This comment made me very sad. I’ve gone back and forth on writing a full response (or standalone post) on why I find Elizabeth’s posts so troubling, so thank you for giving me the push I needed to invest the effort into doing so. For now, I’ll say: From a health standpoint alone, there are many drawbacks to eating salmons and there are alternative methods to improving whichever health concerns that led you to eat them. From an ethics standpoint, eating aquatic animals is among the most harmful choices you can make. If EA motivated you to stop eating animals to begin with, I hope you reconsider this decision.
I would love to hear more on the drawbacks, alternatives, and why you believe those alternatives are perfect substitutes.
On the Faunalytics page the first harm graph refers specifically to farmed fish, and doesn’t distinguish elsewhere. Did you mean to refer to farmed fish or all fish?
tbh I also found that website quite hard to navigate, but I think “Top 10 Impactful Products For Individual Consumers” is probably the most relevant graph on that site for the question of which individual diet choices to make to reduce animal suffering.
Though I don’t really understand where salmon fits on that graph either, as it has several different fish options and salmon is not clearly any of them.
This comment made me very sad. I’ve gone back and forth on writing a full response (or standalone post) on why I find Elizabeth’s posts so troubling, so thank you for giving me the push I needed to invest the effort into doing so. For now, I’ll say: From a health standpoint alone, there are many drawbacks to eating salmons and there are alternative methods to improving whichever health concerns that led you to eat them. From an ethics standpoint, eating aquatic animals is among the most harmful choices you can make. If EA motivated you to stop eating animals to begin with, I hope you reconsider this decision.
I would love to hear more on the drawbacks, alternatives, and why you believe those alternatives are perfect substitutes.
On the Faunalytics page the first harm graph refers specifically to farmed fish, and doesn’t distinguish elsewhere. Did you mean to refer to farmed fish or all fish?
tbh I also found that website quite hard to navigate, but I think “Top 10 Impactful Products For Individual Consumers” is probably the most relevant graph on that site for the question of which individual diet choices to make to reduce animal suffering.
Though I don’t really understand where salmon fits on that graph either, as it has several different fish options and salmon is not clearly any of them.
It looks like they’re multiplying suffering x abundance, otherwise I’m at a loss for why breaded shrimp would cause more suffering than unbreaded
Yes I think so. I think “Top 10 Impactful Products For Individual Consumers” section is most relevant (apologies I can’t seem to attach a screenshot).
Is the standalone post finished? I’d love to read it when it is.