
Marcus Davis on Rethink Priorities
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How Many Farm Animals Are There?
A lot of the topics you're biting off are kind of shockingly neglected relative to their seeming importance at least from a impartial well-being perspective. So I think perhaps like one of the ones that really jumped out there again is which species or actually sentient or how many animals are there this is even a more fundamental question on farm animals in particular. They've got something like 10 to 60 trillion wild caught shrimp slaughter every year and 320 billion farm shrimp every year. It's hard to comprehend that it's like 1200 wild caught shrimp slaughtered per year per person on earth.
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