magfrump comments on Why Eat Less Meat? - Less Wrong

48 Post author: peter_hurford 23 July 2013 09:30PM

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Comment author: magfrump 26 July 2013 09:02:04PM 1 point [-]

How much value would this conversion have relative to vegetarianism?

For example, I recently changed to only buying grass-fed beef (in part for health/taste reasons); how much humane value would you think that has relative to replacing my beef with whatever else?

What about replacing eggs with cage free or free range eggs versus a vegan replacement?

Comment author: peter_hurford 26 July 2013 09:12:55PM -1 points [-]

The value seems obviously positive, but it's going to be very unclear as to what the exact value is. On a pure suffering per kg of meat basis, whatever you're doing with chicken welfare is going to dominate. I expect cage free / free range to be moderately better than still eating regular eggs, but not eating eggs to be perhaps like 3x better, relatively.