Executive summary: A replication and analysis of animal welfare cost-effectiveness calculations reveals significant discrepancies between estimates, ranging from 35 to 1500 times more effective than global health interventions, due to differing assumptions and potential errors in methodology.
Key points:
Key factors affecting calculations: chicken-years affected per dollar, conversion of chicken pain to DALYs, and moral weighting of animal vs. human welfare
Saulius report estimates 25.2 chickens affected per dollar for corporate campaigns, accounting for future effectiveness decline
Conversion of chicken pain to DALYs based on welfare footprint project and global burden of disease study
Rethink Priorities’ moral weights assign chickens 0.332 times the moral value of humans
Author’s corrected estimates: cage-free campaigns 100x more effective than AMF using RP weights, equal to AMF using neuron count weights
Discrepancies in other estimates explained by potential errors and differing assumptions in DALY conversion factors
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Executive summary: A replication and analysis of animal welfare cost-effectiveness calculations reveals significant discrepancies between estimates, ranging from 35 to 1500 times more effective than global health interventions, due to differing assumptions and potential errors in methodology.
Key points:
Key factors affecting calculations: chicken-years affected per dollar, conversion of chicken pain to DALYs, and moral weighting of animal vs. human welfare
Saulius report estimates 25.2 chickens affected per dollar for corporate campaigns, accounting for future effectiveness decline
Conversion of chicken pain to DALYs based on welfare footprint project and global burden of disease study
Rethink Priorities’ moral weights assign chickens 0.332 times the moral value of humans
Author’s corrected estimates: cage-free campaigns 100x more effective than AMF using RP weights, equal to AMF using neuron count weights
Discrepancies in other estimates explained by potential errors and differing assumptions in DALY conversion factors
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