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animal welfare

How animals are treated, factory farming above all, and what eating them costs.

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  1. EN

    Elizabeth Van Nostrand quoted

    Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass

    Our readingFarm animal welfare tends to improve when an animal's stress directly and measurably reduces farmers' economic productivity.

    Their wordsAn advantage cows have that egg chickens lack is that stress immediately and measurably decreases their economic productivity.

    ↗Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)acesounderglass.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  2. 2 years earlier
  3. SA

    Scott Alexander quoted

    Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten

    Our readingEffective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending.

    Their wordsEA has done a great job working on this (see list of accomplishments above), and I think the AI and x-risk people have just as much to be proud of as the global health and animal welfare people.

    ↗In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com 5th of 5 in this piece

  4. 14 years earlier
  5. NP

    Natalie Portman quoted

    Israeli-born American actor and filmmaker who won…

    Our readingThe documented torture of farmed animals is unacceptable, whether or not one thinks animals have personalities

    Their wordsPerhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities, but the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable, and the human cost Foer describes in his book, of which I was previously unaware, is universally compelling.

    ↗Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009)huffpost.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  7. NP

    Natalie Portman quoted

    Our readingThe human cost of factory farming, to slaughterhouse workers and above all to the environment, is staggering

    Their wordsThe human cost of factory farming -- both the compromised welfare of slaughterhouse workers and, even more, the environmental effects of the mass production of animals -- is staggering.

    ↗Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009)huffpost.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  9. NP

    Natalie Portman quoted

    Our readingFactory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age

    Their wordsFactory farming of animals will be one of the things we look back on as a relic of a less-evolved age.

    ↗Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009)huffpost.com 3rd of 3 in this piece