I’ve just read through the comments on meteuphoric.
I think arguments about the knock-on effects of vegetarianism/veganism are irrelevant if the charity you believe is the most effective happens to be a vegan outreach charity. The same multiplier would apply to both sides of the comparison.
I think I’m supportive of the case that pain is greater in magnitude than 1 QALY/year. How bad we view pain must surely be anchored to how motivated we are to avoid it. In the ancestral environment, if you’re injured do you experience maximal pain for substantially less time on average than it reduces your lifespan? If so I’d expect us to experience a normal year as good and a year of pain as very, very bad.
I agree that the important factor is reducing meat rather than eliminating it entirely. Eliminating that last percent might be quite costly and not worth the “I’m 100% meat free” signalling points.
I didn’t know about creatine. That sounds like important information.
I agree about inconvenience budgets being tricky. Avoiding meat could be a good way of building up your tolerance to inconvenience (although admittedly it’s not usually marketed that way). It’s a good Schelling point (allowing free choice over which inconvenient thing you choose allows you to choose the least actually inconvenient one), and there are social supports for it.
I’ve just read through the comments on meteuphoric.
I think arguments about the knock-on effects of vegetarianism/veganism are irrelevant if the charity you believe is the most effective happens to be a vegan outreach charity. The same multiplier would apply to both sides of the comparison.
I think I’m supportive of the case that pain is greater in magnitude than 1 QALY/year. How bad we view pain must surely be anchored to how motivated we are to avoid it. In the ancestral environment, if you’re injured do you experience maximal pain for substantially less time on average than it reduces your lifespan? If so I’d expect us to experience a normal year as good and a year of pain as very, very bad.
I agree that the important factor is reducing meat rather than eliminating it entirely. Eliminating that last percent might be quite costly and not worth the “I’m 100% meat free” signalling points.
I didn’t know about creatine. That sounds like important information.
I agree about inconvenience budgets being tricky. Avoiding meat could be a good way of building up your tolerance to inconvenience (although admittedly it’s not usually marketed that way). It’s a good Schelling point (allowing free choice over which inconvenient thing you choose allows you to choose the least actually inconvenient one), and there are social supports for it.