Welcome to the forum! This is indeed a super important, as well complicated question. I don’t have a confident opinion, but thought I would point out some potential cruxes that might help you to form a view on this!
The specific type of the animal that people are eating is going to be pretty important, see this video for a quick summary as to why. Reading and thinking about moral weights is going to be relevant here too.
How would you balance suffering caused to animals vs. reducing poverty by purchasing products vs. harm caused by the emissions of such products. Huh this is a difficult one, perhaps reading “Important Between-Cause Considerations: things every EA should know about” can offer a start into thinking about this.
How bad do you think it is if a e.g. chicken is killed if they had a decent life? Reading about population ethics will be relevant here. On specifically the badness of death, I think HLI has a very good article that shows how different theories think about this.
There is probably a bunch of other considerations that don’t come to mind at the moment, but hope some of these will be useful!
Also I just wanted to mention that I know a couple of EAs who are originally from Pakisan but live in Hungary, as well as a person living in Pakistan—if you would like to be connected to them ping me a private message!
Hey DoGooder!
Welcome to the forum! This is indeed a super important, as well complicated question. I don’t have a confident opinion, but thought I would point out some potential cruxes that might help you to form a view on this!
The specific type of the animal that people are eating is going to be pretty important, see this video for a quick summary as to why. Reading and thinking about moral weights is going to be relevant here too.
How would you balance suffering caused to animals vs. reducing poverty by purchasing products vs. harm caused by the emissions of such products. Huh this is a difficult one, perhaps reading “Important Between-Cause Considerations: things every EA should know about” can offer a start into thinking about this.
How bad do you think it is if a e.g. chicken is killed if they had a decent life? Reading about population ethics will be relevant here. On specifically the badness of death, I think HLI has a very good article that shows how different theories think about this.
There is probably a bunch of other considerations that don’t come to mind at the moment, but hope some of these will be useful!
Also I just wanted to mention that I know a couple of EAs who are originally from Pakisan but live in Hungary, as well as a person living in Pakistan—if you would like to be connected to them ping me a private message!
Thank you, grego, for the resources. I’ll make sure to go through the links and carefully consider the information.