Thanks for this important point, Jeff. 
It takes a bit of time and effort for a 501c3 to set up the ability to take stock directly (I know because I set up One Step for Animals' account) but for the reasons you mention, it is worth doing.

Thanks so much to all the team at OPIS for this vital (and non-speculative, imagine that) work

Personally, I think the broader point on what this looks like / how it actually impacts the world was covered best by Dr. Greger back in 2005.  
That was (basically) before EA. But much of EA suffers from "I'm so smart" syndrome. 
At least this isn't calling for us to stop washing our faces. 
Regardless of my personal opinion, I wish you all the best in trying to reduce suffering.

Hi Brian,

Thanks so much for mentioning One Step for Animals. Having spent decades promoting dietary change, I know my efforts at my previous nonprofits have ended up leading to more chickens suffering. (This for those not familiar, and this is what got me fired from "Animal Asylum".) One of the reasons I wrote Losing My Religions - hoping readers won't make the same mistake.

As far as funding for One Step, we reach more people with our short video the more people contribute. There seems to be no correlation between current contributions and future contributions. We just put money into outreach; we don't have a development team, we don't send out fundraising letters, we just buy more eyeballs. Since our founding in 2014, One Step has raised anywhere between ~$300k and $112k. We're currently looking at ~$150k for the current fiscal year.

One note: One Step's matching donor only contributes to double what we raise elsewhere. They don't donate at all otherwise. Working for other orgs, I took part in "matching" campaigns where the org knew they were going to get the "matching" money regardless.

Again - thanks for the shout-out. I have a lot of work to do to make up for my past mistakes.

-Matt

This is a very reasonable argument, and one we should take seriously. It is one of the driving forces at https://fairstartmovement.org/ 

Having worked in animal advocacy for 35 years, I've only seen the number of animals consumed per person go up and up and up. (In the US and globally.) You know what they say is the definition of insanity....

Honestly, I think the answer to your question is that humans are, on average, completely and utterly self-centered. Look at how many people concerned with AI safety are totally indifferent to the plight of non-human animals.

Song: Wilco "You Never Know" 
"Come on, children, you’re acting like children
"Every generation thinks it’s the end of the world"

https://www.mattball.org/2023/01/climate-activists-are-to-blame-for-some.html

I know this is obvious and noted, but uncontrolled suffering is far different. Suffering such that you want to die. (I write about that, in the Worsts, in https://www.losingmyreligions.net/ )
I would ask everyone to check out https://www.preventsuffering.org/  

Thanks, Vasco. I find it very difficult to imagine a scenario where I would support the active torture of factory farming chickens for any unknown / theoretical counterpoint. I'd certainly rather be a wild animal than a factory-farmed chicken. 

Take care.

Really enjoyed this piece. It is somewhat painful to read, given that I believe most of my professional life did more harm than good.

I do think that partially rationalizing torturing billions of sentient beings every year for more corn in silos in case of a nuclear winter - that's really a stretch.