#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare
Cynthia Schuck is the Scientific Director of the Welfare Footprint Project
Hear This Idea · Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti
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Show Notes
Dr Cynthia Schuck-Paim is the Scientific Director of the Welfare Footprint Project, a scientific effort to quantify animal welfare to inform practice, policy, investing and purchasing decisions.
You can find links and a transcript at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes/schuck.
We discuss:
- How to begin thinking about quantifying animal experiences in a cross-comparable way
- Whether the ability to feel pain is unique to big brained animals, or more widespread in the tree of life
- How fish farming compares to poultry and livestock farming
- How worried to be about bird flu zoonosis
- Whether different animal species experience time differently
- Whether positive experiences like joy could make life worth living for some farmed animals
- How animal welfare advocates can learn from anti-corruption nonprofits
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