Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)

Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)

In this episode from our second show, 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla about the Shrimp Welfare Project, which he cofounded in 2021. It's the first project in the world focused on shrimp welfare specifically, and as of recording in June 2022, has six full-time staff.

Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.

They cover:

• The evidence for shrimp sentience
• How farmers and the public feel about shrimp
• The scale of the problem
• What shrimp farming looks like
• The killing process, and other welfare issues
• Shrimp Welfare Project’s strategy
• History of shrimp welfare work
• What it’s like working in India and Vietnam
• How to help

Who this episode is for:

• People who care about animal welfare
• People interested in new and unusual problems
• People open to shrimp sentience

Who this episode isn’t for:

• People who think shrimp couldn’t possibly be sentient
• People who got called ‘shrimp’ a lot in high school and get anxious when they hear the word over and over again

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Producer: Keiran Harris
Audio mastering: Ben Cordell and Ryan Kessler
Transcriptions: Katy Moore

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