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#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare

#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare

Update: 2024-11-21
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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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#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare

#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare