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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 18 July 2013 06:06:20PM 1 point [-]

Do animal altruists regard zoos as a major contributor to animal suffering? Or do the numbers not compare when matched up against factory farming and the like?

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)