If you think the signalling benefits from being veg*n are large, then it seems plausible to me that the signalling benefits from being a āscope-sensitiveā or āevidence-sensitiveā veg*n are larger, at least depending on your background culture and how high-bandwidth of a message you can send.
My family didnāt ask any questions when I became vegetarian (lots of their friends are vegetarian), but the fact that I still eat oysters causes no end of questions. This leads to conversations about different types of animal sentience that feel more like theyāre actually about our treatment of animals than would have happened if I were a ānormalā vegetarian.
Iāve had less opportunity to see the effects firsthand, but I think being averse to foods in rough proportion to their suffering per calorie, e.g. eating beef but avoiding eggs (and talking about why you do this, when asked) might have a similar result.
[This isnāt to argue that the signalling benefits outweigh the direct harm.]
If you think the signalling benefits from being veg*n are large, then it seems plausible to me that the signalling benefits from being a āscope-sensitiveā or āevidence-sensitiveā veg*n are larger, at least depending on your background culture and how high-bandwidth of a message you can send.
My family didnāt ask any questions when I became vegetarian (lots of their friends are vegetarian), but the fact that I still eat oysters causes no end of questions. This leads to conversations about different types of animal sentience that feel more like theyāre actually about our treatment of animals than would have happened if I were a ānormalā vegetarian.
Iāve had less opportunity to see the effects firsthand, but I think being averse to foods in rough proportion to their suffering per calorie, e.g. eating beef but avoiding eggs (and talking about why you do this, when asked) might have a similar result.
[This isnāt to argue that the signalling benefits outweigh the direct harm.]