Table 1.
Select quotations from scientists studying animal welfare representing welfare hedonism.
Table 2.
Vignettes for each experimental condition.
Fig 1.
Participant ratings (n = 502) for each concept across all four conditions: Natural life/healthy and feels good (NH-FG); unnatural life/unhealthy and feels good (UU-FG); natural life/healthy and feels bad (NH-FB) and unnatural life/unhealthy and feels bad (UU-FB).
For the statements: "Sally is happy”, "Sally is unhappy" and "Sally has a life worth living” participants indicated their agreement using a 7-point likert-type scale (1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree). Participants were asked to describe Sally's well-being, welfare and quality of life using a 7-point scale (1 = extremely bad, 7 = extremely good).
Table 3.
Effect of treatment: Feels good (FG) vs. feels bad (FB) and natural living and physical healthy (NH) vs. unnatural life and physically unhealthy (UU) for each concept tested including interaction term.