Hi Aïda. That makes sense. However, I think the reasons you mentioned sometimes play against increasing animal welfare. Poorer welfare standards tend to have a lower carbon and land footprint.
Yes true. But I guess many people are happy to tolerate that negative externality as a medium-term price to pay for progress towards the longer term goal of no /​ very little animal consumption which would be better both for animal welfare and anthropocentric reasons such as mitigating climate change/​biorisk etc...
Iam very uncertain about whether decreasing the number of farmed animals increases or decreases animal welfare (in expectation) due to potentially dominant effects on soil invertebrates. In addition, I worry decreasing the number of farmed animals may prevent some from having positive lives.
Hi Aïda. That makes sense. However, I think the reasons you mentioned sometimes play against increasing animal welfare. Poorer welfare standards tend to have a lower carbon and land footprint.
Yes true. But I guess many people are happy to tolerate that negative externality as a medium-term price to pay for progress towards the longer term goal of no /​ very little animal consumption which would be better both for animal welfare and anthropocentric reasons such as mitigating climate change/​biorisk etc...
Good objection though! 🙂
I am very uncertain about whether decreasing the number of farmed animals increases or decreases animal welfare (in expectation) due to potentially dominant effects on soil invertebrates. In addition, I worry decreasing the number of farmed animals may prevent some from having positive lives.