FWIW, I consider the large share of vegans and vegetarians in EA (about half together, according to the RP survey) pleasantly surprising, a notable success for animal protection, and more encouraging than discouraging, but maybe this is because I’m contrasting with a shitty society-wide situation.
Also, if you include vegans, vegetarians, pescetarians and people trying to reduce their own meat consumption from the RP survey, that’s about 83%! Only 11.7% plainly responded “Eat meat”, and 5.6% responded “Other (please specify)”.
(Of course, people can say they’re trying to eat less meat without really succeeding, or while increasing consumption of the worst animal products.)
FWIW, I consider the large share of vegans and vegetarians in EA (about half together, according to the RP survey) pleasantly surprising, a notable success for animal protection, and more encouraging than discouraging, but maybe this is because I’m contrasting with a shitty society-wide situation.
Also, if you include vegans, vegetarians, pescetarians and people trying to reduce their own meat consumption from the RP survey, that’s about 83%! Only 11.7% plainly responded “Eat meat”, and 5.6% responded “Other (please specify)”.
(Of course, people can say they’re trying to eat less meat without really succeeding, or while increasing consumption of the worst animal products.)