Great point! 

In addition to not doing anything, we should also stop thinking.

Very true. Nit-picking and deference to authority are highly neglected cause areas in themselves. Imposter syndrome is underrated

That's a great point, thanks Manuel!

@Jamie_Harris thanks for sharing! I will put this on my reading list. :)

I think that would make a great cross-post!

Yeah that was interesting! He was raised vegetarian, ate meat for a while and then went back to it.

Also, re social movements and animals - James Ozden has some useful research.

Yeah he talks about vegetarianism a lot actually! Here's one paragraph about his efforts to promote vegetarianism as a young man in England:

What he describes is one of the problems we want to solve at Allied Scholars for Animal Protection – clubs die when student leaders graduate because there's no larger infrastructure to support recruitment.

Thanks for sharing this on the forum!

Thinking about how past social movements succeeded at large-scale attitude and behavior change seems important, and I'm not sure why there isn't more attention to that kind of thing in EA discussions around animal advocacy.

I recently read Gandhi's autobiography and found some useful stuff there.

Yeah I think this is a good point! Donor-advised funds seem like a good way to benefit from compound interest (and tax deductions) while avoiding the risk of value drift.