I love this post. I don’t necessarily agree with everything, but I love that you are willing to say something provocative, to stick your neck on the line and say what probably a lot of people are thinking.
I am in exaclty this situation. I am not a vegan, and I donate to a great charity, FarmKind. I believe that my net impact on animal welfare is positive. But I also agree that this is largely part of my privilege of being able to donate without much hardship.
This post, more than anything else I’ve read or seen on this topic, made me pause and question my own ethics. Any post that has that effect is a good post, we can all do with having our ethical assumptions challenged every now and then.
There are complex arguments about the value and necessity of being vegan, I am not expert enough to add new value to that debate.
My one observation, from someone living in a world where if you mention EA, people respond “what’s that?”—if they’ve heard of it, it’s because of SBF. And in this world, especially in Europe, veganism is sometimes seen (absolutely without justification!) as something that people do to impress others, rather than necessarily as virtuous. (look at all the jokes about vegans). So I’m not sure how much the showing virtue argument works outside areas where veganism is already popular. But it surely doesn’t hurt—more vegans will lead to even more vegans …
So thanks for a great post !!
PS I really hope the people to gave it an X also replied or commented, I think when someone presents a coherent argument, and you disagree with it enough to give it an X, you should explain what exactly you disagree with.
I love this post. I don’t necessarily agree with everything, but I love that you are willing to say something provocative, to stick your neck on the line and say what probably a lot of people are thinking.
I am in exaclty this situation. I am not a vegan, and I donate to a great charity, FarmKind. I believe that my net impact on animal welfare is positive. But I also agree that this is largely part of my privilege of being able to donate without much hardship.
This post, more than anything else I’ve read or seen on this topic, made me pause and question my own ethics. Any post that has that effect is a good post, we can all do with having our ethical assumptions challenged every now and then.
There are complex arguments about the value and necessity of being vegan, I am not expert enough to add new value to that debate.
My one observation, from someone living in a world where if you mention EA, people respond “what’s that?”—if they’ve heard of it, it’s because of SBF. And in this world, especially in Europe, veganism is sometimes seen (absolutely without justification!) as something that people do to impress others, rather than necessarily as virtuous. (look at all the jokes about vegans). So I’m not sure how much the showing virtue argument works outside areas where veganism is already popular. But it surely doesn’t hurt—more vegans will lead to even more vegans …
So thanks for a great post !!
PS I really hope the people to gave it an X also replied or commented, I think when someone presents a coherent argument, and you disagree with it enough to give it an X, you should explain what exactly you disagree with.