The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University where she founded and coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. Carol J. Adams is a feminist scholar and activist whose work explores the cultural construction of overlapping and interconnected oppressions, as well as the ethics of care.

Foreword: Amia Srinivisan
Introduction: Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen
Acknowledgements

1 How Effective Altruism Fails Community-Based Activism
Brenda Sanders

2 Effective Altruism's Unsuspecting 21st Century Colonialism
Simone De Lima

3 Anti-Blackness and the Effective Altruist
Christopher Sebastian

4 Animal Advocacy's Stockholm Syndrome
DeCoriolis, Aaron S. Gross, Steve J. Gross, and Joseph Tuminello (Farm Forward)

5 Who Counts? Effective Altruism and the Problem of Numbers in the History of American Wildlife Conservation
Michael D. Wise

6 Diversifying Effective Altruism Longshots in Animal Advocacy: An Invitation to Prioritize Black Vegans, Higher Education, and Religious Communities
Matthew C. Halteman

7 A Christian Critique of the Effective Altruism Approach to Animal Philanthropy
David L. Clough

8 Queer Eye on the EA Guys
pattrice jones

9 A Feminist-Ethics-of-Care Critique of Effective Altruism
Carol J. Adams

10 The Empty Promises of Cultured Meat
Elan Abrell

11 How 'Alternative Proteins' Create a Private Solution to a Public Problem
Michele Simon

12 The Power of Love to Transform Animal Lives: The Deception of Animal Quantification
Krista Hiddema

13 Our Partners, The Animals: Reflections from a Farmed Animal Sanctuary
Kathy Stevens

14 The Wisdom Gained from Animals Who Self-Liberate
Rachel McCrystal

15 Effective Altruism and the Reified Mind
John Sanbonmatsu

16 Against 'Effective Altruism'
Alice Crary

17 The Change We Need
Lori Gruen

Coda: Future-oriented Effective Altruism: What's wrong with longtermism?
Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen