You All Helped Over Half A Billion Shrimp!

A victory for the shrimp!

Yesterday was a good day for helping shrimp (shrimpact).

Yesterday, I wrote an article about the (shr)importance of giving to the shrimp welfare project which averts ~15,000 shrimp deaths per dollar it gets (1,500 per dollar per year). To a surprising degree, the article blew up. Around 3,300 people have read it already—far more than is typical. After my article, several other people wrote about the subject; Amos, Glenn, and even Richard Hanania. As a result of this:

Hanania gave $1,000

Michael Huemer gave $1,000

Maxim Lott gave $1,000

Someone else I know gave $10,000

Zach now gives $30 per month

Ricky gives $30 per month

Forrest now gives $30 per month

Melissa gave $10

Chris gave $30 per month

Josh G gave $60 dollars

Amos gave a recurring donation of $31 per month

Mack Harris gave a recurring donation of some $25 per month

I was so inspired by you all that I’m now giving an extra 50 dollars a month to the shrimp welfare project

In total, people gave $13,070 straight up plus $226 per month. This will make painless the deaths of 19,605,000 per year, around half as many shrimp as live in California. That’s just the direct donations. The recurring monthly donations will save an additional 339,000 shrimp from a painful death pear year, per month. That means every single month, as long as the donations keep up, an extra 339,000 shrimp will be spared from a painless death each year. Every year this continues, it helps an extra 4,068,000 shrimp per year—meaning that if people gave for a year and then stopped, their donations would continue helping around 4 million shrimp per year! Wow!

If we assume the average donations last five years and the stunners keep being used for ten years (fairly conservative estimates) this means the recent shrimp welfare donations will help around 399,450,000 shrimp. That’s about as many shrimp as people live in the United States. Tens of millions fewer shrimp will painfully die because of you all.

Remember, the best estimate of how much shrimp suffer is, on average, around 19% as painful as humans do. If this is right, then on average, this averted as much agony as anesthetizing over 75 million humans before a painful death from suffocating and being frozen to death. This is by far the best thing I’ve ever done!

Did anyone else give to the shrimp welfare project? Let me know if you did and how much (I’ll add you to the list to quantify the impact had—also happy to leave your name at—if you want me to do this, shoot me a substack dm)! If you gave a lot and send me receipts, I’ll give you a free subscription!

Update 11/17

Hanania gave $1,000

Michael Huemer gave $1,000

Maxim Lott gave $1,000

Someone else I know gave $10,000

Zach now gives $30 per month

Ricky gives $30 per month

Forrest now gives $30 per month

Melissa gave $10

Chris gave $30 per month

Josh G gave $60 dollars

Amos gave a recurring donation of $31 per month

Mack Harris gave a recurring donation of some $25 per month

JH gave $35 a month

Nate $30 a month

Nava gave $400

Bobdog $523

Anonymous $10

Greg gave $265 and is “thinking of giving much more.”

Dave gave $32 (and has also given around $1,000 to givewell because of my articles)

Andres gave $100

Anonymous is giving $10 per month

Theodore Yohalem Shouse gave $90

Aeon gave $30 per month

Charles Amos gave 5 pounds

Ebenezer gave $200

Tom gave $25

Richard gave $1,000

Up front, people gave $15,731.31 and (someone at farmkind tells me) annual donations of $414 per month. If we assume the stunners are used for ten years and that people keep giving for 5 years on average (many will likely give less, but probably some will just keep giving, so it washes out) in total we get the number of painful shrimp deaths averted:

649,140,960