tim comments on Open thread, July 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tim 18 July 2013 07:07:05PM 1 point [-]

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)