Even for fish like salmon that are larger than chickens, they still spend far more time being farmed than chickens farmed for meat, because chickens farmed for meat live such short lives, around 40-60 days. Then the days in captivity per kg of meat are much higher, too. See Welfare Footprint Institute’s chart here (direct link to the interactive chart):
That being said, my impressions, perhaps wrong, is that broilers have really bad lives throughout, experiencing substantial disabling pain. I’m less sure about how bad the lives of farmed fish are.
Thanks, Michael. Relatedly, below are myestimates of the decrease in the welfare of directly affected animals in QALYs per food-kg due to increasing the consumption of various animal-based foods.
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Even for fish like salmon that are larger than chickens, they still spend far more time being farmed than chickens farmed for meat, because chickens farmed for meat live such short lives, around 40-60 days. Then the days in captivity per kg of meat are much higher, too. See Welfare Footprint Institute’s chart here (direct link to the interactive chart):
That being said, my impressions, perhaps wrong, is that broilers have really bad lives throughout, experiencing substantial disabling pain. I’m less sure about how bad the lives of farmed fish are.
Thanks, Michael. Relatedly, below are my estimates of the decrease in the welfare of directly affected animals in QALYs per food-kg due to increasing the consumption of various animal-based foods.