Animal welfare: Methods to improve policy and practice

Science. 2023 Jul 7;381(6653):32-34. doi: 10.1126/science.adi0121. Epub 2023 Jul 6.

Mark Budolfson^{1

2

3}, Bob Fischer^{4

5}, Noah Scovronick⁶

¹ Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
² Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
³ Population Wellbeing Initiative, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
⁴ Department of Philosophy, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.
⁵ Rethink Priorities, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁶ Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Abstract

New methods are emerging to quantify human and animal welfare on a common scale, creating new tools for policy.