Definitely! When I went vegan, I prompted someone I know to look up how dairy cows are treated (not well), and they changed their diet quite a bit in light of that. So I have seen downstream effects personally. Caveat that I am annoying and prone to evangelize.
And if i were going to promote one definitely-not-scalable intervention to one very-hard-to-reach-population, I would take a bunch of die-hard meat eaters to Han Dynasty on the upper west side of Manhattan and order 1) DanDan noodles without pork 2) pea leaves with garlic 3) cumin tofu 4) kung pao tofu and 5) eggplant in garlic sauce for the table, and then ask โhello is this not delicious??โ every 30 seconds ๐
This is a bit of late reply. I have tried to take some of my family members and friends to vegetarian restaurants. Sometimes they are open to try it. Sometimes they outright refuses to go because โit is a waste of moneyโ even if I promise to pay. I guess the lesson is that there no method that works universally. We just got to try different methods on different people.
Definitely! When I went vegan, I prompted someone I know to look up how dairy cows are treated (not well), and they changed their diet quite a bit in light of that. So I have seen downstream effects personally. Caveat that I am annoying and prone to evangelize.
And if i were going to promote one definitely-not-scalable intervention to one very-hard-to-reach-population, I would take a bunch of die-hard meat eaters to Han Dynasty on the upper west side of Manhattan and order 1) DanDan noodles without pork 2) pea leaves with garlic 3) cumin tofu 4) kung pao tofu and 5) eggplant in garlic sauce for the table, and then ask โhello is this not delicious??โ every 30 seconds ๐
This is a bit of late reply. I have tried to take some of my family members and friends to vegetarian restaurants. Sometimes they are open to try it. Sometimes they outright refuses to go because โit is a waste of moneyโ even if I promise to pay. I guess the lesson is that there no method that works universally. We just got to try different methods on different people.