[Separating from my other comment, since it’s a separate idea]
There’s a fifth idea that activists might consider when taking conflicted omnivores seriously, although it’s a bit ickier. Activists may be able to take whatever feeling is underlying the answers to these polls, and combine it with peoples’ general lack of education around factory farming, and garner broad support for something that seems much less radical than it is. For example, imagine a ballot initiative that aimed to “ban artificial insemination” in the dairy industry. Given polls like these, people may be inclined to support it, despite being unaware that it could cripple the dairy industry.
[Separating from my other comment, since it’s a separate idea]
There’s a fifth idea that activists might consider when taking conflicted omnivores seriously, although it’s a bit ickier. Activists may be able to take whatever feeling is underlying the answers to these polls, and combine it with peoples’ general lack of education around factory farming, and garner broad support for something that seems much less radical than it is. For example, imagine a ballot initiative that aimed to “ban artificial insemination” in the dairy industry. Given polls like these, people may be inclined to support it, despite being unaware that it could cripple the dairy industry.