Do animal altruists regard zoos as a major contributor to animal suffering? Or do the numbers not compare when matched up against factory farming and the like?
While I don’t know what animal altruists think, thesestatistics might give an (extremely) rough idea of the numbers.
(the second one is only cattle and doesn’t distinguish between human/inhuman conditions though 80-90% of cattle are in feedlots with >1000 heads, so you could draw some order-of-magnitude comparisons)
Do animal altruists regard zoos as a major contributor to animal suffering? Or do the numbers not compare when matched up against factory farming and the like?
While I don’t know what animal altruists think, these statistics might give an (extremely) rough idea of the numbers.
(the second one is only cattle and doesn’t distinguish between human/inhuman conditions though 80-90% of cattle are in feedlots with >1000 heads, so you could draw some order-of-magnitude comparisons)