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1 | Cost to improve welfare for one animal | Based on.. | Estimated % of suffering reduced by the charity intervention | Cost to prevent the amount of suffering one animal endures in its life on a factory farm | Animals that must be made available to meet the average person's yearly consumption | Wastage in supply chain | Total animals farmed per person per year | Adjustment for conservatism | Estimated offset cost per year | Average meals per person per week (rounded) | Offset cost per meal | Offset cost per weekly meal per year | Animals that must be made available per weekly meal per year | Carbon emissions per weekly meal per year (kg CO2eq) | Carbon offset cost per weekly meal per year | ||||||
2 | Cows | Meat | $57.61 | Giving Green's estimate of the impact of The Good Food Institute on the development of alternative proteins, and the influence this has on how many cows will be farmed for meat. Assumed same cost-effectiveness for dairy cows. | 100% | $57.61 | 0.10 | 1.0% | 0.11 | +120% | $13.38 | 4.0 | $0.064 | $3.33 | 0.0262 | 881.8 | $7.24 | ||||
3 | Dairy | 0.008 | 5.6% | 0.009 | +120% | $1.13 | 2.2 | $0.010 | $0.51 | 0.00406 | 84.7 | $0.70 | |||||||||
4 | Pigs | $0.04 | FarmKind's estimate using Sinergia's data on different corporate commitments in 2023 to ban certain piglet mutilations and reduce the amount of time that mother pigs are confined in tiny stalls | 2% | $1.88 | 0.34 | 7.8% | 0.37 | +150% | $1.71 | 3.6 | $0.009 | $0.48 | 0.1019 | 109.1 | $0.90 | |||||
5 | Birds for meat (i.e. chickens and turkeys) | $1.13 | Rethink Priorities' estimate for broiler corporate campaigns 2005-18. Taken conservative versions, e.g. the bottom of 90% confidence interval on all values, and adding costs of ballot initiatives and enforcement | 36% | $3.13 | 30 | 5.7% | 32.2 | +80% | $181.89 | 8.5 | $0.412 | $21.49 | 3.8088 | 66.9 | $0.55 | |||||
6 | Laying hens for eggs | $0.85 | The Humane League's estimate for their work in 2022 (Chosen because it's more conservative than Rethink Priorities' estimate for cage-free corporate campaigns in 2005-18 of $0.21/animal | 60% | $1.43 | 0.748 | 4.0% | 0.8 | +150% | $2.79 | 3.7 | $0.015 | $0.76 | 0.212 | 14.6 | $0.12 | |||||
7 | Fish (e.g. salmon, tilapia) | $0.46 | Fish Welfare Initiative's work improving welfare during life for fish farmed in India | 10% | $4.58 | 6 | 30.3% | 8.3 | +80% | $68.81 | 0.5 | $2.514 | $131.07 | 15.896 | 78.2 | $0.64 | |||||
8 | Crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs) | $0.001 | Shrimp Welfare Project's work on humane slaughter for Shrimp in Vietnam, Equador and Honduras | 5% | $0.02 | 158 | 25.9% | 213 | +100% | $8.53 | 0.3 | $0.582 | $30.36 | 759 | 168.1 | $1.38 | |||||
9 | Total (omnivore) | - | - | - | - | 196 | - | 255 | - | $278.25 | - | - | - | - | 4.83 | $39.68 | |||||
10 | Pescetarian | - | - | - | - | 165 | - | 222 | - | $81.26 | - | - | - | - | 0.33 | $2.69 | |||||
11 | Reducetarian (-50%) | - | - | - | - | 98 | - | 128 | - | $139.12 | - | - | - | - | 2.42 | $19.84 | |||||
12 | Vegetarian | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | $3.91 | - | - | - | - | 0.24 | $1.96 | |||||
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