”Overall, an average of at least 275 hours of disabling pain, 2,313 hours of hurtful pain and 4,645 hours of annoying pain are prevented [over 60 to 80 weeks] for each hen kept in an aviary instead of CC during her laying life”
Over 40 years of life of several hens, this would be over 7,000 hours of disabling pain and 62,000 hours of hurtful pain removed.
It feels like, comparatively, adding one year of life to someone is much less impressive, even assuming humans have the ability to suffer more?
Thanks for this. I wonder roughly how many hours of “disabling pain” or “hurtful pain” we estimate are diverted by saving 1 DALY. That would help me get a better sense of the tradeoff.
DALYs in global health use discount measures which lie between zero and one. Chronic back pain for example has a disability weight of 0.1, (for simplicity assumes the life of the average person with chronic back pain is 10% worse than someone with no health issues)
I could be missing something but I don’t think that we calculate DALY equivalents for excruciating pain for things like torture, which couldn’t just be calculated through discounting as they cause net negative living time. that’s why they have to be newly estimated for animals in this situation.
According to the welfare footprint project, going from cages to cage-free removes a large part of the pain laying hens have to go through : Transition to cage-free systems – Welfare Footprint Project
”Overall, an average of at least 275 hours of disabling pain, 2,313 hours of hurtful pain and 4,645 hours of annoying pain are prevented [over 60 to 80 weeks] for each hen kept in an aviary instead of CC during her laying life”
Over 40 years of life of several hens, this would be over 7,000 hours of disabling pain and 62,000 hours of hurtful pain removed.
It feels like, comparatively, adding one year of life to someone is much less impressive, even assuming humans have the ability to suffer more?
Thanks for this. I wonder roughly how many hours of “disabling pain” or “hurtful pain” we estimate are diverted by saving 1 DALY. That would help me get a better sense of the tradeoff.
Anyone have a better sense? @NickLaing ?
I’m afraid I can’t help here.
DALYs in global health use discount measures which lie between zero and one. Chronic back pain for example has a disability weight of 0.1, (for simplicity assumes the life of the average person with chronic back pain is 10% worse than someone with no health issues)
I could be missing something but I don’t think that we calculate DALY equivalents for excruciating pain for things like torture, which couldn’t just be calculated through discounting as they cause net negative living time. that’s why they have to be newly estimated for animals in this situation.