“Quantifying animal suffering and the impact of interventions using the Welfare Footprint Framework” by Wladimir J. Alonso, cynthiaschuck

Introduction Accurately quantifying animal suffering is a critical step in ensuring that welfare interventions are evidence-based and lead to meaningful improvements. We are excited to share this transcript from our workshop at EAG: London 2024, where we introduced the methodology behind the Welfare Footprint Project. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizers, Stien van der Ploeg for being a wonderful MC and for the kind introduction, Niko Bjork for all the help, for putting together this transcript and inviting us to submit it to the EA Forum, and finally, the audience for their insightful questions during the talk and the follow-up office hours in this incredible event. This talk highlights the importance of quantifying animal welfare to effectively prioritize and implement interventions. We introduce the Welfare Footprint Project, which provides a structured approach to measuring welfare impacts across different species and production systems. At the [...] ---Outline:(00:08) Introduction(02:30) EA Global London: 2024 talk(02:50) Throughlines between the Welfare Footprint Project and the work of Jeremy Bentham(03:54) Felicific calculus(04:41) Looking towards the future(05:31) How to prioritize between sources of animal suffering?(06:12) Using the Welfare Footprint Framework to quantity animal suffering(07:48) Estimating the cost effectiveness interventions(09:12) Breaking down the Welfare Footprint Framework(13:30) Using the Pain-Track notation system(17:52) Levels of pain intensity(19:33) Case study: surgical castration of piglets(20:37) Rating pieces of evidence on support for each intensity hypothesis(21:39) Assessing the probability of pain being of each intensity level(22:10) Cumulative Pain(22:50) A scale of cumulative pain and cumulative pleasure(23:42) Pain-Track can estimate the welfare impacts for various populations and interventions(24:55) Why time-based welfare impact is an effective metric(26:17) Anyone can understand pain and pleasure(27:40) Introduction to the Pain-Track GPT tool(31:41) QandAThe original text contained 26 images which were described by AI. --- First published: October 17th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TQgjsxBdWTxksZJh9/quantifying-animal-suffering-and-the-impact-of-interventions --- 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.