Nick_Tarleton comments on Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 04 May 2009 04:11:02AM 8 points [-]

AFAIK, most factory-farmed animals are grain-fed, so this actually multiplies the harm of meat-eating.

Comment author: Utilitarian 05 May 2009 10:53:15PM 0 points [-]

Indeed. Gaverick Matheny and Kai M. A. Chan have formalized that point in an excellent paper, "The Illogic of the Larder."