First I wasn’t making any big claims about what’s most important, I’m just responding to Lewis’s comment there which confused me a bit, and suggesting that perhaps more research in that in particular might not be so useful.
On your comment I would though expect mortality to not be a direct, ideal measure of suffering but still be important as one of the few objective measures we have. If chickens are dying early that could indicate health issues which might also cause suffering Some of the same things that would kill a chicken would be heavily correlated with what makes them suffer I imagine?
I agree it’s not going to be the most important metric but it is objective at least.
First I wasn’t making any big claims about what’s most important, I’m just responding to Lewis’s comment there which confused me a bit, and suggesting that perhaps more research in that in particular might not be so useful.
On your comment I would though expect mortality to not be a direct, ideal measure of suffering but still be important as one of the few objective measures we have. If chickens are dying early that could indicate health issues which might also cause suffering Some of the same things that would kill a chicken would be heavily correlated with what makes them suffer I imagine?
I agree it’s not going to be the most important metric but it is objective at least.