I’m so confused on why you wrote the post given the preferences you believe people (EAs?) have and that you are (almost?) vegetarian/​vegan.
I published the original post for One Step for Animals, which targets a general audience (not aligned with effective altruism) that may well find decreasing meat consumption harder than replacing chicken meat with beef or pork (without changing meat consumption much).
Making the change you propose decreases a bit animal pain… while decreasing the amount of meat one eats decreases it much more.
Replacing chicken meat with plant-based foods only decreases pain slightly more than replacing it with beef or pork.
I published the original post for One Step for Animals, which targets a general audience (not aligned with effective altruism) that may well find decreasing meat consumption harder than replacing chicken meat with beef or pork (without changing meat consumption much).
Replacing chicken meat with plant-based foods only decreases pain slightly more than replacing it with beef or pork.
This is very surprising to me! Super interesting! To be honest, I find this as important as the numbers you give in the post.