The inconvenience I had in mind is not in your list, and comprises things in the area of, “Prefer to keep the diet I’m already accustomed to”, “Prefer omnivorous diets on taste etc. grounds to vegan ones”, and so on. I was thinking of an EA who is omnivorous and feels little/no compunction about eating meat (either because they aren’t ‘on board’ with the moral motivation for animal causes in general, or doesn’t find the arguments for veganism persuasive in particular). I think switching to a vegan diet isn’t best described as a minor inconvenience for people like these.
But to be clear, this doesn’t entail any moral obligation whatsoever on the hotel to serve meat—it’s not like they are forcing omnivorous guests to be vegan, but just not cooking them free (non-vegan) food. If a vegan offers me to stay at their house a) for free, b) offers vegan food for free too, c) welcomes me to, if I’m not a fan of vegan food, get my own food to cook at their house whenever I like—which seems basically the counterfactual scenario if I wasn’t staying with them in the first place, and d) explains all of this before I come, they’ve been supererogatory in accommodating me, and it would be absurd for me to say they’ve fallen short in not serving me free omnivorous food which they morally object to.
Yet insofar as ‘free food’ is a selling point of the hotel, ‘free vegan food’ may not be so enticing to omnivorous guests. Obviously the offer is still generous by itself, leave alone combined with free accommodation, but one could imagine it making a difference on the margin to omnivores (especially if they are cost-sensitive).
Thus there’s a trade-off in between these people and vegans who would be put off if the hotel served meat itself (even if vegan options were also provided). It’s plausible to me the best option to pick here (leave alone any other considerations) is the more ‘vegan-friendly’ policy. But this isn’t because the trade-off is in fact illusory because the ‘vegan-friendly’ policy is has minimal/minor costs to omnivores after all.
[Empirically though, this doesn’t seem to amount to all that much given (I understand) the hotel hasn’t been struggling for guests.]
The inconvenience I had in mind is not in your list, and comprises things in the area of, “Prefer to keep the diet I’m already accustomed to”, “Prefer omnivorous diets on taste etc. grounds to vegan ones”, and so on. I was thinking of an EA who is omnivorous and feels little/no compunction about eating meat (either because they aren’t ‘on board’ with the moral motivation for animal causes in general, or doesn’t find the arguments for veganism persuasive in particular). I think switching to a vegan diet isn’t best described as a minor inconvenience for people like these.
But to be clear, this doesn’t entail any moral obligation whatsoever on the hotel to serve meat—it’s not like they are forcing omnivorous guests to be vegan, but just not cooking them free (non-vegan) food. If a vegan offers me to stay at their house a) for free, b) offers vegan food for free too, c) welcomes me to, if I’m not a fan of vegan food, get my own food to cook at their house whenever I like—which seems basically the counterfactual scenario if I wasn’t staying with them in the first place, and d) explains all of this before I come, they’ve been supererogatory in accommodating me, and it would be absurd for me to say they’ve fallen short in not serving me free omnivorous food which they morally object to.
Yet insofar as ‘free food’ is a selling point of the hotel, ‘free vegan food’ may not be so enticing to omnivorous guests. Obviously the offer is still generous by itself, leave alone combined with free accommodation, but one could imagine it making a difference on the margin to omnivores (especially if they are cost-sensitive).
Thus there’s a trade-off in between these people and vegans who would be put off if the hotel served meat itself (even if vegan options were also provided). It’s plausible to me the best option to pick here (leave alone any other considerations) is the more ‘vegan-friendly’ policy. But this isn’t because the trade-off is in fact illusory because the ‘vegan-friendly’ policy is has minimal/minor costs to omnivores after all.
[Empirically though, this doesn’t seem to amount to all that much given (I understand) the hotel hasn’t been struggling for guests.]