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animal welfare
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Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Sep 14, 2022 9 facts
claimThe conceptual engineering project regarding sentience, as described by Veit and Browning (2020b), is designed to be useful for the science of consciousness while also serving animal welfare and ethics.
claimHeather Browning and Walter Veit have published multiple papers between 2021 and 2022 regarding animal welfare, including topics such as end-of-life welfare, de-extinction, and positive welfare in wild animals.
referenceSchnell, Browning, and Birch (2022) argue that octopus farming raises significant animal welfare concerns and is unsustainable.
claimBrowning (2020b) defended a Benthamite view of animal welfare by utilizing the concept of a common currency for evaluation.
claimA measure of pathological complexity could enable the ranking of animals according to a 'sentience multiplier' to help address the difficulty of measuring animal welfare.
referenceHeather Browning published 'The natural behavior debate: two conceptions of animal welfare' in 2020.
claimMarian Stamp Dawkins argued in 1998 that animal welfare and consciousness are linked to evolutionary processes.
perspectiveMarian Dawkins argues that animal welfare science lacks sufficient evolutionary thinking and requires the application of 'Darwinian medicine' to truly understand animal welfare and subjective experience.
referenceHeather Browning published a preprint in 2020 titled 'Assessing measures of animal welfare'.
Measurement of diets that are healthy, environmentally sustainable ... frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimExamples of social metrics in food systems include gender equity, child labor, community rights, farmer’s livelihood, working conditions, worker wellbeing, animal welfare, female labor force participation, and livable wages for workers.
claimResearchers (cited as 7, 38–42) identify equity, social values, child labor, social justice, gender equality, solidarity networks, farmworker justice, agency, dignity in food traditions, animal welfare, and inclusivity as important conceptual constructs for discussing the impacts of dietary and food system transitions.
A Scoping Review of Indicators for Sustainable Healthy Diets frontiersin.org Jan 12, 2022 2 facts
claimAnimal welfare in diet assessment is measured using metrics such as animal life years suffered, loss of animal lives, and loss of morally adjusted animal lives.
measurementThe scoping review identified 59 sociocultural indicators for assessing the sustainability of diets, categorized into concepts including cultural acceptability (10), animal welfare (3), satisfaction (3), attitudes (1), food security (1), cost of diets (24), environmental costs (7), health costs (4), productivity costs (1), and other (5).
The Western Diet: Processed Foods and Meats Are Killing Us sentientmedia.org Jan 10, 2019 1 fact
perspectiveThe author posits that veganism is a lifestyle rather than just a diet, and that animal welfare should be the primary motivation for adopting it.
Measuring Adherence to Sustainable Healthy Diets - R Discovery discovery.researcher.life Dec 26, 2022 1 fact
claimCulturally, Sustainable Healthy Diets reflect moral values related to animal welfare, belief systems, veganism, and religious practices.