Wouldn’t a person’s “welfare footprint” also include, e.g., all the cases where they brightened someone’s life a little bit by having a pleasant interaction with them? The purpose (“different animal products have vastly different welfare harms”) seems fairly narrow but the term suggests something much broader.
Interesting. Then I guess strictly speaking it makes more sense to speak only of the welfare footprint of products, rather than of a whole person’s carbon footprint, unlike how we speak of both products and people having carbon footprints.
Wouldn’t a person’s “welfare footprint” also include, e.g., all the cases where they brightened someone’s life a little bit by having a pleasant interaction with them? The purpose (“different animal products have vastly different welfare harms”) seems fairly narrow but the term suggests something much broader.
Interesting. Then I guess strictly speaking it makes more sense to speak only of the welfare footprint of products, rather than of a whole person’s carbon footprint, unlike how we speak of both products and people having carbon footprints.