“How many shrimp really undergo eyestalk ablation?” by Henry Howard🔸

Saw this post by @Henri Thunberg 🔸 on Twitter: If true, these numbers are suprisingly low to me. Eyestalk ablation gets quite a bit of attention on the forum. Shrimp Welfare Project focuses on it and it forms part of their Shrimp Welfare Index. It gets attention from various animal welfare groups (Mercy For Animals, Animals Australia). A post on Reddit about it from a couple of days ago has 35 k upvotes and 2000 comments. An Australian politician recently posted about it. A lot of this attention, I suspect, is based on the false impression that this is happening to most or all of the shrimp. The numbers of animals involved seems like pertinent information but I can't see the number mentioned on the Shrimp Welfare Project website, nor on any of their forum posts. Rethink Priorities wrote a report here that on page 13 seems to estimate [...] --- First published: April 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tCDQh3DzZx3H5xqob/how-many-shrimp-really-undergo-eyestalk-ablation --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.