PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

We share our research not only with researchers but also with practitioners, policymakers and the general public. This page surveys our public speaking, our public writing, and coverage and interviews of our work on environmental and animal protection.

“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help will all be saved.”
– Jane Goodall

PUBLIC WRITING

Op-eds, essays, and other public writing from our team.

The Case for a Global Ban on Industrial Animal Agriculture by 2050

Jeff Sebo (2025)

The Choice of Culling or Letting Avian Influenza Spread Obscures Larger US Policy Failures

Ann Linder, Jeff Sebo, and Colin Jerolmack (2025)

Letter of Testimony in Support of Hawai’i Octopus Farming Ban

Jeff Sebo, Becca Franks, Adalene Minelli, Katrina Wyman, and Mia MacDonald (2025)

Letter in Support of HB2557 Prohibiting Octopus Farming in Oregon

Becca Franks, Adalene Minelli, Jeff Sebo, Katrina Wyman, Mia Macdonald (2025)

Building Safer Cities Means Protecting Animals Too, Not Just Humans

Jeff Sebo (2025)

The Many Faces of Science in the Animal Protection Movement

Dale Jamieson (2025)

Support US OCTOPUS Act to Keep Octopuses Wild

Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Walter Sanchez-Suarez, et al. (2024)

Florida Just Picked the Wrong Kind of Meat to Ban

Arthur L. Caplan and Jeff Sebo (2024)

Animals as Agents in Their Own Conservation

Matthew Hayek (2024)

Will Animal Welfare Be COP28’s Sacrificial Lamb?

Cleo Verkuijl and Jeff Sebo (2023)

Five Key Questions for Implementing UNEP’s Animal Welfare Nexus Resolution

Cleo Verkuijl and Jeff Sebo (2023)

Why Does California Have an Egg Shortage?

Jeff Sebo (2023)

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Talks, panels, and other public speaking from our team.

How AI Is Helping – and Harming – Animals

Jeff Sebo (2025)

Lie-Flat Environmentalism in a Burning World

Yifei Li (2025)

Towards a Global Ban on Factory Farming by 2050

Jeff Sebo (2025)

Animal Ethics in a Human World (Keynote Address)

Jeff Sebo (2022)

Book Launch: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves

Jeff Sebo (2022)

Animals in a Changing Climate: Science, Ethics, and Policy

Jeff Sebo (2021)

COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS

Coverage of our work and interviews with our team.

Winter Recap: What You Missed Over Break

Coverage of the launch of the Food Impact Program (2026)

Researchers Want to Include Animal Welfare in Sustainable Development

Coverage of “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond” (2025)

Animal Health Gap Undermines Global SDG Progress

Coverage of “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond” (2025)

Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond

Coverage of “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond” (2025)

Animal Welfare Experts Urge UNEA-7 to Embed It in Global Sustainability Goals

Coverage of “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond”

Missing Piece at UNEA: Animal Welfare in Addressing Triple Planetary Crisis

Article on the connection between animal welfare and environmental health at UNEA-7 that discusses “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond” (2025)

SDGs: Lack of Animal Health Integration Threatens Public Health

Coverage of “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond” (2025)

New Report: Animal Welfare Missing from UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – Risks Public Health

Coverage of “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond” (Swedish) (2025)

New Report: The Global Goals Miss an Important Issue

Coverage of “Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond” (Swedish) (2025)

China’s Rare Golden Monkeys Debut at European Zoos, a Possible Successor to ‘Panda Diplomacy’

Article about animal diplomacy that includes a quote from CEAP Director Jeff Sebo (2025)

Raising Slower Growing Chickens Could Reduce Their Suffering for a Lower Cost Than You Might Think

Article about farmed chicken welfare that quotes CEAP Director Jeff Sebo and cites CEAP-funded project, “The ‘sustainability gap’ of US broiler chicken production: trade-offs between welfare, land use and consumption.” (2025)

Octopus Farming

Article about octopus farming that cites “The Case Against Octopus Farming” (2025)