I’m currently in between lacto-ovo vegetarianism and veganism in that I’m a lacto-vegetarian. This is only because I don’t currently have a regular income (I’m still in high school), and attempting to replace dairy in particular has been quite an inconvenience.
So, my experience is that it is a lot less inconvenient to give up eggs than to give up dairy products, so perhaps you could try lacto-vegetarianism, but seeing as you are willing to go “95% vegan” and potentially “100% vegan”, they’re probably better in consequentialist terms overall.
Yeah, I think lacto-vegetarianism is probably 95% of the way in terms of impact on animal suffering anyway (or even more.) As I said above, for me the main reason for cutting out dairy too is that I think if I eat dairy I might be more likely to slip into eating eggs too down the line. But it’s possible I could just protect against that by setting more solid rules in place 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.
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I’m currently in between lacto-ovo vegetarianism and veganism in that I’m a lacto-vegetarian. This is only because I don’t currently have a regular income (I’m still in high school), and attempting to replace dairy in particular has been quite an inconvenience.
So, my experience is that it is a lot less inconvenient to give up eggs than to give up dairy products, so perhaps you could try lacto-vegetarianism, but seeing as you are willing to go “95% vegan” and potentially “100% vegan”, they’re probably better in consequentialist terms overall.
Yeah, I think lacto-vegetarianism is probably 95% of the way in terms of impact on animal suffering anyway (or even more.) As I said above, for me the main reason for cutting out dairy too is that I think if I eat dairy I might be more likely to slip into eating eggs too down the line. But it’s possible I could just protect against that by setting more solid rules in place 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.