International Shrimpact Day™
We're raising $100,000 for Shrimp Welfare Project to help one of the world's most neglected animals.
A Substack fundraiser for one of the world’s most impactful charities
The Shrimpact™ Leaderboard
Browse the pieces written for the occasion, and see how many donors chose each and how much shrimp they donations have helped:
Massive issue
Shrimp suffer..
- The scientific consensus is that shrimp can experience pain and distress
- Shrimp sentence and/or the need to protect their welfare is recognised by law in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway and Austria
Standard industry practices are cruel..
- Painful death: The vast majority are slaughtered by being suffocated, fully conscious. They're removed from water and left to die, often taking over an hour.
- Eyestalk ablation: Hatcheries still practice crushing or cutting off the eyestalk of female shrimps to make them become fertile faster.
- Rampant disease: Outbreaks of infectious disease are very common in shrimp farms because the animals are packed so closely together. This kills as much as 40% of all farmed shrimp in some years.
Roughly 440 billion shrimp are slaughtered in farms each year!
This is more than all farmed chickens, cows, and pigs combined. It's 4x the number of humans that have ever lived. And yet, because they're hard to empathize with, the plight of shrimp gets very little attention.
Extraordinary charity
Your donation goes incredibly far..
Just $1 can improve welfare for around 1,500 animals, making them one of the most impactful animal charities to donate to by number of animals helped per dollar.
Spare shrimp from suffering at slaughter:
Shrimp Welfare Project work directly with shrimp producers to have them stun shrimp before slaughter, rendering them unconscious. They provide the electrical stunning equipment to industry, removing the financial blocker to industry-wide change. This simple, practical approach has already secured commitments to humanely stun approximately 4 billion shrimp each year.
Pioneer a better future
As the first organization dedicated to shrimp welfare, SWP is establishing the standards that will shape how billions of animals are treated for decades to come. They work with both retailers and producers to transform industry practices permanently.
Why should I support Shrimp Welfare Project?
Frequently asked questions
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Your donation will be used to fund Shrimp Welfare Project’s initiatives, like their Humane Slaughter Initiative (where they provide electrical stunners to shrimp farmers so that they can spare 1500 animals from being suffocated fully conscious per dollar) and their Eyestalk Ablation-Free Initiative (where they encourage retailers and producers to ban this cruel practice in their supply chains, helping to establish a new industry standard).
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When you enter a writer's code at checkout, two things happen. First, FarmKind adds a 20% match to your donation, making your gift go even further. Second, your donation counts towards that writer's total on the leaderboard. It's a way to support their work while helping the cause.
The match comes from FarmKind’s Bonus Fund. For recurring donations, your first 6 donations will be matched. Matches will only be paid out while funds last.
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Yes, if you are a US tax resident. You will receive a tax receipt from our donation distribution service, every.org.
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Because it’s what our mission is all about: FarmKind is a non-profit donation platform that makes it easy for everyone to play a role in ending factory farming. We find and fund some of the best charities working to protect animals from unnecessary suffering.
Shrimp Welfare Project is an outstanding charity: They can do an extra-ordinary amount of good for animals donations, and yet because they don’t have a big marketing department like some of the most famous charities, they’re not very well known. We’re trying to help change that.
