What’s your take on diversifying approaches to address the human element of diet change? The species that suffer the most also seem to have the most resistance to cultural diet change. As a movement, we seem to have gone all-in on chicken welfare commitments. What are some alternative interventions that you’re excited about?
I think we should try lots of approaches to diet change, since I don’t think we’ve yet found approaches that we have a lot of evidence that they robustly work. I’m not sure if we evidence that the species that suffer the most are the ones people are most resistant to stopping eating. E.g. there’s some evidence people are most resistant to giving up dairy, but less resistant to dropping fish. I agree chicken welfare is a major movement focus, but I’m also very excited about any intervention with demonstrated potential to affect the largest numbers of animals.
What’s your take on diversifying approaches to address the human element of diet change? The species that suffer the most also seem to have the most resistance to cultural diet change. As a movement, we seem to have gone all-in on chicken welfare commitments. What are some alternative interventions that you’re excited about?
I think we should try lots of approaches to diet change, since I don’t think we’ve yet found approaches that we have a lot of evidence that they robustly work. I’m not sure if we evidence that the species that suffer the most are the ones people are most resistant to stopping eating. E.g. there’s some evidence people are most resistant to giving up dairy, but less resistant to dropping fish. I agree chicken welfare is a major movement focus, but I’m also very excited about any intervention with demonstrated potential to affect the largest numbers of animals.