interesting, you offset each species independently using the appropriate charity. e.g. an omnivore causes 8.3 fish to be farmed per year and it costs $117 to offset those fish via fish charity. if you offset all animals via SWP or some chicken welfare project, the number might be around $10 to offset a year of meat eating which is similar to my prior of 5 cents daily. (since you dont use moral weights, i am only estimating the $10 figure)
Your estimates of the donations needed to offset the harm to animals do not depend on welfare ranges (“welfare range” = “probability of sentience”*”welfare range conditional on sentience”). The values you use for the relative reduction in suffering for each group of animals only depend on pain intensities within species. You would only need to rely on welfare ranges if you were to consider donations to the best organisation instead of the best organisations helping each group of animals.
The calculator doesn’t funge different animals’ suffering such that you could donate all of your money to (for example) the Shrimp Welfare Project.
interesting, you offset each species independently using the appropriate charity. e.g. an omnivore causes 8.3 fish to be farmed per year and it costs $117 to offset those fish via fish charity. if you offset all animals via SWP or some chicken welfare project, the number might be around $10 to offset a year of meat eating which is similar to my prior of 5 cents daily. (since you dont use moral weights, i am only estimating the $10 figure)
We do use moral weights, in the sense that the Suffering Adjusted Day (SAD) methodology considers both probability of sentience and welfare ranges :)
Hi Aidan,
Your estimates of the donations needed to offset the harm to animals do not depend on welfare ranges (“welfare range” = “probability of sentience”*”welfare range conditional on sentience”). The values you use for the relative reduction in suffering for each group of animals only depend on pain intensities within species. You would only need to rely on welfare ranges if you were to consider donations to the best organisation instead of the best organisations helping each group of animals.