Yep- there is a trade-off in the sense that the money will go to one, and the other will miss out. I wasn’t very clear in my previous comment- sorry! What I meant is that we ideally aren’t pitting human and animal welfare against each other. Most arguments, I expect, will be claiming that giving the money in one direction will increase welfare overall. In fact, this increase in welfare will accrue to either animals or humans, but the question was never “which is more deserving of welfare”, it was “which option will produce the most welfare”. Does that make it clearer? It’s a subtler point than I thought while making it.
Yep- there is a trade-off in the sense that the money will go to one, and the other will miss out. I wasn’t very clear in my previous comment- sorry!
What I meant is that we ideally aren’t pitting human and animal welfare against each other. Most arguments, I expect, will be claiming that giving the money in one direction will increase welfare overall. In fact, this increase in welfare will accrue to either animals or humans, but the question was never “which is more deserving of welfare”, it was “which option will produce the most welfare”. Does that make it clearer? It’s a subtler point than I thought while making it.