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I am writing up two charity ideas I’ve wanted to investigate, but haven’t been able to, in the hopes someone will investigate them further. If you end up investigating either, I'd be most interested to see what conclusions you come to!
Vulture preservation as a global health intervention
Since the mid 1990's the vulture population in India has been rapidly declining. The reason is due to a few chemicals which are fed to livestock, which is highly poisonous to vultures.
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Epistemic status: Wrote this pretty fast, probably ~70% confident some version of the thesis claim is true, would welcome being proven demonstrably wrong.
Context: I’m a grantmaker focused on alt-protein and am fairly well-connected/moderately in the loop of what animal welfare grantmakers are doing.
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No studies, but it would be incredibly hard to believe given a) the large health gains to someone who gets a kidney b) how well resourced scientific research institutes are and thus able to get organs that they need for research.
"how well resourced scientific research institutes are and thus able to get organs that they need for research."
Hmm, are they allowed to buy organs, though? Otherwise, the fact that they're well resourced might not matter much for their access to organs.