Welcome to the EA Forum, OGTutzauer! Thanks for the interesting thought.
I currently think one should focus on improving the welfare of farmed animals despite all the effects I discuss in the post. For example, I believe way more welfare would be gained by making all farmed animals live fully healthy lives than by eliminating the risk of ASRSs:
I estimated an expected annual mortality rate from ASRSs of 1.95*10^-5adjusting results from the Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research (CEARCH), which corresponds to 161 k death/​year (= 1.96*10^-5*8.2*10^9) for the current population. Assuming 29.2 DALY/​death (= 1.98*10^9/​(67.9*10^6)) based on the years of life lost and deaths in 2021, the expected annual burden from ASRSs is 4.70 MDALY (= 161*10^3*29.2).
I got180 k MDALY for farmed animals, i.e. 38.3 k (= 1.80*10^11/​(4.70*10^6)) times as much as the above burden from ASRSs.
Welcome to the EA Forum, OGTutzauer! Thanks for the interesting thought.
I currently think one should focus on improving the welfare of farmed animals despite all the effects I discuss in the post. For example, I believe way more welfare would be gained by making all farmed animals live fully healthy lives than by eliminating the risk of ASRSs:
I estimated an expected annual mortality rate from ASRSs of 1.95*10^-5 adjusting results from the Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research (CEARCH), which corresponds to 161 k death/​year (= 1.96*10^-5*8.2*10^9) for the current population. Assuming 29.2 DALY/​death (= 1.98*10^9/​(67.9*10^6)) based on the years of life lost and deaths in 2021, the expected annual burden from ASRSs is 4.70 MDALY (= 161*10^3*29.2).
I got 180 k MDALY for farmed animals, i.e. 38.3 k (= 1.80*10^11/​(4.70*10^6)) times as much as the above burden from ASRSs.