Strongly upvoted, as I think this is a very important question, and I’m glad you tried to answer it. The same goes for your other two articles on the effect of fishing. Thanks for your work.
I would also love to see similar analyses done on the impact of reducing the number of farmed animals on wild animal suffering, with different species studied separately. I am aware of Brian Tomasik’s work, but given the importance of this topic, I would like to see more research in this area (and if more work has been done, please point it out to me).
The only other public writing on “the impact of reducing the number of farmed animals on wild animal suffering” that comes to mind is Brian’s other articles, Matheny & Chan, 2005 and Shulman, 2013.
I have (so far) unpublished estimates for the number and moral weights of terrestrial wild insects and terrestrial wild arthropods affected by animal agriculture, applying Brian’s bottom-up estimation approach to different farmed species (chickens, pigs, beef cows, shrimp, black soldier flies, multiple commonly farmed fish species) and with direct land use by animal farms. Unsurprisingly, the ratio of wild animals affected to farmed animals affected is generally smaller for smaller farmed animals.
I’m working on a few other projects in this sequence first and don’t have a specific timeline for publication, so if you (or anyone else seeing this comment) would like a look at these estimates ahead of time, let me know and I can share them.
Strongly upvoted, as I think this is a very important question, and I’m glad you tried to answer it. The same goes for your other two articles on the effect of fishing. Thanks for your work.
I would also love to see similar analyses done on the impact of reducing the number of farmed animals on wild animal suffering, with different species studied separately. I am aware of Brian Tomasik’s work, but given the importance of this topic, I would like to see more research in this area (and if more work has been done, please point it out to me).
Hi Keyvan, thanks for the support! :)
The only other public writing on “the impact of reducing the number of farmed animals on wild animal suffering” that comes to mind is Brian’s other articles, Matheny & Chan, 2005 and Shulman, 2013.
I have (so far) unpublished estimates for the number and moral weights of terrestrial wild insects and terrestrial wild arthropods affected by animal agriculture, applying Brian’s bottom-up estimation approach to different farmed species (chickens, pigs, beef cows, shrimp, black soldier flies, multiple commonly farmed fish species) and with direct land use by animal farms. Unsurprisingly, the ratio of wild animals affected to farmed animals affected is generally smaller for smaller farmed animals.
I’m working on a few other projects in this sequence first and don’t have a specific timeline for publication, so if you (or anyone else seeing this comment) would like a look at these estimates ahead of time, let me know and I can share them.