I think everyone in the developed world should endeavour to eat more plants and fewer animals. There are many motivators to this, and I think the two strongest motivators are greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. I think the vegetarians and vegans are probably broadly morally correct, and I think that any rationale that motivates one to vegetarianism or veganism is a valid one.
That said, I’m extremely skeptical of any attempt to create a metric to somehow create a proportional relationship between animal suffering hours and tons of C emitted. That seems extremely difficult to me, even when it’s mapped out in neat tables.
I think everyone in the developed world should endeavour to eat more plants and fewer animals. There are many motivators to this, and I think the two strongest motivators are greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. I think the vegetarians and vegans are probably broadly morally correct, and I think that any rationale that motivates one to vegetarianism or veganism is a valid one.
That said, I’m extremely skeptical of any attempt to create a metric to somehow create a proportional relationship between animal suffering hours and tons of C emitted. That seems extremely difficult to me, even when it’s mapped out in neat tables.