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Reports and Books
PETA’s White Paper on the Failure of Cage-Free Housing Systems to Reduce Overall Hen Suffering
Dr. Vasile Stanescu’s Reconsidering Cage-Free Eggs: An Open Letter from Concerned Scholars, June 2026, ResearchGate, https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31873.21605.
Safe and Just: The Plant Based Treaty’s vegan donut economics approach to the food system. Plant Based Treaty, 2023. https://plantbasedtreaty.org/vegandonuteconomics/
Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen (eds), The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism, Oxford University Press, 2023.
Blogs
Matthes, “animal welfare has an evidence problem,” EA Forum, June 5, 2026, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/svjqgyFuFQ34qSgmw/animal-welfare-has-an-evidence-problem.
“Factory Farming 2.0,” Collectively Gary, Substack, August 24, 2026 https://collectivelygary.substack.com/p/factory-farming-20.
Lady Whistleblown, “Hopeless men and brainless animals: The undoing of the revolution will be AI-monetised,” Substack, Aug 29, 2026 https://substack.com/home/post/p-213161729
Krista Hiddema, The Future of Farmed Animal Advocacy https://blog.drkristahiddema.com/blog/2026/9/1/the-future-of-farmed-animal-advocacy
Lia Wilbourn, The Cage-Free Scam & Rethinking What Progress Means for Animals, 2026 https://www.idausa.org/campaign/farmed-animal/the-cage-free-scam-and-rethinking-what-progress-means-for-animals/
Bruce Friedrich, “EA Should Invest in Animal Liberation and Diet Change Advocacy”, EA Forum, September 12, 2026 https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/imoynWhpY5AqxcaDG/ea-should-invest-in-animal-liberation-and-diet-change
Podcasts
Vasile Stănescu, “Egg On His Face: Reversal, Reform, and the Politics of Cage-Free Eggs”, Arihanta Institute’s 2026 Shared Worlds conference.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD7Bg2wNkAQ August 13, 2026.
Amber Canavan, “The Regrettable Failure of Cage-Free Campaigning: A New Strategy for a Vegan Future”, Arihanta Institute’s 2026 Shared Worlds conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9IvnQ0XEaA&t=1s, August 13, 2026.
Crystal Heath, “Beyond Cage-Free: Why Egg-Free Corporate Campaigns Offer a More Effective Path Forward”, Arihanta Institute’s 2026 Shared Worlds conference.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjks2ASGpO8, August 13, 2026
Sam Tucker-Davis (Collectively Gary), “They Fought Factory Farm. Now They Want to Run One” The Vegan Report https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-vegan-report/id1696354695?i=1000788422854, September 8, 2026
Journals
The environmental cost of welfare-driven policy changes in UK egg production https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/7/rsos251830/482508/The-environmental-cost-of-welfare-driven-policy
Do Consumers Really Know What Cage-Free Is and What It Entails?
Consumer behaviour, perceptions, and preferences towards eggs: a review of the literature and discussion of industry implications