The Chicken Coup
Zachary SegallWhere social science meets animal activism.
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Mapping the Movement
I expected to get most of the applications for the Hatchery Fund from the US, and maybe Europe. After all, most of my personal activist network is in the US. When I published the fund, 56% of Chicken Coup subscribers were from the US and th...
Working in the Dark
Cooking Without Tasting
Imagine you’re learning to cook, but you can’t taste or smell your food. What’s more, you must give your food to people who say they’ll eat it, but they take it away and you never see them again. Will you become...
Hatchery Fund 2026 Experiments
I’m pleased to present the first 7 experiments of the Hatchery Fund, and an additional 6 experiments that secured funding from another donor. Below those, I’ve also put together a list of 13 recommended experiments that were not able to rec...
Innovation on a Budget
We did it! The first part of the Hatchery Fund’s theory of change has been validated: it’s possible to find high-quality innovative experiments in animal activism for cheap ($500 to $750, specifically). When I started the fund, I expected t...
What We Can't Automate
The Inconvenience of Relationships
When I went to the Animal and Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit in May, there were several sessions on using AI to automate various nonprofit processes. They were all asking roughly the same question: what...
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Software engineer by day, animal activist by night. Here to talk about psychology, technology, systems theory, public policy, strategy, and social change.
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