Beef consumption directly costs less suffering/kg because of the amount of meat provided per cow. It also plausibly reduceswild-animal suffering by taking up land.
Oh, I see. Do you know if she is ok with eating lamb/mutton/goat? I suspect there are also grazing effects (that might reduce wild-animal suffering overall) but I don’t know whether they are as significant. Maybe @Brian_Tomasik knows?
I haven’t looked into sheep and goats specifically, but I imagine their wild-animal impacts would be fairly similar as for cattle. Unfortunately they’re smaller, so there’s more suffering and death per kg than for cattle, but they’re still much better than chicken/fish/etc.
Dairy is another lower-impact option, and I guess a lot of Hindus are ok with dairy.
Unfortunately, climate concerns and animal welfare concerns conflict when debating which animal products are least harmful: https://foodimpacts.org/
Beef consumption directly costs less suffering/kg because of the amount of meat provided per cow. It also plausibly reduces wild-animal suffering by taking up land.
Would be near impossible to convince my mom to eat beef because she’s a devout Hindu/we’re in India :(
Oh, I see. Do you know if she is ok with eating lamb/mutton/goat? I suspect there are also grazing effects (that might reduce wild-animal suffering overall) but I don’t know whether they are as significant. Maybe @Brian_Tomasik knows?
I haven’t looked into sheep and goats specifically, but I imagine their wild-animal impacts would be fairly similar as for cattle. Unfortunately they’re smaller, so there’s more suffering and death per kg than for cattle, but they’re still much better than chicken/fish/etc.
Dairy is another lower-impact option, and I guess a lot of Hindus are ok with dairy.
Unfortunately, climate concerns and animal welfare concerns conflict when debating which animal products are least harmful: https://foodimpacts.org/