Given your pessimism about individual outreach, the low (but surprisingly high) public support for banning animal agriculture, and the pushpack against incremental reforms, what paths do you see towards banning on a wide scale a) factory farming and b) animal agriculture generally?
Mainly through substitutes? Or is there a series of institutional reforms that are tractable and could get us the support to get there?
Factory farming bans specifically seem plausibly in reach in some regions.
To be clear, my “pushback against incremental reforms” is not meant to suggest that the average successful incremental reform will have net negative effects, just that there are real risks that we should be attentive to and seek to minimise or avoid where possible.
I do see incremental institutional reform as a very important contributor. I don’t have a specific “series” in mind. If we wanted to replicate the example of the British antislavery movement closely, we might seek bans on factory farming as a major step, and frame this explicitly as a step towards abolition. But there’s not much reason to expect that this was necessarily the optimal strategy—they were successful, but this success could be explicable due to many different contributing factors.
I think there are many tactics that could contribute in some shape or form. I’ve written about various institutional approaches here, but I do think that there’s some scope for individual focused tactics too, as addressed at the bottom of that post and in the section above (using them as a “complement”).
Given your pessimism about individual outreach, the low (but surprisingly high) public support for banning animal agriculture, and the pushpack against incremental reforms, what paths do you see towards banning on a wide scale a) factory farming and b) animal agriculture generally?
Mainly through substitutes? Or is there a series of institutional reforms that are tractable and could get us the support to get there?
Factory farming bans specifically seem plausibly in reach in some regions.
To be clear, my “pushback against incremental reforms” is not meant to suggest that the average successful incremental reform will have net negative effects, just that there are real risks that we should be attentive to and seek to minimise or avoid where possible.
I do see incremental institutional reform as a very important contributor. I don’t have a specific “series” in mind. If we wanted to replicate the example of the British antislavery movement closely, we might seek bans on factory farming as a major step, and frame this explicitly as a step towards abolition. But there’s not much reason to expect that this was necessarily the optimal strategy—they were successful, but this success could be explicable due to many different contributing factors.
I think there are many tactics that could contribute in some shape or form. I’ve written about various institutional approaches here, but I do think that there’s some scope for individual focused tactics too, as addressed at the bottom of that post and in the section above (using them as a “complement”).