Hi Hans. I wonder whether the bulls may have positive lives despite the suffering they experience in the bullfights. In addition, the effects of producing their feed on soil invertebrates may be much larger or smaller than the effects on the bulls. I estimate that producing 1 kg of beef changes the living time of soil invertebrates by 1.39 billion animal-years, and of soil arthropodsby 27.8 M animal-years.
I guess this comes back to the old net-negative-lives debate. If you apply the logic of the logger, having more bulls around is good. Otherwise it’s likely bad, even if a particular bull has a net positive live.
Hi Hans. I wonder whether the bulls may have positive lives despite the suffering they experience in the bullfights. In addition, the effects of producing their feed on soil invertebrates may be much larger or smaller than the effects on the bulls. I estimate that producing 1 kg of beef changes the living time of soil invertebrates by 1.39 billion animal-years, and of soil arthropods by 27.8 M animal-years.
I guess this comes back to the old net-negative-lives debate. If you apply the logic of the logger, having more bulls around is good. Otherwise it’s likely bad, even if a particular bull has a net positive live.