The problem is that food scales. If you do animal research, you’re causing distress to the animals, but it’s constant. It doesn’t matter if there’s one person or billions. You only have to do the research once. Food isn’t like that. If you want to feed a billion people, it requires a billion times more animal cruelty than feeding one person.
I edited the comment before you answered. I don’t think we really disagree here. Just wanted to point out why the paper might focus more on animal research than food industry.
The problem is that food scales. If you do animal research, you’re causing distress to the animals, but it’s constant. It doesn’t matter if there’s one person or billions. You only have to do the research once. Food isn’t like that. If you want to feed a billion people, it requires a billion times more animal cruelty than feeding one person.
I guess what I tried to say is that cruelty isn’t necessary for growing animals for food, but it is necessary for certain kinds of research.
I edited the comment before you answered. I don’t think we really disagree here. Just wanted to point out why the paper might focus more on animal research than food industry.
Research scales too, just not as much.