Canada (21–24 May) to join farmed animal advocates from across the globe. If you’re attending, we’d love to connect! Look for our orange t-shirts and jumpers in the hallways, or join us at these specific meetups:

• Asia Meetup on Friday, 22 May at 2pm

• LatAm Meetup on Friday, 22 May at 3pm

• Effective Altruism Meetup on Saturday, 23 May at 2pm

Meanwhile, Kevin Xia and Therese Veith will be representing Hive in the UK! Catch Kevin at the Sentient Futures Summit London (22–24 May), or find them both at EA Global: London (29–31 May). Come say Hi(ve)!

More ways to Hive: Virtual events this month 💻

If you aren’t traveling this month, you can still dive into the movement with our two virtual events this month:

• Fundraiser’s Community Call, 12 May | Led by Liz Wheeler at Faunalytics, this crowd-sourced session is a chance for fundraisers to swap notes on what’s working and what isn’t. Note: This session will not be recorded to allow for open discussion, but a summary will be sent to all registrants. RSVP now.

• Hive Community Conversations, 29 May | Our monthly meetup is all about connection and collaboration. Whether you’re a seasoned advocate or just starting out, join us to share what you’re working through and discover new ideas in a supportive space. RSVP now.

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Slack channels covered:

🧡 Introductions
🙏 Help Requests
💼 Jobs
👩‍💻 Slack Updates
🥩 Alt Protein
👋 Opportunities and Help Offered
🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources

🧡 Introductions

Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
It’s never too late to introduce yourself! Here are some recent intros:

• Hi, I’m Mara Cruz, Fundraising Coordinator at Animal Law Focus from Mexico City.

• Hi, I’m Pawan Bruce Singh, a Research Assistant at Social Inclusion Project based in Singapore, currently launching a Post-Growth Singapore chapter focused on institutional and structural change away from animal products.

• Hi, I’m Selorm Sikanku, Corporate Campaigns Coordinator at Animal Welfare League based in Accra, Ghana.

• Hi, I’m Coral Outwater, a Minnesota GreenCorps Member at MPCA based in St. Paul, USA, pursuing a career in bioengineering for alternative proteins.

• Hi, I’m Juan Pique, Speaker and Consultant at Un Mundo Vegano based in Lima, Peru, helping plant-based companies improve their messaging through storytelling.

• Hi, I’m Martina Pepiciello, a comms specialist at the Foresight Institute based in Bologna, Italy, connected to the Italian Effective Altruism community.

🙏 Help Requests

Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Check out some of these successfully answered requests!

• Otto was connected with food scientists willing to give feedback on his alt-protein sensory data startup.

• Hayley got several recommendations for podcasts from the animal welfare movement.

• Marine found a lecturer for ICARE’s upcoming online short course.

❓ Can you assist with these unanswered requests?

• David is seeking expert advice on whether the cost per liter of basal media and cell density are independent parameters in cultured meat production.

• Ayelette is seeking feedback on the most successful placement for fundraising asks on Instagram.

• Hack the Fork is looking for local leaders to organize their Hackathon in cities worldwide, focused on plant-based, fermentation-derived, and cultivated protein solutions.

💼 Jobs

One of our most popular channels is #06-job-postings! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.

• Communications Associate, Good Food Institute APAC. Remote, Asia Pacific, Singapore preferred. Apply by 10 May.

• Fellow, New Roots Institute. Remote, USA, Canada. Apply by 13 May.

• Associate Vice President, People, The Humane League. Remote, various countries. Apply by 15 May.

• Fellow, Anima International. Warsaw, Poland. Apply by 17 May.

• Welfare Assessment Manager, Fish Welfare Initiative. Eluru, India. Apply by 24 May.

• Development Coordinator, Animal Charity Evaluators. Remote, USA. Apply by 24 May.

• Program Associate, Fairer Fields. Remote, USA preferred.

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👩‍💻 Slack Updates

• New email series alert! 🚨

  We launched “Your Hi-Way to Helping Farmed Animals“, a free email series for people who care about farmed animals but aren’t sure what to do next. It walks you through four concrete ways to contribute and helps you find what fits your life right now.

• Heading to AVA Summit Canada? 🇨🇦

  Post in #e-ava-summit this month to connect with fellow attendees and keep the momentum going all summit season. Learn more here!

• Welcome our newest Pollinator! 🐝
  Irene joined our amazing team of pollinators this month!

Spotlight 🌟 Our Alternative Protein channel is a space for discussing advancements and opportunities in alternative protein sources like plant-based and lab-grown meats.

🥩Alt Protein

Join #c-alt-protein to connect with activists about this topic!

• The Good Food Institute and the Alt Protein Project Africa are inviting people who meet their criteria to join their African alternative protein community directory.

• Linda is looking for researchers in the cultivated meat or alternative protein space to feature on the Clean Meat Alliance's YouTube channel to increase awareness.

• Nick recommended a video from Bryant Research about consumer research on alt protein.

• Lilia shared AltProtein.Jobs' 2025 Alternative Protein Job Market Report, covering hiring trends and a 2026 outlook.

• David shared a deep dive into cultured chicken production, focusing on costs.

👋 Opportunities and Help Offered

Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩

• Hive is now offering free 1:1 project consultations for anyone with an idea or active project needing direction on funding, hiring, or strategy.

• The Mission Motor has refined its free Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning services for animal advocacy organizations, now offering everything from quick MEL advice to full system support.

• Annika is looking for partner organizations and project ideas for Effective Thesis, matching students with high-impact orgs for 3-month research projects starting in July.

• Agustin is offering software development help across Android, iOS, and web to anyone who needs it.

• Tomek is offering finance and accounting support, including modelling, reporting, and grants for a few hours a week.

🔥 Funding

Looking for fundraising advice? Join the conversation in #s-fundraising or explore our resource page!

• Sofia shared a talk on early-stage fundraising she gave at the Sentient Futures incubator, including a Q&A summary.

• Liz shared research showing that framing donations as “gifts” consistently increases giving by 23-29%.

• Angel shared an article on how the four largest effective animal advocacy funds plan to deploy $120 million across scaling, testing, and movement infrastructure.

• Tim shared Goodstack Grants, a tool for finding and applying to grants with a free plan including basic grant matching.

• The Chew On This grant fund is accepting applications from filmmakers, with 6 selected to pitch live at the Hollywood Climate Summit in LA for up to $50,000 in funding. Apply by 16 May.

• Thrive Philanthropy is accepting grant applications until from organisations outside the USA, working on factory farming and plant-based food systems. Apply by 1 June.

• Join the next Hive Fundraising Community Call on 12 May at 12pm EST!

🎁 Tools & Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.

• Hereward shared a new volunteer matching tool by Active for Animals and Vegan Outreach India for volunteer onboarding and tracking.

• Jenna shared updated slaughter statistics from Faunalytics, tracking global animal slaughter trends with new interactive per capita maps.

• Celine shared a new UK chapter of the CALF Legislative Advocacy Guide, helping advocates shape animal protection policy in the UK.

• Nazlı highlighted a career platform in Turkish exploring how to build a meaningful career, similar to 80,000 Hours.

• Sofia wrote a blog post on the management capacity gap in animal advocacy and what the movement can do to address it.

• Richie made the case for forming an AI learning circle to improve AI skills together with peers at a similar level.

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