Effective altruists talk a lot about cooperation but I actually think its sort of pathologically uncooperative to eat meat. It seems pretty hard to dismiss the arguments for veganism. Lots of provably well informed EAs (in the sense they could score well on a test of EA knowledge) are going to settle on ‘dont personally participate in enormous moral outrages’. Why would you personally make the problem worse? And make the social situation worse for vegan EAs. It’s a very serious breach of solidarity. (Though maybe using the term solidarity outs me as a leftie)
Effective altruists talk a lot about cooperation but I actually think its sort of pathologically uncooperative to eat meat. It seems pretty hard to dismiss the arguments for veganism. Lots of provably well informed EAs (in the sense they could score well on a test of EA knowledge) are going to settle on ‘dont personally participate in enormous moral outrages’. Why would you personally make the problem worse? And make the social situation worse for vegan EAs. It’s a very serious breach of solidarity. (Though maybe using the term solidarity outs me as a leftie)