Progress Studies and Animal Welfare - The Optimist's Barn

I’m pleased to announce that I will be advising the fellowship program of the Roots of Progress Institute, one of the key institutions within the Progress Studies movement. Progress Studies has deeply influenced my own thinking about how to make positive change in the world, and I largely see this Substack as trying to flesh out a perspective on farm animal welfare that’s in line with the Progress Studies philosophy. Progress Studies is something like a gratitude exercise. Most of us live lives of remarkable abundance, yet this simple fact can be surprisingly hard to recognize. Progress Studies seeks to restore an appreciation for the ways in which our lives and civilization have improved dramatically relative to the past. Then, it seeks to understand the mechanisms behind these advances to help ensure the future is even more abundant. Because progress is multifaceted, Progress Studies has a remarkably diverse and broad ranging set of interests. Yet animal welfare has sometimes sat awk

I’m pleased to announce that I will be advising the fellowship program of the Roots of Progress Institute, one of the key institutions within the Progress Studies movement. Progress Studies has deeply influenced my own thinking about how to make positive change in the world, and I largely see this Substack as trying to flesh out a perspective on farm animal welfare that’s in line with the Progress Studies philosophy. Progress Studies is something like a gratitude exercise. Most of us live lives of remarkable abundance, yet this simple fact can be surprisingly hard to recognize. Progress Studie