It seems possible to me that moral advocacy efforts can happen after alternative proteins have scaled up, but before there are laws to stop factory farming for food entirely.
I find this very interesting! And I tend to agree.Inspired by you, it looks to me that a solution to my worry, if there is a justified worry at all, is to start advocating for a ban on FFFF, when it’s nearly (i.e. 80%), but not yet, obsolete. And this view means that we should still try to speed up alt-pro!
I don’t think alternative proteins replacing, say, 80% of meat will result in people thinking non-meat uses of animals is morally okay in a lock-in kind of way.
Just to be clear, the lock-in I am referring to is losing the only opportunity to use moral reasons to eliminate FFFF. I still hold the view that if alt-pro just suddenly replace FFFF, we will miss on a golden opportunity to replace what might turn out to be the easiest kind of factory farming to replace and therefore use it to change humanity’s value (it might be hard to believe now, but I am afraid the other uses could have huge economic potentials). But since we now agree that we can use alt-pro to replace 80% of FFFF, and then do moral/legal advocacy from there, maybe we still have a realistic chance to make the elimination of FFFF a moral change.
I find this very interesting! And I tend to agree.Inspired by you, it looks to me that a solution to my worry, if there is a justified worry at all, is to start advocating for a ban on FFFF, when it’s nearly (i.e. 80%), but not yet, obsolete. And this view means that we should still try to speed up alt-pro!
Just to be clear, the lock-in I am referring to is losing the only opportunity to use moral reasons to eliminate FFFF. I still hold the view that if alt-pro just suddenly replace FFFF, we will miss on a golden opportunity to replace what might turn out to be the easiest kind of factory farming to replace and therefore use it to change humanity’s value (it might be hard to believe now, but I am afraid the other uses could have huge economic potentials). But since we now agree that we can use alt-pro to replace 80% of FFFF, and then do moral/legal advocacy from there, maybe we still have a realistic chance to make the elimination of FFFF a moral change.