I personally think that the cost-effectiveness figures for veg*n outreach are implausibly positive. I don’t think it’s plausible that converting someone to vegetarianism through favoured methods like leafleting is many orders of magnitudes more cost-effective than these figures (in which case it’d cost mere cents). But, given our current evidence, I do think it’s plausible that leafleting is many orders of magnitudes less cost-effective than claimed. Peter says “maybe it takes $5 to create a vegetarian, but it might also take like >$5000”—at which points perhaps simply paying people in poorer countries to go veggie would be more cost-effective, as PETA controversially did in Detroit.
(Unfortunately I don’t have time to go into more depth on this issue. I’m far from an expert on it anyway!)
I personally think that the cost-effectiveness figures for veg*n outreach are implausibly positive. I don’t think it’s plausible that converting someone to vegetarianism through favoured methods like leafleting is many orders of magnitudes more cost-effective than these figures (in which case it’d cost mere cents). But, given our current evidence, I do think it’s plausible that leafleting is many orders of magnitudes less cost-effective than claimed. Peter says “maybe it takes $5 to create a vegetarian, but it might also take like >$5000”—at which points perhaps simply paying people in poorer countries to go veggie would be more cost-effective, as PETA controversially did in Detroit.
(Unfortunately I don’t have time to go into more depth on this issue. I’m far from an expert on it anyway!)
See also the discussion of this post on the EA Facebook group.