“Shrimp: The animals most commonly used and killed for food production” by Rethink Priorities, Daniela R. Waldhorn, Elisa Autric

Citation: Romero Waldhorn, D., & Autric, E. (2022, December 21). Shrimp: The animals most commonly used and killed for food production. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/b8n3t SummaryDecapod crustaceans or, for short, decapods[1] (e.g., crabs, shrimp, or crayfish) represent a major food source for humans across the globe. If these animals are sentient, the growing decapod production industry likely poses serious welfare concerns for these animals.Information about the number of decapods used for food is needed to better assess the scale of this problem and the expected value of helping these animals.In this work we estimated the number of shrimp and prawns farmed and killed in a year, given that they seem to be the vast majority of decapods used in the food system.We estimated that around:440 billion (90% subjective confidence interval [SCI]: 300 billion - 620 billion) farmed shrimp are killed per year, which vastly exceeds the figure of the most numerous farmed vertebrates used [...] ---Outline:(07:47) Methods(08:56) Farmed shrimp estimates(11:50) Wild-caught shrimp estimates(16:36) Total shrimp estimates(16:51) Results(16:54) Farmed shrimp(22:45) Wild shrimp(27:19) Total shrimp estimates(29:39) Discussion(38:58) Conclusion(40:10) Acknowledgments(41:12) References(57:17) Appendix(57:20) Farmed shrimp estimates(01:07:05) Wild-caught shrimp estimatesThe original text contained 29 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 10th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Fhoq7tP9LYPqaJDxx/shrimp-the-animals-most-commonly-used-and-killed-for-food --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.