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DanielLC comments on When should an Effective Altruist be vegetarian? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 24 November 2014 03:19:55AM 0 points [-]

And where it gets really interesting is when you wonder if wild animals' lives are worth living. It's entirely possible that it's good to eat meat because it prevents more suffering from crowding out wild animals than it causes to the animals being farmed.