“Creating Market Incentives or, Shrimp Stunning Credits” by Aaron Boddy🔸

Introduction

This post is intended to be read after reading our previous post outlining Shrimp Welfare Project's 2030 Vision & Absorbency Plans. This post therefore assumes some baseline knowledge of our Humane Slaughter Initiative, which can be found in that post.

Problem(s)

Market Incentives

How do we create the incentives for the market to shift to pre-slaughter stunning?

The suffering shrimps experience at the end of their lives can be reduced by rendering them unconscious prior to slaughter through the use of electrical stunning technology. However, producers currently have very little incentive to implement pre-slaughter stunning as it's expensive and few buyers require it. Even relatively forward-thinking retailers often can’t push an initiative through internally without some leverage (as they need to be able to convince their higher-ups that this is something worth doing and to persuade their suppliers to invest in the technology).

To solve this, we buy [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) Introduction

(00:30) Problem(s)

(00:33) Market Incentives

(01:51) Market Transition

(02:54) Strategy

(02:57) Existing Policy Tools

(04:23) Cage-Free Impact Incentives

(06:38) Shrimp Stunning Credits

(07:31) Buying Credits

(08:21) Precision Aquaculture

(10:17) How it works

(12:16) Further thoughts

(12:20) Cost-Effectiveness

(13:25) Expanding Credits

(15:28) How You Can Help

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First published:
May 2nd, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tzEaFktvPP8XA9j4n/creating-market-incentives-or-shrimp-stunning-credits

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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