FWIW, I did the same comparison relying on Rethink Priorities’ welfare range estimates, and Welfare Footprint Project’s data on the time broilers experience various types of pain. I concluded corporate campaings for broiler welfare are 1.71 k times as effective as GiveWell’s top charities, which is qualitatively similar to the 500 to 2 k of the post quoted above (its Guesstimate model outputs different results when it is refreshed; 500 to 2 k is the interval I got for 5 runs or so).
On the intersetion between human and animal welfare, have you considered discussing the meat eater problem? One may argue it does not apply much to GiveWell’s top charities, which save lives in countries where animal consumption is low, but consumption will tend to increase as they eventually get richer. I suppose it would be interesting to model the economics of this, and figure out how accounting for the impacts on farmed animals changes the cost-effectiveness of global health and development interventions. FWIW, I did a quite shallow analysis on this.
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FWIW, I did the same comparison relying on Rethink Priorities’ welfare range estimates, and Welfare Footprint Project’s data on the time broilers experience various types of pain. I concluded corporate campaings for broiler welfare are 1.71 k times as effective as GiveWell’s top charities, which is qualitatively similar to the 500 to 2 k of the post quoted above (its Guesstimate model outputs different results when it is refreshed; 500 to 2 k is the interval I got for 5 runs or so).
On the intersetion between human and animal welfare, have you considered discussing the meat eater problem? One may argue it does not apply much to GiveWell’s top charities, which save lives in countries where animal consumption is low, but consumption will tend to increase as they eventually get richer. I suppose it would be interesting to model the economics of this, and figure out how accounting for the impacts on farmed animals changes the cost-effectiveness of global health and development interventions. FWIW, I did a quite shallow analysis on this.