Strongly agree with the point about being more convincing while being flexible. Of the friends whose minds I’ve changed, every single one was won over while I was being flexible and expressing that it didn’t need to be all or nothing.
Another point about cows is that their meat is the most wasteful of land and water, and the most polluting. These are “side” arguments but the collapse of ecosystems across the globe is also an important issue to me and I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be to others who care about things like suffering reduction. It surely is inducing a lot of suffering now, human and otherwise, besides my personal belief that “a diverse and robust biosphere is intrinsically good.”
Strongly agree with the point about being more convincing while being flexible. Of the friends whose minds I’ve changed, every single one was won over while I was being flexible and expressing that it didn’t need to be all or nothing.
Another point about cows is that their meat is the most wasteful of land and water, and the most polluting. These are “side” arguments but the collapse of ecosystems across the globe is also an important issue to me and I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be to others who care about things like suffering reduction. It surely is inducing a lot of suffering now, human and otherwise, besides my personal belief that “a diverse and robust biosphere is intrinsically good.”