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Kenny Easwaran's avatar

Animal welfare is finally valuable. Global health is both finally and instrumentally valuable.

Mere ends-in-themselves can't compete with things that are also means (since those means are the means to benefit many more ends-in-themselves).

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Connor Jennings's avatar

It's also worth considering the benefits to human health that come about from improving animal welfare. To me it seems like a win-win

- Less antibiotic resistance

- Lower the risk of a pandemic

- Decreasing meat consumption probably lowers the risk of heart disease and cancer

- Beneficial effects on the environment

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