How do I offset my animal product consumption as easily as possible? The ideal product would be a basket of offsets that’s
easy to set up—ideally a single monthly donation equivalent to the animal product consumption of the average American, which I can scale up a bit to make sure I’m net positive
based on well-founded impact estimates
affects a wide variety of animals reflecting my actual diet—at a minimum my donation would be split among separate nonprofits improving the welfare of mammals, birds, fish, and invertebrates, and ideally it would closely track the suffering created by each animal product within that category
includes all animal products, not just meat.
I know I could potentially have higher impact just betting on saving 10 million shrimp or whatever, but I have enough moral uncertainty that I would highly value this kind of offset package. My guess is there are lots of people for whom going vegan is not possible or desirable, who would be in the same boat.
Thanks, I’ve started donating $33/month to the FarmKind bonus fund, which is double the calculator estimate for my diet. [1] I will probably donate ~$10k of stocks in 2025 to offset my lifetime diet impact—is there any reason not to do this? I’ve already looked at the non-counterfactual matching argument, which I don’t find convincing.
[1] I basically never eat chicken, substituting it with other meats, so I reduced the poultry category by 2⁄3 and allocated that proportionally between the beef and pork categories.
One reason to perhaps wait before offsetting your lifetime impact all at once could be to preserve your capital’s optionality.
Cultivated meat could in the future become common and affordable, or your dietary preferences could otherwise change such that $10k was too much to spend.
Your moral views on offsetting could also change. For example, you might decide that the $10k would be better spent on longtermist causes, or that it’d be strictly better to donate the $10k to the most cost-effective animal charity rather than offsetting.
I basically never eat chicken
That’s awesome. That probably gets you 90% of the way there already, even if there were no offset!
How do I offset my animal product consumption as easily as possible? The ideal product would be a basket of offsets that’s
easy to set up—ideally a single monthly donation equivalent to the animal product consumption of the average American, which I can scale up a bit to make sure I’m net positive
based on well-founded impact estimates
affects a wide variety of animals reflecting my actual diet—at a minimum my donation would be split among separate nonprofits improving the welfare of mammals, birds, fish, and invertebrates, and ideally it would closely track the suffering created by each animal product within that category
includes all animal products, not just meat.
I know I could potentially have higher impact just betting on saving 10 million shrimp or whatever, but I have enough moral uncertainty that I would highly value this kind of offset package. My guess is there are lots of people for whom going vegan is not possible or desirable, who would be in the same boat.
Have you seen farmkind? Seems like they are trying to provide a donation product for precisely this problem.
Specifically this.
Thanks, I’ve started donating $33/month to the FarmKind bonus fund, which is double the calculator estimate for my diet. [1] I will probably donate ~$10k of stocks in 2025 to offset my lifetime diet impact—is there any reason not to do this? I’ve already looked at the non-counterfactual matching argument, which I don’t find convincing.
[1] I basically never eat chicken, substituting it with other meats, so I reduced the poultry category by 2⁄3 and allocated that proportionally between the beef and pork categories.
One reason to perhaps wait before offsetting your lifetime impact all at once could be to preserve your capital’s optionality. Cultivated meat could in the future become common and affordable, or your dietary preferences could otherwise change such that $10k was too much to spend.
Your moral views on offsetting could also change. For example, you might decide that the $10k would be better spent on longtermist causes, or that it’d be strictly better to donate the $10k to the most cost-effective animal charity rather than offsetting.
That’s awesome. That probably gets you 90% of the way there already, even if there were no offset!