Emerging technologies and scientific advances are opening new frontiers in animal welfare assessment, monitoring, and intervention that could transform our ability to improve animal lives at scale.
Animal welfare science stands at an inflection point where technology, ethics, and economics are converging in ways that could dramatically improve outcomes for billions of animals. Computer vision welfare monitoring, genetic improvement for health and pain sensitivity, alternative proteins, and in vitro research models each address different components of the welfare challenge. The next decade of welfare science may achieve more than the previous century.