Still pondering this. I understand why the politics taboo is necessary, but the definition of "politics" is rather hazy. I consider this approximately in the same boat as cryonics in terms of "lifestyle choice," and cryonics is a very popular topic here, but I don't know if that's a reference on what topics are acceptable or if cryonics is an exception made because there are few places on the internet where you can have frank discussions of it, period.

I'm pondering the nature of a hypothetical top level post I might make. If I do it, the crux of my argument will not be "you should all be vegetarian," but rather "I want you all to look seriously at your moral system, think about how the following three points relate to it, decide how much value an animal life has, and then, if your behavior does not line up with your actual morals, make an honest effort to change your behavior. Which might not mean becoming a full fledged vegetarian (as I said, I haven't even been successful at that myself). But I suspect that most of us, for one reason or another, are consuming far more meat than is actually rational given our respective worldviews.