Regarding the adoption of a fully vegan diet, I can understand the argument.
Could you say something on your position about a ‘vegan-friendly’ position?
In my experience, diet and taste are strongly formed by habits and expectations, and given habit-forming over a few years it should be easy to substantially reduce animal products in one’s diet (compared to the average western diet) without needing to put in much money, time or mental effort. For example one might decide to not actively seek vegan food it it comes at any relevant cost to oneself, but treat it as a serious option otherwise. I think that even when including the danger of trivial inconveniences into this consideration, it should be possible for most people to slowly accumulate some easily accessible vegan foods that they enjoy into their diet without bearing nearly the full costs of becoming vegan.
Would you agree that such an approach to vegan food would increase the altruistic cost:benefit ratio?
Regarding the adoption of a fully vegan diet, I can understand the argument.
Could you say something on your position about a ‘vegan-friendly’ position?
In my experience, diet and taste are strongly formed by habits and expectations, and given habit-forming over a few years it should be easy to substantially reduce animal products in one’s diet (compared to the average western diet) without needing to put in much money, time or mental effort. For example one might decide to not actively seek vegan food it it comes at any relevant cost to oneself, but treat it as a serious option otherwise. I think that even when including the danger of trivial inconveniences into this consideration, it should be possible for most people to slowly accumulate some easily accessible vegan foods that they enjoy into their diet without bearing nearly the full costs of becoming vegan.
Would you agree that such an approach to vegan food would increase the altruistic cost:benefit ratio?