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Jo Anderson of Faunalytics and Saulius Šimčikas of Rethink Priorities on research for effective animal advocacy

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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Estimates of Global Captivity Vertebrate Numbers

In order to see whether we should prioritize on a uh issue like insect farming or managed bee welfare or shrimp farming it helps to know what the scale of the issue is. For example i'm still not sure how many broiler chickens are alive in farms at any given time and that could be as high as 16 billion. Knowing more exact number not just for the whole world but also for each country would probably influence things like say how much open philanthropy prioritizes and funds broiler campaigns. In some other cases we don't even know the order of magnitude so for example one organization wasn't sure if they should work on things like crocodile farming for skin or snake farming for skin because they

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