I think it’s plausible that being more deliberate in your diet to avoid the lowest welfare options could have a lot of the same impact on your own perceptions of animals.
That being said, eating meat again would feel wrong to me, too. I specifically work on animal welfare. How can I eat those I’m trying to help?
Similarly, I’m a bit suspicious of non-vegetarian veterinarians helping farmed animals. If working with farmed animals doesn’t turn them away from meat, do they actually have their best interests at heart? What kind of doctor eats their patients?
And maybe this logic extends to those weighing the interests of nonhuman animals or similarly minded artificial sentience in the future.
I think it’s plausible that being more deliberate in your diet to avoid the lowest welfare options could have a lot of the same impact on your own perceptions of animals.
That being said, eating meat again would feel wrong to me, too. I specifically work on animal welfare. How can I eat those I’m trying to help?
Similarly, I’m a bit suspicious of non-vegetarian veterinarians helping farmed animals. If working with farmed animals doesn’t turn them away from meat, do they actually have their best interests at heart? What kind of doctor eats their patients?
And maybe this logic extends to those weighing the interests of nonhuman animals or similarly minded artificial sentience in the future.