Last March there was a Slate Star Codex essay you might be interested in [link] where Scott tried to compare the moral weight of various animals to the number of cortical neurons each species has on average. Those numbers don’t account for suffering under farm conditions or environmental impact, but they might help refine your intuitions.
Last March there was a Slate Star Codex essay you might be interested in [link] where Scott tried to compare the moral weight of various animals to the number of cortical neurons each species has on average. Those numbers don’t account for suffering under farm conditions or environmental impact, but they might help refine your intuitions.