Pig production: Land use vs. cost to animal welfare
Welfare cost is based on the quantity of years lived weighted by quality-of-life scores from detailed welfare assessments. A positive "welfare cost" is bad: itmeans there is a cost to animal welfare. A negative value indicates benefits to welfare.
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- Animal lives lost per kilogram of product
- Animal lives lost per kilogram of product, including indirect deaths
- Antibiotic use in livestock per kilogram of meat product
- Antibiotic use intensity in livestock by region
- Egg production by system in the United Kingdom
- Kilograms of meat produced per animal
- Land animals slaughtered for meat
- Laying hens in cages and cage-free housing
- Levels of pain endured by the average hen in different production systems
- Number of countries that submit data on antibiotic use in livestock
- Number of farmed crustaceans killed for food
- Number of farmed fishes killed for food
- Number of fishes caught from the wild
- Pig production: Greenhouse gas emissions vs. cost to animal welfare
- Public attitudes to bans on factory farming and slaughterhouses in the United States
- Public attitudes to dietary choices and meat-eating in the United States
- Public attitudes to livestock treatment and animal pain in the United States
- Self-reported dietary choices by age, United Kingdom
- Share of egg production that is cage-free
- Share of eggs produced by different housing systems
- Time that fast and slower-growing chicken breeds spend in pain over their lifespan
- Vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters: self-reported dietary choices, United Kingdom
- Which countries have banned bullfighting?
- Which countries have banned chick culling?
- Which countries have banned fur farming?
- Which countries have banned fur trading?
- Yearly number of animals slaughtered for meat