“Quantifying and prioritizing shrimp welfare threats” by Hannah McKay, William McAuliffe, Rethink Priorities

Citation: McKay, H. and McAuliffe, W. (2024). Quantifying and prioritizing shrimp welfare threats. Rethink Priorities. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/4QR8K The report is also available on the Rethink Priorities website and as a pdf here. Executive summary This is the fourth report in the Rethink Priorities Shrimp Welfare Sequence. In this report, we quantify the suffering caused to shrimp by 18 welfare threats to assess which welfare issues cause the most harm. See a complete description of the methodology here. We focused on penaeid shrimp in ongrowing farms and broodstock facilities. Incorporating uncertainty at each step of the model, we estimated the prevalence, intensity, and duration of pain caused by each welfare issue. The intensity was based on the Welfare Footprint Project's Pain-Track categories, and ‘pain’ refers to their definition of pain, encapsulating both physical and mental negative experiences (Alonso & Schuck-Paim, 2024a). We collapse different pain type estimates into a single metric [...] ---Outline:(00:28) Executive summary(05:56) Method and model specification(10:24) Analytic Approach(11:31) Prevalence(13:09) Duration(15:22) Intensity(16:32) Aggregating results(18:30) Model Limitations(20:44) Model Interpretation(23:38) Results(23:41) Aggregate Pain(25:41) Ranking Welfare Threats(28:42) Conclusion(31:15) Acknowledgments(31:51) AppendixThe original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 13th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XKJjz78BG2T2KCKd9/quantifying-and-prioritizing-shrimp-welfare-threats --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.