Just thought I’d share a reference that may be useful when quantifying the animal welfare impact of pet food—it quantifies environmental impacts taking into account the effect of pet food purchases incentivising keeping more livestock, and it seems to me like a similar approach could be used to quantify animal welfare impacts.
Just thought I’d share a reference that may be useful when quantifying the animal welfare impact of pet food—it quantifies environmental impacts taking into account the effect of pet food purchases incentivising keeping more livestock, and it seems to me like a similar approach could be used to quantify animal welfare impacts.
Alexander et al., 2020, “The global environmental paw print of pet food”, Global Environmental Change, 65, 102153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102153 . Here’s a free-to-access version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17dpVo9QByHpe0NxyHUiR2VfYRnhLs71X/view