But right now, it seems less risky for me to donate farmed animals, at least to welfare reforms with much less impact on wild animals, like cage free campaigns.
For individual welfare per animal-year proportional to “number of neurons”^0.5, I estimatethat cage-free and broiler welfare corporate campaigns change the welfare of soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes 1.15 k and 18.0 k times as much as they increse the welfare of chickens. I have little idea about whether the effects on soil animals are positive or negative. I am very uncertain about what increases or decreases soil-animal-years, and whether soil animals have positive or negative lives. So I am also very uncertain about whether such campaigns increase or decrease welfare (in expectation). I do not even know whether electrically stunning shrimp increases or decreases welfare, and I see it as one of the interventions where effects on non-target beneficiaries are the least important.
Hi CB.
For individual welfare per animal-year proportional to “number of neurons”^0.5, I estimate that cage-free and broiler welfare corporate campaigns change the welfare of soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes 1.15 k and 18.0 k times as much as they increse the welfare of chickens. I have little idea about whether the effects on soil animals are positive or negative. I am very uncertain about what increases or decreases soil-animal-years, and whether soil animals have positive or negative lives. So I am also very uncertain about whether such campaigns increase or decrease welfare (in expectation). I do not even know whether electrically stunning shrimp increases or decreases welfare, and I see it as one of the interventions where effects on non-target beneficiaries are the least important.