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Victoria: Global poverty for Animal welfare

A non-live example showing the term structure, evidence rule, and review state a public Moral Trade listing should expose before anyone relies on it.

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StatusWorked example; manual review required before reliance

This page is a canonical example record, not live liquidity or a matched agreement.

Structured terms

What this example trades

Format

Personal pledge swap

Global poverty for Animal welfare

Duration

12 months

Exit conditions and reliance rules must be confirmed in a real agreement room.

Evidence method

Annual receipts

Evidence must be named before either side treats the trade as complete.

Offered action

Donate 1% of my income to an evidence-backed poverty charity for 12 months.

Requested action

Adopt a vegetarian diet for 12 months.

Review context

Why this is still only an example

The worked record demonstrates scanability and terms, but a real listing still needs identity checks, evidence review, challenge windows, and an agreement room after a mutual introduction.

current status

human review

Status card

Status: Worked example; manual review required before reliance.

Why this status: human review: the visible status is still a review state, not completion, custody, enforceability, or moral endorsement.

status_visiblehuman_review_required

Next step: Treat this as a review state, not a claim of completion, legal enforceability, custody, or moral endorsement.

action evidence

human review

Action evidence

Receipts, donation records, and an annual review checkpoint.

Why this status: human review: a proof method is named, but the artifact still needs reviewer inspection before reliance.

evidence_rule_namedevidence_sufficiency

Next step: Attach or inspect one scoped artifact for each factual action claim before relying on the record.

baseline confidence

pass

Counterfactual baseline

Moderate: Review should compare receipts with prior giving history, declared intention, duration, and counterparty review.

Why this status: pass: the baseline is stated with enough support to enter counterfactual review.

baseline_statedbaseline_credibility

Next step: What would you do if this trade did not happen? Be concrete. Mention your current intention, prior behavior, or any evidence that makes your baseline credible.

externality review

pass

Externality review

Review whether the trade creates third-party harms, bad incentives, or objections from moral views not present in the match.

Why this status: pass: no offset, payment, or political-adjacent trigger was detected.

externality_review_requiredhuman_review_required

Next step: Ask who is affected outside the two parties, what harm pathway exists, and what remedy or challenge window is available.

participant relative scores

pass

Participant-relative scores

Participant-stated importance 7/10; counterparty minimum 8/10. Confidence: Medium.

Why this status: pass: scores are bounded as participant-stated context, not platform ranking.

participant_relative_scoresno_global_moral_ranking

Next step: This score reflects the participant's own stated priorities. It is not a platform judgment about objective moral value.

appeal scope

human review

Appeal scope

Appeals should target the specific reviewed claim, evidence row, baseline concern, disclosure decision, or policy flag.

Why this status: human review: appeals require reviewer handling and must stay within the reviewed issue.

appealable_review_scopereviewer_summary

Next step: If you think this review decision is wrong, appeal the specific claim that was reviewed. Appeals do not reopen unrelated moral disagreements by default.

Participant-stated importance

7/10

Not a platform moral ranking. This score reflects the participant's stated view, not Moral Trade's assessment of moral value.

Counterparty minimum acceptable importance

8/10

A counterparty would still need to agree this threshold is adequate.

Confidence

Medium

Confidence is about the stated score and review context, not objective moral value.

Action evidence

Annual receipts

Receipts, donation records, and an annual review checkpoint.

Baseline confidence

Moderate

Review should compare receipts with prior giving history, declared intention, duration, and counterparty review.

Third-party externality review

Required before reliance

Review whether the trade creates third-party harms, bad incentives, or objections from moral views not present in the match.

Safety boundary

No escrow or custody claim

Moral Trade records terms and evidence; it is not legal, tax, custody, or escrow service.

Externality questions

  • Who might object to this trade?
  • Could this create bad incentives?
  • Could this harm people or values not represented by the parties?
  • Does this proposal need external reviewer input?

Moral Trade

A pilot institution for cooperation under disagreement.

Moral Trade helps serious participants test small, reviewable commitments across moral disagreement. It does not provide legal, tax, escrow, or custody services.

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Reference points include Toby Ord's paper on moral trade and Forethought's discussion of convergence, compromise, threats, blockers, and moral public goods.