I agree with Paul that there’s a big gulf between milk and eggs. I wish we had a short, 5-letter word for “lacto-vegetarian” and that more people advocated lacto-vegetarianism as the baseline, since lacto-vegetarianism is quite a bit easier than veganism but has almost the same animal impact.
“Veganism” is a Schelling point but isn’t morally special, because you could go further still by choosing the plant products that are better for wild animals, by driving less to reduce the insects killed by that, by doing more animal activism, etc.
I agree with Paul that there’s a big gulf between milk and eggs. I wish we had a short, 5-letter word for “lacto-vegetarian” and that more people advocated lacto-vegetarianism as the baseline, since lacto-vegetarianism is quite a bit easier than veganism but has almost the same animal impact.
“Veganism” is a Schelling point but isn’t morally special, because you could go further still by choosing the plant products that are better for wild animals, by driving less to reduce the insects killed by that, by doing more animal activism, etc.