Viliam comments on The ethics of eating meat - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam 18 February 2016 01:15:38PM 0 points [-]

An important part of promoting vegetarianism is to make the alternatives to meat more convenient.

For example, financial subventions to vegetarian restaurants could be an effective way of reducing meat consumption.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 February 2016 07:27:22PM *  0 points [-]

financial subventions to vegetarian restaurants could be an effective way of reducing meat consumption.

Citation needed.

If you think it's obvious, here is an obvious counter-point: if you subsidise my veggies, that will leave extra money in my budget to buy more meat.