Wouldn’t farming bees be better than farming rats? They are even smaller, and you could support the operation by selling the honey. (If bees don’t win because they are smaller, why not go bigger and create a happy farm full of egg laying chickens or something? Same advantage of being able to support the operation by selling animal products.)
Such research might be very high leverage if bee happiness correlates positively with honey production and you can develop and market a relatively cheap product to bee farmers that increases bee happiness and thus honey production.
Wouldn’t farming bees be better than farming rats? They are even smaller, and you could support the operation by selling the honey. (If bees don’t win because they are smaller, why not go bigger and create a happy farm full of egg laying chickens or something? Same advantage of being able to support the operation by selling animal products.)
That’s not a bad idea. The main problem is we know less about what makes bees’ lives good, or if their lives are even capable of being good or bad.
Seems reasonable.
Such research might be very high leverage if bee happiness correlates positively with honey production and you can develop and market a relatively cheap product to bee farmers that increases bee happiness and thus honey production.