Banning slaughterhouses is essentially a ban on eating meat, right? I can’t imagine that 43% of the US public would support that, when no more than 10% of the US public is vegetarian in the first place. (Estimates vary, you say 1% in this article, and 10% is the most aggressive one I could find.)
It seems much more likely that these surveys are invalid for some reason. Perhaps the word “slaughterhouses” confused people, or perhaps people are just answering surveys based on emotion without bothering to think through what banning slaughterhouses actually means.
Yes I implore readers to defer to common sense here. The face validity of there results is poor and I would suggest further work is done to improve the survey methodology, understanding people’s understanding of the question and how they’d change their response in relation to a political campaign where there would be a saturation of information from very powerful commercial agricultural interests. I’m sick of seeing EA making political blunders.
Banning slaughterhouses is essentially a ban on eating meat, right? I can’t imagine that 43% of the US public would support that, when no more than 10% of the US public is vegetarian in the first place. (Estimates vary, you say 1% in this article, and 10% is the most aggressive one I could find.)
It seems much more likely that these surveys are invalid for some reason. Perhaps the word “slaughterhouses” confused people, or perhaps people are just answering surveys based on emotion without bothering to think through what banning slaughterhouses actually means.
Yes I implore readers to defer to common sense here. The face validity of there results is poor and I would suggest further work is done to improve the survey methodology, understanding people’s understanding of the question and how they’d change their response in relation to a political campaign where there would be a saturation of information from very powerful commercial agricultural interests. I’m sick of seeing EA making political blunders.